Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 150, Decatur, Adams County, 24 June 1915 — Page 1

Volume XIII. Number 150.

CONCESSIONS WILLJJE MADE Germany's Reply Will Accept Principles of Humanity Demanded in the SECOND AMERICAN Note—Thousands of Men Killed in Fight on Gallipoli Peninsula. By Karl W. Ackerman. ' BeHln, June 24,—(Special to Dally Democrat) —In her reply to the second American note, Germany will make inportant concessions in the interest of those principles of humanity for which President Wilson declared America was contending. This was the positive assurance I received today. Germany may even give assurance that lives of all neutrals will be safeguarded. It is possible the reply may suggest certain distinguishing marks for vessels carrying non-contraband cargoes to assure them against submarine attacks. Chancellor Hollweg desires that Germanys answer go forward as soon as possible. The answer may however be delayed for two weeks but it is hoped that it will renew the feeling * of friendliness between the nations. London, June 24. —(Special to Daily Democrat)—The Finish schooner, Leo 1 has been submarined. The Leo was torpedoed and sunk yesterday in the North sea while enroute to Canada. The crew was allowed to take to the boats. The submarine towed the boats for three hours, until a Danish mail steamer was sighted. The crew was then transferred to a trawler and landed. Paris. June 24, —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Thousands of bodies literally carpeted the sandy slope of Gallipoli penninsula in a seven dav struggle at the Dardanelles, an official eye-witness statement reported today. “The Turkish trenches were piled high with cadavers,” said the statement. “While the allies lost heavily the Turkish losses were enormous. The English entered one trench from the rear and captured 500 prisoners.” "Recounting the fighting from June 1 to June 8, the witness declared that the allies pressed forward from IGO to 400 yards on a front of a mile and one quarter. Petrograd. \'une 24—(Special to the Daily Democrat)—The Russians are retiring from Lemberg in perfect order. North of the city the Slav right wing has attacked the enemies flank, wiping out three companies. In southeast Galacia the Russians have made 1,000 prisoners in a bayonet battle and arc threatening the right flank. Berlin, June 24—(Special to Daily Democrat)—General Von Linslngen’s army has crossed the Dniester noi h of Stanislau and east of Stryj. The Russians were defeated and thrown hack across the river in a fierce battle. Von Linsingen is pressing forward in an effort to cut the lines of communication between the Russian army that retreated from Lemberg end the forces operating around Stanis’au. Washington, D. C., June 24 (Special to Daily Democrat) —The Zapatistas still hold Mexico City, the Carranza junta here admitted today. The junta’s statement confirmed the Galveston story that General Gonzales had delayed an assault because its defenders were entrenched and he wished to spare the people the horrors ol a battle. “It is expected, however,” said the statement, “that when the Zapatistas see the futility of defense they will surrender or evacuate. Supplies will be taken in as soon as conditions permit.” THAIN APPEALS FOR PAROLE. Indianapolis, Ind., June 24 The state board of pardons will conclude it quarterly session today. -Yesterday it heard appeals for parole of the following: Charles Beeson. Madison coujnty, bigamy. John McKay, Elkhart county, grand larceny. Walter Rynearson, Elkhart county, passing worthless checks. George Thain, Adams county, committing illegal operation.

