Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 256, Decatur, Adams County, 30 October 1914 — Page 1

Volume XII. Number 256.

ALLIES GAIN GROUND AFTER SEVERE FIGHT Germans Are Forced To Retreat On AcAccount of Territory Being Flooded by Broken Dykes.

| ATTACK ODESSA I Much Amcricn Property Destroyed by Turks in Bombardment on Town. ■ A BITTER DENIAL I Made by Germans of Reported Invasion of Portugese . Possessions. Paris, Oct. 30 —(Special to Daily ■ Democrat) —Sweeping claims of sub- ■ stantial gains by the allies in the hat- ■ tiefield of the north featured this aft- ■ ernoon’s statement. The Belgians, it ■ vas stated, have cut the dykes and ■. flooded the region of the lower Yser. ■ This was followed by a violent canI nonading from both the French and I Belgian entrenchments and the GerI mans have been forced to the nortli. I The allies are also declared to be adI vancing near Ypres. The Germans I tried a violent counter attack against I the British near Laßassee, but were | repulsed after hand to hand fighting I in which their loss was heavy. The I British at the end of this fight were I able to regain much ground previousI ly lost. The German loss is said to | have been heavy. At other points along I the battle line, the statement says, the French are advancing. — Washington, Oct. 30 —(Special to ; Daily Democrat) —Odessa was bomt barded last night and American propI erty destroyed, according to the state department's dispatch from the Petrograd charge today. This information was based on the report from the American counsel at Odessa. The amount of property destroyed was not stated. It was assumed by officials here that the bombardment was made : by the Turks. Berlin, Oct. 30— (Special to Daily Democrat) —A bitter official d nial was issued today of the report made public at Lisbon that the German troops have invaded the PortugeseAfrican possessions of Angola. Chicago, Oct. 30 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Wheat jumped from l%c[ " to 2%c at the opening of the board of trade today on the face that Turkey has entered the European war. Wheat leaders believe that yesterday's enormous demand came from sources already advised of Turkey’s action. Paris, October 30 —(Special to the Daily Democrat) —Optimism ruled supreme in military affairs today. The official report of fighting from the frontier told of the gains of the allies. At no point apparently are the Germans able to make any headway. The fighting has materially slackened. This is due to the failure of the German reinforcements who have reached the frontier to take part in the fighting. But it is believed that they are planning a new assault ! *\not only in the north near Lille, but also on the right wing from Alsace Lorraine. Whitesbay, Eng.. Oct. 30—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The hospital ship Rohilla, enroute for Belgium with a party of Red'Cross nurses and hospital supplies is a total wreck off this point. The second officer managed to get. off a life boat and brought the nurses to land, but eighty members of the crew and some passengers arc clinging to the bow of the wrecked vessel, which is still fast on the rocks. It is feared that all must be lost, as the weather is so heavy that life boats cannot live in the sea and the wreck is too far off to be reached with life lines. The coast guards are standing

