Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 104, Decatur, Adams County, 1 May 1915 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRAT Publish** Every Evenlnf Except Sunday by f - -- - - . — I The Decatur Democrat Company LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rate* Per Week, by carrier 10 cents : Per Year, by carrier 16.00 Per Month, by mall 26 cents Per Year, by mail <2.50 Slugit. Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. entered at the poetofflce In Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. Its May day and some day at that. The summer days are on the way and its time you got busy at cleaning up, painting and doing your spring work. Monday is the last day to pay your taxes. Don't overlook this little bet or you will have to add a ten per cent penalty. President Wilson will stay on the jcb again this summer, watching affairs in this land of peace and plenty, while the other great nations of the world, play at war, destroying property and sacrificing human lives. It seems that the person who does not appreciate the efforts of the great president of this great land, is an unAmerican citien at least. The death of Grandpa Kunkle re moves from this locality, one of the real pioneers. He was nearly nine-ty-five years of age and had lived in this community nearly seventy years. He had helped to build and his fourscore and nearly fifteen years were industriously spent. He was a christ'an man, a splendid citizen, a man among men and his life an example cf righteous living. We believe Decatur can have a gymnasium, a place of amusement for the boys and girls and the young men and women and the older ones too. but it will take some time and some assistance from the people of this community. Remembering that it is the most important work of all, providing a clean place for our people to enjoy themselves in, we ask you only that you have patieneb. Keep on paying your subscription. If you havn’t signed yet, do so at once, and one of these days we will liave on hands a sufficient amount to start the “gumn" in a business way. Imports for March were valued at <158,000,000, which is $30,000,000 less than in the same month of 1914. The imports are now about the same in amount as in the last year of the high tariff. Since July 1, exports have reached the unparalleled total of $1,933,000,000, giving a balance of ttade in our favor of more than , $70,000,000. It seems probable that the balance in our favor for the whole I New I Nifty De Joinville Cross Stripe Neckwear —in a beautiful array of colors and patterns. 50c I W- 1 I THE MYERS-DAILEY 1 COMPANY 1

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fiscal year (to June 30) will not fall far below 3 billion dollars. In th* highest days of high protection the country never had a balance of trade to compare with this. —Current Events. ii DOINGS IN SOCIETY j ♦*♦♦«♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ WEEK'B SOCIAL CALENDAR. Monday Young Women's Bible Club—Cen tral School. Progresstive S. 8. Class —Mrs. C. A. Battenberg. Research Business Meeting—Mrs. J. C. Sutton. Tuesday Presbyterian Missionary—Mrs. C. A. Dugan. Frldav Christiun Ladies' Aid—M.-s. frank Kern. Second Sect. Christian Aid—Mr: George Steele. Saturday Christian Ladies' Bake Sale—Gar office. The Leaders’ Class pastry sale--Bowers Millinery store. No fountain is so small but that heaven may be imaged in its bosom. —Hawthorne. John Falk, the druggist, was handing out cigars today the occasion being the twenty-fifth anniversary o' his wedding. The Presbyterian Woman’s Home and Foreign Missionary society will hold its regular meeting next Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. C. A. Dugan. There will be a good program and a report of the annual convention held ut Elkhart two weeks ago, will be given. A good attendance is desired. The Young Woman’s Bible Class w'll meet next Monday evening at th? high school building. There are now ninety-seven members. Mrs. Emma Daniels is the leader and the lessons are very fateresting. The Research club will meet Monday afternoon with Mrs. J. C. Sutton. This will be the business meeting and the election of officers will take place. Mias Packard of Fort Wayne is a week-end guest of Mrs. Lulu Johnson. Miss Lelah Hensley entertained the members of her dancing class at a picnic today in the Dorwin woods at Monmouth. While the weather was not the ideal weather for a May-day party, it was very pleasant and the little folks enjoyed themselves. Some went out on the 11:30 car while still others enjoyed the walk. There were about twenty in the party. Each member of the class invited a guest. The Men's Bible class of the Evan geiical church, of which C. E Hockei is teacher and L. L. Baumgartner, as sistant teacher, met at the church on Wednesday evening and re-organized The class will secure a charter. The following officers were elected: President, U. S. Cress; vice-president, E. B. Macy; secretary, J. A. Smith; treasurer, H. A. Fuhrman. receTvewarnTng Passengers Leaving New York’on Lusitania Warned to Leave Ship. WILL BE DESTROYED While in Mid-ocean—Ger-mans Make a Strategic Movement in North. New York, May I,—(Special to the Daily Democrat) —Scores of prominent passengers who sailed today on the giant Cunarder Lusitania found anonymous telegrams awaiting them at the pier giving warning that the Lusitania would be sunk on her trip. Alfred G. Vanderbilt was told in one of these that the vessel would be torpedoed. Other pasengers were warned that the vessel would meet some mysterious end. The messages were fol-

