Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 129, Decatur, Adams County, 31 May 1915 — Page 2

DA TL YDE MOCRAT PuMlslwto Every Ev«nln| Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rate* Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier $6 00 Per Month, by mall 25 cents Per Year, by mall $2 50 Single Coplea $ cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the Postofficc in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. jj DOINGS IN SOCIETY | WEEKS CLUB CALENDAR. Monday. Afternoon Club —Mrs. C. V. Connell. Tuesday. Presbyterian Missionary—Mrs. John Schug. Thursday. Presbyterian Aid -Mrs. Dale Moses. They Are Just Away. I cannot say and I will not say That they are dead: they are just away. With a cheery smile and a wave ot the hand. They have wandered into an unknown land, Ana left us dreaming how very fair In needs must be since they linger there. And you, O, you who the wildest yearn For the old time step and the glad return — Think of them faring on as dear In the love of there as the love <>f here Think of them still as the same, 1 say, They are not dead: they are just away. —James Whitcomb Riley. Mr. and Mrs. Adam Weis. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Artman and Grandfather Art man were entertained Sunday in a fine way at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alva Baker, west of the city. Mrs. Elizabeth Wynn and granddaughter. Miss Electa Glancy, of South Third street, entertained in " pleasing wav for dinner Sunday, the following ladies: Miss Matilda Sellemeyer. Miss Ruby Miller, Miss Elia Mutschler. Miss Golda Gay and Mias Pearl Purdy. Mrs. Dr. Kremers, mother of W Iliam Kremers, of the Sugar company, is visiting her son and will give a talk at the Presbyterian Missionary meeting Tuesday at the homo of J. IT Schug. South Third street. Mrs. Kremers recently returned from a visit in Hawaii and it is of this interesting country that she will talk. Everybody is invited to be present. The Woman’s Home and Foreign Missionary society of the Presbyterian church will meet Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock with Mrs. John Schug on South Third street. Following is the program, to which all are invited: Devotionals, led by Mrs. Net tie Schrock: business period: vocal solo. Mrs. E. D. Engeler: lesson. “The Child at Play and at 'Work,” Mrs. S D. Beavers; hymn; talk on Hawaii. Mrs. Kremers: piano solo. Miss Michaud. Offering; social hour: mizpali. LION SHIRTS —in all the new summer fabrics— All Silk, Jaquard Silk and Soiesette in an array of beautiful stripe effects—sl.oo to $4.00 —new arrivals in summer neckwear—50c ;'.. | ■ _ THE MYERS-DAILEY COMPANY