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ready to put out to the vessel on the 1 first sign of weather improvement. - SUIT AGAINST ROBERTS. Terre Haute, Oct. 30 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—C. J. Richards, republican county chairman, today filed suit against Mayor Donn Roberts and others, including the election commissioners, asking for a restraining order preventing 2,000 alleged falsely registered men from voting Tuesday. With Roberts are named Police Chief Holler, his assistant, Nugent, Joseph Jeffers and others. C. E. Irwin, progresive chairman, this afternoon filed an injunction suit against Roberts alleging that there were 742 falsely registered in ten precincts. He alleges that there were 256 false registrations in one precinct. <, ... ■ - SECURE THE CONTRACT. Washington, Oct. 30 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Dunlap & Co., Columbus. Ohio, are the lowest of twelve bidders for the construction of the Portland. Indiana postoffice building. They bid $41,500 on limestone and $43,751 on sandstone. o GAVE HIMELF UP. Terre Haute, Oct. 30—(Special to Daily Democrat) —W. H. Shakly, 45, a glass blower, gave himself up at the county jail saying that he was a raving maniac, saying that he shot and killed his wife and gouged her eyes out. Investigation proved that his story was true. Shaky had been drinking heavily for some time) , — o-————— —- RECEIVES JAIL SENTENCE. Cleveland, Oct. 30—(Special to the Daily Democrat)—J. M. H. Fredericks, Cleveland' spublic school superintendent. was today sentenced to ten days in jail and a fine of SSOO for contempt of court in dismissing six teachers who were active in forming a teachers' union. He had disregarded the court’s injunction. This is the first time that a school superintendent has been given a jail sentence for this cause) The sentence was the maximum. FOR FORTY YEARS Mr. and Mrs. Anthony ! Wertzberger Experience Joys and Sorrows OF LIFE TOGETHER Anniversary Celebrated Yesterday at Old Home Place —A Reunion. Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Wertzberger, prominent residents of northeast of the city, yesterday celebrated their fortieth wedding anniversary. A reunion of their children was held at that time and the day was given over to pleasure. There were cards and other games, music and a fine feast at noon. Mr. and Mrs. Wertzberger have spent their entire married life on the farm on which they now reside and the reunion at the old home place was one enjoyed to the utmost by all. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kintz and family, Mr. and Mrs. Jared Reed and child, and Mr. Reed’s father. William J. Reed, all of Fort Wayne; Mr and Mrs. s ßarney Wertzberger and family of this city. > , Mrs. H. S. Michaud and daughter, t Florine; Miss Meshberger and Mrs. . Wilson Lee spent the afternoon in Ft. ; Wayne.

Decatur, Indiana. Friday Evening, October 30, 1914.

MEETING TONIGHT I Judge Smith Will Bring His Message to the Voters of Decatur Tonight. AT COURT HOUSE Adair Closed Tour of County Last Night—Several Good Meetings Held. Judge David E. Smith will speak at the court house this evening, closing the speaking campaign in this city for the democrats. The past four or five weeks have been busy ones for tlie speakers and they have visited every section of the county, explaining the various issues. Much lias been said and written about Judge S|iith and his speech, and tonight you will have the chance to hear him if you wish to. If you are interested in the questions being discussed in this campaign you should hear the judge. Congressman Adair closed the second day of his tour of the county with monster meetings at Geneva and Berne last night. He spoke at Geneva at 6:30 and was followed by Judge Smith. The hall was packed and the audience enthusiastic. At Berne the crowd was large and hundreds of voters cheered the congressman. John Cl Moran and Will Hammell were the speakers at a big meeting at Peterson and Dore B. Erwin and J. F. Snow at Monmouth. Both meetings were well attended and the reports of conditions are excellent. PLUCKY WOMAN Chases Burglar Who Says He Was Edward Hensel —Came FROM ADAMS COUNTY Near Monroeville He Said— Fort Wayne Woman Captures Him. The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette says: “Surprising a burglar at work in her home, 1104 Liberty street, at 3:20 o'clock yesterday afternoon, Mrs. William Berning, as pretty and plump as she is plucky, gave battle to the intruder and when he escaped from the house she pursued, catching him repeatedly to have him break away from her again, and it was only after an excitnig chase, extending two blocks, across lots and through alleys before William Smith, a driver for the Maumee Coal company, came to her assistance and the thief was captured. “The burglar, who gave his name as Edward Hensel, and says he came here recently from Monroeville, Adams county, had Mrs. Berning's jewelry in his pockets—three bracelets, a lavelier, a breast pin and five rings and a purse containing sl. All this was recovered and will be returned to Mrs. Berning after Hensel's trial. “Mrs. Berning was absent from about two hours, visiting her sister-in-law, Mrs. Clarence Berning, on Erie street. When she came back she noticed that the rear window of the residence was open, and quietly unlocking the back door, she tip-toed into the house and saw a man standing before the sideboard in the dining room, rifling the drawers. She sprang upon the fellow but he eluded her clutch and ran out the front door, which he had opened in preparation for just such a hurried exit. Mrs. Berning followed and catching up with him again sought in vain to hold the fellow, who is much larger and stronger than she. This was repeated at intervals during the chase until the coal company’s yards were reached by a circuitous route and Smith helped her hold the man until the, patrol wagon arrived and Lieutenant Bevelheimer placed the prisoner under arrest.” u — “We will be there with lard in our hair and ears pinned back." Make this your slogan for the Municipal Hallowe'en party Saturday evening.