lowed up by the circulation by a' number of strangers on the pier by a number of similar warnings. The strangers hurried away as soon as the fact was reported to the Cunarder detective force. None of those on the liner cancelled passage although the activity of the mysterious men and the telegrams made them uneasy, De- ; pite the warnings the ship carried ' the largest number of passengers for ! months. She broke all previous re- [ cords for number of second cabin passengers. Berlin, May I—(Speciall—(Special to Dally Democrat) —Announcement by the war office of the new operations . against the rich Baltic Russian provinces came as a joyous surprise tc. Germans. Nothing hud been permitted to leag regarding the movements. Although judging from the fact that . the troops were sixty miles away from Momell, the march must have started several days ago. It was • pointed out that Szawle, the point where the fighting now is preceding, is east of the railway line from Kowno to Kilna, points which in the opinion of German experts are essential to ■ the protection of the Russian position on the Vistula and Warsaw. The fact - that the Germans could penetrate this far without encountering opposition is freelv commented on here arshow’ing that the Russian outpost? are not any beter than they were fa the Russo-Japanese war. Constantinople, May 1. — (Special to Daily Democrat) —The Turkish offi- - cial statement reviewing the opera- . tions in the Dardanelles claim the land batteries have sunk a Britisii destroyer, badly demaged two French cruisers. Jean find D’Arc and the Brit- ? ish battleships Majestic and Vengean--1 ce. It also declared one British trans- ,- port had been driven on shore and several sail boats sunk. 1 London, May 1. —(Special to Daily •’ Democrat) —Further fighting of the ■ heaviest character was reported today on the Gallipoli penensula where the ' British forces are making every effort ' to cut off the Turks from the main land. Special despatches say that fa '■ a series of night assaults the enemy were driven further inland. The en tire allied fleet is cooperating with the land parties. Meanwhile the • French are advancing on the Asiatic ■ side. The admiralty has no confirm ‘ ation of the Turkish claims that sev ■ eral of the allied ships have been dis abled. It was stated however that i’ would not be surprising if some o ■ the ships had been hit as they ar< steaming well within range of the fort in order to bring their secondary ’ batteries into play. FARMER RELIEVED I Os $8 or $10 —Gypsy Women Take i‘ from Trousers’ Pocket. A band of gypsies camping in Prebltownship were responsible for the calling of Sheriff Ed Green, Deput. L. D. Jacobs and Marshal Melchi t the scene about noon today. Twc gypsy women visited the Christ A Fushrman farm and going to the barn on their pilfering and fortun telling excursions succeeded by dex trous sleight of hand performance t< extract between eight and ten do lars from Mr. Fuhrman's trouser.pockets. Mr. Fuhrman strenuousl. objected and the officers were called He was unable to identify which wc man took the money and as the sur was made up among the gang an' returned to him, on arrival of th officers, no arrests were made. WOMAN MAYOR IN OFFICE Warren, 111., May 1 *L£jiPcial to th Daily Democrat) —Mrs. A. R. Canfield Warren s 74 year old mayor, today or ened the first meeting of the city coun sei under her administration with : prayer by the Rev. Clarence Miller pastor of the Baptist church. Hereaf ter, prayer will be a feature of al meetings. Two applications for pool room licenses were refused by tin mayor, who declared she would ri< Warren of these places where young men loiter away their time. All but two cf Mayor Canfield's appointments were rejected, — o REFUSE SALOON LICENSES. The city council today took action that will soon make Danville saloonless. The vote was one whether the council should refuse licenses to applicants. In two recent elections Danville has had wet majorities.

HAVE ROUGH TIME. Shamokin, Pa.. May I—(Special to Daily Democrat)-—Two masked men held up a car on the Shamokin A Gilberton railroad when it reached the pass in the mountains at eleven o'clock today, had a rough time of it. Two of the passengers grappled one of the bandits, but the other held them at bay until his partner got free, then another passenger grappled the l.hndit, and the bandits knocked him out, got $4,500 and escaped. The passenger recovered, ran the car up the mountain, ran It down again and turned in an alarm. The men were captured. COURT HOUSE NEWS. The cases of Waldo E. Brushwiller e; al vs. Loyal Weeds and of John P. Baker vs. John P. Brown were dismissed and costs paid. A portion of the evidence in the Myers-Johns case venued here from Allen county, was heard yesterday and the cause continued until Tuesday. May 4. A jury and Judge D. E. Smith are hearing the oase. A petition by Samuel H. Teeple, administrator of the Ottis O. Juday estate, to assign the J. Wes Watson lease, was sustained. n o ABOUT THE SICK. Miss Margaret Moran and niece, Margaret Moran, went to Ft. Wayne to call on the former's sister and niece, Mrs. P. K. Kinney and Miss Bertha Kinney, both of whom are ill. Q AUTO RACE ENTRIES CLOSED. Indianapolis, May 1, —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The entries for the five-hundred mile auto race to be held at the Indianapolis speedway on Decoration day closed this evening with an even forty cars entered. Many new cars as well as some of the old avorites are on the list and this years race promises to surpass any held at the speedway, both for styeed and class. o FOR RENT —Two houses. Each part ly modern. On brick street. First class condition No deadly railroads tc ■ross. City and soft water. Good neighbors. Good gardens, no chickens three blocks from the court house Call phone 65 or inpuire at 402 Mercer Ave. 100t3 FOR TRADE—Good five passenget automobile for a vacant lot. inquire of Erwin & Michaud. 101t6 FOR RENT —A middle room in th< Gregory building at the corner ol Madison and Third streets. Inquirt >f Jesse Sutton, agent. 82t -’OR SALE —Full blooded Black Or pington and White Leghorn chick ens; also five Indian Runner ducks Phone 438.—Ge0. F. Flanders. 96t? MALE HELP WANTED—Railway mail clerks, carriers wanter. Good ay, life positions. Pay for instruc ion after you receive position. Apply Liberty Institute, Rochester, N. Y.