AH ladies and their friends are invited to be present al this meeting. PRESIDENT WILSON TO SEND REPLY TOMORROW (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ming. \s a special incitation to m< rchantmen to destroy submarines, < e British government also offered hl di prizes and has already paid such ewards. • “The imperial government, in vi v of these facts, inrubitably known to is unable to regard British mercha d men in the zone of naval operations specified by the admiralty staff of the Germap navy, as 'undefended.' G rman commanders consequently nr- o longer able to observe the custom, -y regulations of the prize law, which they before always ’ Hawed. "Finally, the in .1 governnn ~t must point out ] I " la: ■: t ■ :e Lusitania on its las. trip as on ear’. >r occasions, carried Canadian tro< , s and war material, including no It than 5.400 cases of ammunition late: lied for the destruction -. C the hr e German soldiers who are fulfill their duty with self-sacrifice and I votion to the fatherland's service. "The German government believ s that it was acting in justified selfdefense in seeking with all the means of warfare at its disposal to protect the lives of the soldiers by destroy :;g ammunition intended for the enemy. "The Brittish Shipping comp:-, ly must have been aware of the danger to which the passengers aboard the Lusitania were exposed under the ;e conditions. The company in embarking them, notwithstanding this .t---tempted deliberately to use the lives of American citizens as protection for the ammunition aboard, and acted against the clear provisions of the American law, which expressly prohibits the forwarding of passenc- — on ships carrying ammunition, and provides a penalty therefor. The company, therefore, is wantonly guilty :: the death of so many passengers. “There can be no doubt, according to the definite report of the submarine's commander, which is further confirmed by all other information, that the quick sinking of the Lu Itania is primarily attributable to tiie explosion of the ammunition shipment caused by a torpedo. The Lusitania s passengers would otherwise, in all human probability, have been saved. “The imperial government ccnsid ms the above mentioned facts important enough to recommend them to the attentive examination of the Amerk an government, “The imperial government, while withholding its final decision on the demands advanced in connection wi n the sinking of the Lusitania until receipt of an answer from the Germ-.n Government, feels impelled, in conclusion, to recall here and now, that it took cognizance with, satisfaction of the mediatory proposals submitted Ly the United States government to B rlin and London as a basis for a modus vivendi for conducting tiie maritii ■ 1 warfare between Germany and Grc ;t Britain. The imperial government i y its readiness to enter upon a discussion of these proposals, then demonstrated its good intentions in ann le fashion. The realization of these proposals was defeated, as is well known by the declinatory attitude of o British government. (Signed) “JAGOW." o J. D. HALE IMPROVING. J. 1). Hale, one of tiie civil war , :t---erans, who has always taken a prominent part in tlie annual memorial services of the G. A. R. is today conflnid to his home and bed. and unable to Ve with the others. He has been critic lily ill of blood poisoning growing out of severe burns about his face and head, received in fighting the fir.', which destroyed his and several other cottages at Rome City, a week last Thursday. He is improving, h “ ■ ever, and unless something else s? , in, will recover. This will be good news to all his many friends and relatives. o FLEMINGS HAVE BAD RUNAWAY. Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Fleming and son, Lee, of Root township, figured in a bad runaway yesterday, while driving to Monroeville. Their horse frightened near the Fuelling ebur -h and ran. The buggy was completely demolished, and the occupants thrown out. Both were badly cut about tlie head. Nine stitches were required to dose Mrs. Fleming’s wounds mid three to close the cuts in Mr. Fleming's iiead. The son was uninjured. 0 WANTED—Work to do through the summer. Am willing to do most any kind. Let me iiwlp you. I need money.—Glenn Potts, 1233 Patterson street. 123tf FOR SALE—A House and lot Id a good location, on a brick street. Will consider an exchange on other property. See Henry B. Heller. 85tf