WILL OPEN TOMORROW. The Home billiard hall located in the building formerly occupied by the Simeon Hain meat market, second door east of the Murray hotel, will open its doors for the first time tomorrow, to the public. The new place of business is owned by Ralph Miller, formerly proprietor of the West End restaurant, and Tony Hackman, for several years connected with Charles Elzey in the shoe business. Both of these young men have proven their ability as business getters and hustlers and the future of the Home billiard hall is a success. Four pocket billiard tables and one regulation billiard table have been erected and in addition a full line of cigars, candies, cigaretes and other tobaccos will ‘be carried. Tlie business room has been repapered, furnace installed and all modern conveniences placed therein to make a < omfortable place to spend an hour or so for amusement. o MANY BIG PRIZES To Both Children and Adults Will be Given in the Hallowe’en Parade. SATURDAY EVENING Public Invited to Come and Help the Civic Improvement Society. The classification of the many big prizes offered for the masqueraders in the big Hallowe’en parade Saturdayevening has been made by the committee of the Woman’s Civic Improvement society under whose auspices the party is given. Prizes will be given for both children and adult masqueraders. In the children's department, about eight prizes will be given. These will be for the prettiest and for the most comical. In the adult’s department there will be three classifications and about eight prizes given for each classification, for the most ridiculous, for the most antiquated and for the cleverest. All those who wish to take part in the parade should meet at the Judge J. T. Merryman corner at Marshall and Second streets, at 7 o’clock, sharp, Saturday evening. Numbers will be pinned on the masqueraders _and by these they will be identified in the final judging. The parade, starting at the corner of Marshall and Second streets, will go south on Second street to Madison street, thence west to Third, passing before the judges at the Wear-U-Well shoe store, corner of Third and Madison streets. The parade will then continue south to Court street, east to Second, then south to Winchester, east on Rugg, then north to Second street, and then to Madison again, passing before the judges twice. The awarding of the prizes will take place immediately after the parade. The parade will disband at the Hotel Murray' corner where the society has arranged for the Hallowe'en party’s headquarters. -The many attractionnamed heretofore will be in order there. There will be bon fires, refreshments of all kinds, fishing ponds, fortune tellers’ booths, vaudeville and other features of entertainments. All those who have donations for tin fish pond are requested to leave them at the home of Dr. W. E. Smith, or in charge of Miss Genevieve Smith. The picture shows have been most liberal in the matter of donations in this department. All those who have contributions to make to the fish pond, will be gladly received. The chairmen of the committees of the society will meet this evening at 7 o’clock with Miss Betty Boyers, president of the association, when the final plans for the big event of tomorrow evening will be made. Everybody should come to the Hallowe'en party and help the civic league in its good work. UNCLE HEZEKIAH OBSERVES. A wumun nevur brings so much wrath down upon her own head as when she says something nice to a lot of women about another wumon. —o — The Rebekars will give a masquerade social at the 1. O. O. F. hall this >vening. Be sure to come. The admission is ten cents. There will be fortune telling, “The Mysterious Family,” games and refreshments.