SCOWS AND A BE LAVAL will make more money than four cows with “gravity setting” IF YOU HAVE ONLY THREE DON’T LET THE COST or four cows you are mak- worry you. If you want I ing a big mistake if you are De Laval we will be glad to trying to get along without arrange so that you can make a good cream separator. a partial payment when you WE CAN EASILY DEMON- falaS fialYe™ JOHN SPUHLER DECATUR, INDIANA

BY EARLY AUTUMN — (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) seme home and converting it 1,1 0 ‘ gvmnasium, which could be added t as needed and this may be decided upon. If so a campaign for larger contributions will be made. In t meantime it is hoped that those who subscribed to the fund and all other, who will, continue to pay In the money which as stated will he placed ' on interest and the money accounted lor by the committee. Mr. Kirsc i is the treasurer and the funds uil ” | ' carefully guarded and expended only when the committee feels they arc benefittint the young people and meeting the purpose for which it was subscribed. The work is proceeding "lowly but some of these days the thing for which so many have hoped so ’ long, a real "gymn" will be secured. Keep on helping. The committee will meet again next Friday evening. DRAWN TO CLOSE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) : a’'ternoon at two o’clock at the Metho- ’ dlst church in this city. Rev, A. K. ' Mumma of Concord Lutheran church 1 will officiate, interment will be in the Decatur cemetery. NAME MR. STEELE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) j elementary dl tionary for all township 3 schools. They also adopted a school register for all township schools. This is an arrangement, whereby with one stroke, a triple report can be made, for the attendance officer, township trustee and county superintendent, t> showing the exact condition of the ate fairs of the schools. ’ The report of the school census was 1 also received. The totals have not 5 yet been compiled, so no report can | )' be made public at this time. J The matter of the selection of the 3 date, place and speaker for the county 1 commencement was left to County 1 Superintendent E. S. Christen who will decide that next week. 0 VISITS WITH FATHER t . Rev. J. Hunter Myers of Bloomingi ton, 111., arrived very early this morns ing for a visit over the week end with • his father, Rev. W. J. Myers who was • injured in a fall at Geneva recently. Mr. Myers is getting along remarkabi ly well. His sen-in-law and daughter e Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harding of Fort ; Wayne will come tomorrow for a visit. Q. —— 1 BUYS A FORD t Arthur Baumgartner of Rural route 5 was in the city this afternoon and returned to his home with a brand new 1915 model Ford, purchased from the Kalver & Sikes agency in this city, 1 o WANTED —Girl for general house work. Two in family. ’Phone ;39. 85tf I

1 ■ ■ ■?- ■ -W I . . • —I 'S' j MM/ - This store is headquarters for Lav?n Mowers. The season is at hand; the grass is growing rapidly; buy a mower and cut it besot e it gets the start of you. We sell the hgnt-run-in<r smooth-cutting kind and the prices are as light as the running. We also have lawn rakes, lawn hose, and other accessories for keeping the lawn in first-class condition. SchauMig Co. The Hoosier Packing Company is going to run an ice line and will Deliver ice to any part of the City. We think at this time and age that everybody knows thevalue of artifical pure ice complying with the Standard of sanitation. We have a competent and cautious man to deliver the ice and we solict the patronage of every user of ice assuring the best of service that can be given. Yours to Please The Hoosier Packing Co. “‘m- e AGENTS WANTED-One for Yadri B ° ARD AND LODGING ' township in Adams county, to sell , the “New Era Rope Machine.” Ev-’ bp endid rooms ; excellent boatd; ery farmer needs one. A proposition electric lighta > telephone and bath, that will make you big money. A d-i N °' St ' : telephone 758 ' 8 - W dress F. J. McWhinney, Geneva, In J dtana. BOARD AND LODGING. FOR rext-a ,„ K , roM “• able for two. Phone 33” • • “Ptendid rooms; excellent board, 330 Winchester street t e!e< tr ’ c hghts; telephone and bath. ~~ ~ J ~“' l, “- No. 2nd St.; telephone 755. ts. j buggy and carriage r ’ Goodyear Guaranteed Wing Rubber Tire a *1 rT . anri i"i.g United States RUBBER tire 610.50 per SE r ---X general REPAIR work of all kinds DECATUR CMUM WORKS MONROE STREET ‘ - - PHONE 123