SPEED RECORD 1 IS EXPECTED (CONTINI El) FROM PAGE ONE) tliis and courses In other cities many felt lio was about duo to win. Bob Burman in e. car of that name is another to be counted In. Based on the elimination tests “Howdy" Wilcox lias it on the field He made a lap at the rate of 98.2 miles a minute. DePalma's Mercedes made the next best time with 97.6. Resta’f: Peugeot was tlift-d with 97.7. Cooper's and Anderson's Stutz curs made the next best time with 97.7 and 96.4 a piece. With three Stutz cars among the first five in tlie eliminations, it is easy to see why they are favorite? is the betting. For tlie same reason the Sunbeam team ranks high. Porporato's Sunbeam made 95.1 ranking sixth, and the Sunbeam that qualified with Oldfield at the wheel came seventh with an average of 93.7 n\les an hour. Oldfield was slated for a time to drive tills car but later was crowded out. The third Sunbeam with Grant driving ranked twelfth with 89.2. The cars drew their numbers for tills race as the result of the elimination trials. Wilcox Stutz drew No. i because it made tlie fastest speed. The Mercedes was next speediest and sa on down the line. There were forty-one original enterics for today's race but the speed required to qualify (eighty miles in hour) was too stiff a test for many an ( ] they were eliminated by the wholesale. Others could not get into shape in time and withdrew.. There were forty-one original entoday wiio paryed above all for an American victory. These patriotic should had in mind the fact that the honors for the four past five hundred miles classics were even with two Americans and two foreign cars having won firsts. Dope which is fist favored tlie Peugeots gradually shifted until the Stutz cars were favorites. Winners of the four Speedway events include drivers of two Indianapolis cars. The four winners and their cars are: Ray Harroun with a Morman: Joe Dawson with a Delage. Goux and Thomas were not here today. Thomas lies wounded in France and Goux is connected with tie French army. Troubles in Europe had little effe t on today's race, it cut down slight'y on the number of European racers, but German. French and English cars raced side by side. The German Bufatti tried out the speed*ot the EnglishItalian. Daria Resta v. iTTf liis French Peugeot, and Percy Graham another English driver. There were no German drivers. Other prominent American drivers were Carlson and Rickenbacker. The list of fcreing entries contains famous cars and drivers. They arc. k three Sunbeams, three Peugeots, DePalma’s Mercedes; J. DePalma's Delage and the Bugattix. Tlie race was scheduled for Saturday hut because of tlie condition of the track due to weather conditions it was postponed until today. o — MEN —Our illustrate,'. ■ atalogue explains how we teach barber trade in few weeks, mailed free. Write Moler Barber College, Indianapolis, Indiana. 122t6 LOST —A small, dark brown purse, containing about $3, of which two dollars was in silver and the rest in small change: between Tumbleson grocery and home on North Fifth street. Finder, please leave at this office. 119t3 FOR SALE —Farms in Elkhart county. 178 aches, good prairie farm; SO acres in corn, 44 acres in oats; 0 acres hay. Good improvements. Price, sllO-per acre. 130 acres, 111 mile to market, on car line; good prairie land, good Improvements, good fences. Price, SIOO per acre.— M. H. Miller, Bristol, Ind? 119t2 WANTED —To hire rarm hand by rhe month. Best of reference demanded. Inquire this office. llOtf WANTED —Higli class men to sell trees, shrubs, roses, vines, berry bushes, bulbs, etc. Good wages, permanent, exclusive territory.—Brown Brofiiprs. Nurseries, Rochester, New York. 121-'t3 FOR SALE CHEAP—Good eight-room house; outbuildings, weil, cistern and fruit; best location in the town of Pleasant Mills. See H. O. Davis, Pleasant Mills, or write G. W. Barnett, Red Key, Ind. 126tG CANDELIERS—Big special sale on at the Lawrence Electric Co., for two weeks only. Buy them now. 123t6 P OR SALE —McOeru home, near business section of city, nine large rooms well arranged, bath furnace, good cement cistern. Enquire of A. D. Suttles. at Old Adam-' C< unyt Bank. 101 if LOST —Sometime Saturday, 3 yards of luce, a yard and a half of black velvet and a yard and a half of red ribbon. Please return to this office or to Mrs. Bert Bailor and receive reward. HSt3

LONG YEARS AGO Short Review of Conditions and Critical Times When Fort Sumpter. WAS FIRED UPON By Confederates-Every Eye Was Turned on the Untried President. It was a long-drawn-out spring and vegetation was backward. The very atmosphere was charged with unknown forces. All through the long winter around tlie wood fine in homes, stores, offices and shops the impending conflict was discussed. Lincoln had made his memorable trip from Springfield to Washington. He was inaugurated as president. He was an untried man. He came out of the west where civilization was still in swadling clothes. The new president was discussed by friend and foe. He was the central figure of the time. It was a peculiar spring, the unimproved steets floated in mud. Rickety sidewalks echoed to the tread of heavy boots. Men passed each other with sullen looks. It was a mad period. People expected something but did not know what. Then came the news from Fort Sumpter that tlie proud, high strung, defiant aristocrats of tlie south had fired on the stars and stripes. On April 14, 1861, came the cali of Lincoln for 75,000 men. Ihiblic feeling reached its highest tension. Pillowing the call of Governor Oliver !’. Morton wired the president, pledging 10,000 soldiers from Indiana. A special session of the legislature was called to provide money and means to equip tiie soldiers. Adams county was one of the newest sections of the state. It was emerging out of its pioneer period, its towns were straggling houses along grass-grown roadways. It was not thickly peopled The young men iiad not been lured to the cities. They toiled with their fathers in opening up the new farms. Their free and open lite inured them to hardship. It was before tlie days of tennis and baseball. They found their recreation in felling trees, breaking sod, fishing, hunting and trapping. They were rugged men, good material out of which to make soldiers. These young men came to the towns to hear the news, the fields that were being prepared for corn, were abandoned. They hearkened to the thrilling words of orators, ‘enlisted add were hurried to training camps. We do not know how many sons of Adams county were enrolled in the service of the government but it was a generous contribution. They did grand service in the war of humanity, a war. that gave tlie United States a front place among the nations of the world.. Today, tomorrow, and the follow-, Ing days, the remnants of that once great army will again listen to tlie sound of martial music. With faltering steps they will again march under the folds of the flag they |?fended and will decorate the graves of their comrades v.'ho were fortunate to be buried at home. These were th> men who once Sherman, they rode behind Sheridan, and they carried out tlie battle plans of Grant, Look as they march by on tlie'r holy mission. Lift your hats, men of this generation, to the surviving heroes of the greatest conflict for humanity ever fought, on earth.