PUTS ON EMBARGO G. R. 4 I. Railroad Stops the Shipment of Sugar Beets Until Their TRACKS ARE CLEARED Over 70 Cars a Day Coming in and Two Switching Crews on the Job. Because of the exceptionally heavymovement of sugar beets into the local factory of the Holland St. Louis Sugar company and which has caused the sidetracks on all three railroads entering the city to become congested, making the regular switching almost an if\'ossibility, the G. R. & I. railroad has placed an embargo on beets and which will hold good until the two switching crews, now working night and day, can relieve congested conditions. Hundreds of cars are arriving in Fort Wayne over the C. H. & D. and Wabash railroads and are being accepted only M'lhe cars are unloaded at the local factory and removed. An average of fifty cars a day are being unloaded at the factory, but additional cars are coming in at the rate of seventy-five and eighty. About 17,000 tons of beets have been used thus far in the campaign, and this is estimated at approximately one-third of the year’s yield. Operations have never been running so smoothly at the large plant before, however, and it is thought that by next Wednesday the congested condition will be remedied and that the embargo will be lifted by the railroad. The capacity of the plant is 800 tons every twentyfour hours and at this rate it will require only four or five days to remove the beets now in the city on the sidetracks. The sugar beet crop this year has been a bumper one, and every man connected with it. especially the growers, are highly satisfied. o- ' FUNERAL HELD TODAY. A change was made in the funeral arrangements for Mrs. Edward Kirchner, the funeral being held this afternoon at 1 o’clock in j ead of tomorrow. The arrival of the son from Alabama sooner than was expected was the cause of the earlier date. A number of democrats from this city are planning to attend the Marchall celebration in Fort Wayne tomorrow evening. Vice President Marshall will deliver a speech at the Majestic theater in the evening, and there will be a big torch-light procession. TREATED_RUDELY Women Complain of Annoyance from Small Boys on Hallowe’en OF PRIOR YEARS Masked Women Enroute to Parties Given Chase by Small Boys. Ladies of the city who are contemplating masking for Hallowe'en suggest that some warning be given small boys, or precaution taken, insuring fredom in pasing through the streets without being molested. On several occasions in prior years, parties of masked ladies enroute to club or other social masquerades, were set upon by bevies of small boys, also masked, and treated very rudely. Tv, nips and apples and shoes were thrown at the ladies, their hats and masks and cloaks grabbed and pulled and very nearly torn off. The ladies, many of them nearly in tears, finally took to sprinting, with the small boys running after them, and in some cases it was only by seeking shelter in nearby houses that they evaded the tormentors. In many cases it was a sorrylooking lot of masked women that reached the party, real tears running down their faces.

OLD SWITCH ENGINES. Yesterday afternoon in one of the eastbound freights over the Erie three old, out of date switch engines, which the writer was told were being sent to the city of Meadville, Pa., to be used on a private road, passed through this city. They were of the very early type of switch engines, their numbers being 1321, 1322 and 1329.—Contributcd. 0 —■ - TO HOLD SALE. In order that the estate of the late Mrs. Cecelia Ehinger might be closed and each one interested therein receive their distributive share, tlie household furnishings and the like will be sold at auction at tlie residence at 520 Nuttman avenue, on Wednesday, November 4. by tlie administratrix, Mrs. Ida Ehinger Salisbury. A number of useful and valuable articles will be sold. You are Invited to attend. A SPIDER S BITE Causes Trouble for Loren Lake, Custodian of the Library. HAND IS SWOLLEN From Bite of Poisonous Insect—Was Large Yellow Spider. Loren Lake, custodian of tlie library, is suffering much from the bite of a poisonous spider. Mr. Lake was at tlie library attending to some of his duties there, when l e felt a sharp, stinging sensation between the knuckle and first joint of the fourtli finger of his right hand. Looking, he saw a large yellow spider on his hand. He thought very little of the sting but applied some simple home remedies. Yesterday the hand began to swell and became very painful and he visited a doctor. is going to the wrist and arm, and he may be in for quite a siege of trouble. LISTEN TO THIS, DAUGHTER. The Monroe Reporter says: “Listen, daughter. Whenever a town girl gets too proud to marry a man witli 100 acres of land and twenty red pigs just because lie w firs blue jeans and can’t tell the tango from a slow gin rlckey, you can know as a fact that she will either die an old maid or marry a $6 a week clerk with a head full of ozone and only one of hole proofs. We would rather see you hooked up to some fellow who wears 49-cent overalls and who knows when to hit tlie top of the market than to be yoked up to some Cuthbert who plays the mandolin, smokes cigarettes, and lives off his father’s pension. Still there's no accounting for taste. That’s why they are establishing courts, domestic | relations here and there.” o-— ——-——— A THREE-CORNERED ROW In Which Husband, Wife and Mother-in-law Figure. With her two-months-old babe in her arms, Mrs. Frank Johnson, formerly a Miss Ritter, herself little more, than 1 a child, sought the officers this morn- 1 ing and made complaint that her husband, who is old enough to be her fa 1 ther, had kicked her. The affair grew ' out of a three-cornered family rumpus, j The Frank Johnsons reside witli his j mother, Mrs. Mary Ann Johnson. As two women find one house rarely conducive to family peace, this was no exception. The young Mrs. Johnson ad mitted to having struck her mother-in-law and when the husband and son came home, he tried to make amends by kicking his wife. A charge of assault and battery was filed in the mayor’s court against Johnson, but what will be done is not decided. The officers told them to go home and patch up the row. — O , — K. OF C. NOTICE. Important meeting Monday, October 2nd. The new officers will take their offices at this meeting. Come and give them a good start. G. K. Real estate transfers: James H. Tumbleson et al. to William M. Kelly, lots 1, 2. 3, 698, 699, 170, Decatur. $4,000. Mary Laisure et al. to Nelson C. Hayes, lot 2, Williams, $125.