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TICKETS AT THIS OFFICE. Buy your Chautauqua tickets at this ■ office. We have them now, a fresh " supply, all ready for the biggest and best Chautauqua ever given here. Come on nnd get them. The ladies who left them said they didn’t have any idea wc could sell any, for who ever heard of anybody trying to buy anything at a printing office and paying for it, and so we want to fool them. Come in and get your tickets I I ere. We are offering them at these most attractive rates: Children’s tickets, up to twelve years of age, |1.?5 for the season; adults’ tickets, 1 $2.50 for the season. If you wait until the big show opens you will have tc pay more. Get them now and get them here. H\irry, hurry, hurry! o— — — TICKETS ON SALE 1 Consignment Placed in Various Stores and Business Houses in Decatur. BUY THEM NOW And in so Doing You Will Confer a Real Favor on the Busy Committee. The work of selling tickets for the 1915 Chautauqua to be held July 13th to 20th has begun and from now cn ■ until the first day of the big week the men and women in charge of this duty will be good and busy. If you buy now you can secure season tickets for children for $1.25 and adult tickets for $2,50, while if you wait until the advance ticket sale is over, , you will pay $1.50 and $3.00 for them. If you have subscribed for tickets, or if you want them and have not you are requested to get them as soon as possible from any of the business house mentioned below. The sooner you get your tickets the more help it will be to the committee. Tickets can be secured at any of the following places: Old Adams County bank, Teeple, Brandyberry & Peterson. Daily Democrat office, People’s Loan & Trust Co. bank, First National bank, .Winnes shoe store. Holthouse, Schulte & C°clothing store, Holthouse Drug Co.. Boston Store, Smith, Yager & Falk, drugs, M. Fullenkamp dry goods store, Enterprise drug store, Pumphrey’s jewelry store, D. M. Hen -ley jewelry store, Vance & Hite clothing store. The Myers-Dailey clothing store. Callow & Rice drug store, Decatur Herald office, F. M. Schirmcyer, Niblick & Co. dry goods store, Run-yon-Engeler dry goods store, Charles Voglewede shoe store, Gay, Zwick & Myers Co., Peoples & Gerke shoe store, Beavers. Atz and Scherer, Chas. Elzey shoe store, Dr. Roy Archbold. o HAS EXPERT IN CHAARGE. Melvin Liddy, former mechanic in the Nordyke and Mannon company of Indianapolis, and of the Federal and Christy Auto repair shops, also of the capital city, arrived here yesterday and at once took charge of the automobile and repair shop at the Holthouse fireproof garage. Mr. Liddy has been at the automobile business for the past ten years and is an expert at the game. He will supervise the large amount of mechanical work done at the Holthouse garage. — o— WILL PLAY PORTLAND. The Shamrock base ball team will open the season of 1915 next Sunday when they will meet the Portland city team at that place. The boys have been busy for several weeks practicing and getting into shape and they expect to put up a hard fight for the laurels. The Portland team is a winner this year and has been putting up some mighty fast ball. It is expected that a game will be arranged for July 4th in this city. ——o NEW G. R. & I. TIME TABLE The G. R. & I. railroad have issued a new time card to go into effect next Sunday June 27th in which several slight, changes are made. It might be well for you to remember them. The trains north leave Decatur at 12:52 a. m„ 8:06 a. m., and 11:44 p. m. and 3:22 p. m. Going south they leave at 2:03 a. m„ 7:03 a. m., 1:05 p. m„ and at :10 p. m. on Sunday evening, only.

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NEW LODGEROOM 11 ——, 11 Loyal Order of Moose Close „ Deal for Lease on Second Floor Bowers Block. r - !TO MOVE AT ONCE a » Will Have Club Rooms anc Dining Hall in Addition to Dandy Lodge Room. The Loyal Order of Moose, one of i the youngest, but one of the strongest lodges of the city, with 150 members and more coming, will be well located during the next five years. At the end of that time they hope to be ready to build a home of their own. A lease for the second floor of the now Bowers building on Monroe street for a period of five years lias been closed and the same was confirmed by proper action of the lodge at the meeting last evening. The lease dates from July Ist with the pdivilege of moving in as soon as possible. TMis will be done at once and the meeting next Wednesday evening will be held in the new quarters. The Moose have bought a part of the furniture and furnishings from the C. B. L. of 1., who now occupy the room and will add more as they can. It is fitted with a club room, dining room, lodge room, preparation rooms and will be a convenient and complete lodge room that the boys will feel proud of. The room is forty-four feet wide and about 1 three times that long, giving ample room. It is well located and the lodge I members feel they have acted wisely in closing the lease. 1 o DOOR IS SHUT l 1 On Burglar Who Enters Al- I lison Home in Broad Day- i light—Plucky Woman i IS MRS. P. G. HOOPER i i Burglar Escapes Through a 1 Cellar Window and Got 1 1 Away Again. i Mrs. P. G. Hooper proved a plucky little woman yesterday afternoon when she shut the door on a burglar, who had entered the R. K. Allison home on North Second street in broad daylight, between three and four o'clock. The house was left practically fur- 1 nished by the Allisons, who live in Indianapolis, and while nothing of value was left there, except things that could be taken away only by horse and wagon, the man probably entered with the intention of hunting for loot. Mrs. Hooper was picking cherries in her yard which is next door to the Allison home, when she heard a noise and thinking that children had gotten the house, walked over. When she saw the porch door open she noticed that a man was in the house and walking up to the porch shut the door, saying, “I’ve got you now.” The man had gotten into the house however, by breaking a bolt on the cellar door and.then coming up through the cellar into the kitchen and then unbolting the door from the inside and opening the porch door, thus giving him easy exit when he wished. When the porch door, was swung shut on him he got out in the same way he came in—through the cellar. The next step in the case came when Mrs. Hooper saw the man on the outside, standing beside a lilac bush. She began to talk to him, calling him a bold man for breaking in*o people’s houses and asking him what he wanted. He never said a word, but continued walking slowly along the gravel driveway as though he had a perfect right to be there. Mrs. Hooper then noticed C. L. Meibers coming across the street from bis sister’s home, and called to him to help, she having had no opportunity to call the police or for other help. When the burglar saw him coming, he started and ran, Mr. Meibers following in pursuit. The man, however, ■ proved the better sprinter and finally disappeared down the alley at the