VETERAN IS DEAD (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Ark., and thence ti join General Quimby’s expedition on the Yazoo Pass. Almost itnmedi • aftc. its return it joined General Grai army and participated in the battles, ,‘iege and Capture of Vicksburg, Miss.; Champion Hills, in the rear of Vicksburg. Comrade Brock’s company lost over one half ,of its men, killed and wounded. This battle was fought May 16, 1563, and history gives it as one of the decisive battles of the wa r . Its next were the battles of Big Black River and Jackson, Miss. It then went to New Orleans and joined General Banks’ army in Louisiana and the Teche county, and continued in pursuing and fighting till the early spring of 1864, when it joined General Banks’ army at Alexandria, La., and contin-' ued in said compaign till December, 1864, when the comrade’s three years’ service had expired, and hr-was mus ten d out, when he ret (ned ii>-e. During Comrade Brock’s three years". • service his company comrades say, he, was always with his company on the match and on the Skirmish line or, ueXtte,

THE RAINEST MAY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) electrical excitation, which falls annually on and about the tenth to fifteenth of June. Many electrical storms, with the increase of railfall, will pass eastwardly over the country, on and touching the ntnteentli, twentieth and twenty first. Very warm, humid weather on and about the twentieth and twentyfirst. should be regarded as danger signals. The third regular storm period is central on the twenty-fifth, covi ring the twenty-third to tlie twenty-eighth, inclusive. Storms of rain, wind and thunder will be sweeping eastward through the central regions of the country. .—— o— GALLMEYER BABE DEAD. An infant son. aged five months, u 1 William Gallmeyer of Friedlicim, died Saturday afternoon and was buried this afternoon. o NOTICE, G. A. R. AH members of the G. A. R. are requested to meet this evening at 7:30 o'clock to make arrangements to ■>)- tend the funeral of Comrade John Brock, which will be held Wednesday morning. — NOTICE, MEN'S CHORUS. AH members of tlie Men’s chorus are requested to be present this evening at tlie regular practice. Some important business matters will be disposed of. o COURT HOUSE NEWS. Inventory number one, filed by Josiah L. Aspy, administrator of the Ow< n Sapp estate, was approved. FOR SALE —Piano, in first-class condition. Call 'phone 630 or inquire at the Dr. E. Burns residence. 120t3 Fine business room on Second street, one block from court house for rent. Ladge display window. Address “L,” Democrat office. 123t3 One or two general purpose horses for sale cheap. Inquire at Adams County Creamery. 12574 FOR SALE—Sweet potato and yam plants and all othei vegetab'e plants. Inquire at first door west < f Anna McConnell’s store. —Darius Robinson, Mrs. Mike Meibers.* 123t3 FOR RENT —Eight room house on Russell street; modern in all respects. See Walter Johnson, at Decatur Insurance Agency. 'Phone 355 or 360. 124tf WskNTED —An energetic ambitious, active man to establish permanent business. Health and accident insurance. Immediate cash returns and future. Address National Casualty company, Detroit, Mich. 123t3 FOR SALE —Vacuum cleaner. —Mrs. S. J. Haines. 116t3

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