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IS A BIG BOON To Postal Savings in This Country is the War in Europe. A BIG INCREASE In Receipts—Local Department Making Steady Gains. Tlie war in Europe is proving a big boon to postal savings in this country. From tlie very day hostilities opened across tlie seas postal savings receipts began to increase by leaps and bounds and withdrawals fell off, 'a result quite contrary to the predic- ' lions of many well informed persons i who, in their imagination, saw lines of feverish depositors at postoffice pay i windows anxious to again return their savings to the boot-leg and body-belt I depositories whence they came before ! intrusted to Uncle Sam. But the forecasters failed to reckon on the absolute confidence of the American citizen, regardless of the flag that first met his eyes, in tlie ability and purpose of the government to carry out its oh ligations, not only among the i|itions of the earth, but with the humblest citizen of our land. I Two important results have follow- ■ ed: thousands of people, largely of for- ; eign birth, accustomed to send their savings abroad, are now patrons of our postal savings system: and enor- ! Inoue sums of actual cash have been released for commercial uses among our own people at a time when the need for every available dollar is pressing. I The growth of the postal savings ’n the United States has been steady and healthy and the system has filled an important gap between the tin-can depository and the factory paymaster. On July L when affairs were running smoothly here and abroad and the transmission of money across the Atlantic was safe and expeditious, there was approximately $43,000,000 of postal savings standing to the credit of about 388,000 .depositors. Since then 'over $10,000,000 of Geposits have been added and the number of depositors has increased enormously. The unprecedented gain is the more striking when it is considered that the net gain in the last three months is larger than the gain for the entire fiscal year 1914. Scores of offives have done more postal savings business since the war has been going on than was done by them during the previous existence of the service. New Y ork I Ity alone made a gain in September of more than a million. while Brooklyn showed a relatively big increase. Chicago reported a larger gain in the past three months than for the previous twelve months. More than 7.000 new accounts were opened during the period, bringing tlie number of depositors in that citv up to over 21.000. The unexpected Increase in postal savings business has not only added greatly to the general administrative duties of the system, but has brought up many new and interesting problems which have called for the careful consideration of Postmaster General Burleson and Governor Dockery, third assistant postmaster general. But their task has been lightened somewhat by the promptness of depository banks in furnishing additional security to meet the abnormal deposits. A number of the very largest banks in the country, which have heretofore declined to qualify as depositories for nostal savings funds, are now among the eager applicants for them. The United States postal savings branch office at the Decatur postoffice is making steady gains in deposits. Persons wishing to make deposits will call at the post office, where full information will be given regarding postal savings. o — At a meeting of the Northern diocese of the Catholic churches this week, some shifts have been made, that are of interest to the members of the church in this vicinity. Rev. John Biederniann, formerly of St. Catherine’s church in the Nix settlement, who lias been located at Sheldon, Allen county, has been given charge of tlie Bluffton church. Rev. Welch, who has been at Bluffton, has been transferred to Arcola, and Rev. Edward Mungovan. well known in this city, has been sent to Valparaiso, leaving for that city Friday. Rev. Keller of Hartford City has also had Montpelier connected with his circuit.