IShackley home, whereupon Mr. Melters abandoned the run. An investigation of the house showed that the man had not gotten to the main part. Near the cellar was found 5 a whiskey bottle and a big club, and had Mrs. Hooper approached near enough, he would probably have struck her. The noise which had attracted Mrs. Hooper’s attention was prabobly made by his throwing a water motor , and some other things into a wash- ' boiler. Had Mrs. Hooper had the least inkling that the noise at the house was caused by a burglar, would have taken with her an old rifle which was in the cherry orchard, and could thus have held him at bay until help came. The Allisons were here recently and strongly bolted every door, thinking to thus give better protection against any invaders. , o CASE GOES OVER Attorneys Unprepared on Muncie Case and it Goes , Over Until October. STATUS UNCHANGED I Present Officials Will Continue Until Questions Involved Are Decided. Whether Judge Ellis of the Delaware circuit court was within his 1 rights when he disqualified the regular prosecutor and upon recommendation of the grand jury, appointed a special j prosecutor to conduct the alleged graft cases filed against Mayor Rollin i H. Bunch of Muncie and other officials, including a deputy prosecutor, < will not be determined by the supreme court until its October term. . Attorneys appeared before the court yesterday to present their arguments but when it was determined that they had prepared their cases in haste and could not file their briefs in time ‘o ] permit the court to arrive at a decision before it adjourned tomorAiw for the summer, it was decided to wait until the October term. Twenty days are to be given for the filing of a brief by the plaintiff, then twenty days are to be allowed the <ffi- j fendant to file an answer and an additional ten days will be given for the filing of a reply brief. With the sitnation as it is in the supreme court the status of all the Muncie cases will remain unchanged until the legal question submitted is decided. The grand jury and Judge Ellis (Continued on .’age 2.) o CHECKS READY: r x Townships, Schools, Etc., 1 1 i May Get Their Appor- i I tionment of t c THE SPRING TAXES i i ( What Each Will Receive— The Trustees Making ’ “June Draw.” i I The following townships, city towns t and schools will receive the stated t amount from the spring installment of taxes. This is known as the “June c draw,” and the checks aie ready for 1 the trustees, having been made out 1 by Deputy Auditor Paul Baumgartner, i following his making of the June set- t tlement sheet: » a Union $1774.01 I Root 5100.89 Preble 2861.26 t Kirkland 2163.58 t Washington 4028.09 < St. Mary’s 5622.06 r Blue Creek 3966.25 i Monroe 7544.89 i French 1963.89 t Hartford 3095.27 Wabash 4578.56 i Jefferson 2440.91 t Decatur (schools) 16671.53 s Decatur (library) 995.14 : Decatur (city) 4017.05 i Monroe (town 547.23 Berne (schools) 3976.20 i Berne (town) 3460.55 I Geneva (schools) 2542.72 i Geneva (town) 2746.03

DECATUR HOST V i Will Entertain 1916 Fort Wayne District Epworth League Convention. A CLOSE VOTE Gave it to Decatur Over Garrett—Miss Etta Mallonee z an Officer. Decatur won the privilege of entertaining the Fort Wayne district organization of Epworth League in 1916, winning from Garrett, the only other city that had asked for the meeting, by a vote of 59 to 51. The convention closed last evening with tlie installation of officers and a .consecration meeting conducted by Rev. J. A. Beatty. All the sessions were well attended and enthusiastic and the convention was a success in every way. Miss lona Easly of Fort Wayne was re-elected president. The other officers are: First Vice President—Paul Bachelor, Nevada Mills. Second Vice President —Mrs. Grace Leamon. Pennville. Third Vice President — Etta Mallonee, Decatur. Fourth Vice President — Edith M. Ryan, Coesse. Secretary — Winston Stone, Fort Wayne. , Treasurer—Nora Sleepy, Bluffton. Junior Superintendent—Mrs. T. M. Hill. Fort Wayne. District Editor —Onez Chilcot. Fort Wayne. District Business Editor —Prof. F. G. Cropinger, Fort Wayne. YOURPROBLEMS In Business Instantly Answered in Business Man’s I Encyclopedia i i AT THE LIBRARY \ Answers Problems That Up- , set the Mind and the J Bank Account. i i “If I had known that the Business 1 Man's Encylcopedia contained so much f valuable information, 1 surely would , not have waited this long to read it,” I was what one business man who vis- 1 ited the library recently said. The s books are not just impractical and s high-fllown. but contain tilings of the 1 most practical value to them. The t facts contained in this latest edition 1 of The Business Man’s Encyclopedia t will intantly answer the thousands of t little problems in the day’s work that I upset the mind and the bank account. Consult these books: If you want legal advice on the new federal reserve act, copyright laws, copartnership agreements, con- I tract pointers, bankruptcy regulations, t incorporation papers, trade-mark reg- 1 istration (including countries affected < by war), unfair competition, questions I that a lawyer usually charges $lO to j answer. I If you want business statistics and I definitions, business abbreviations, i Wall street phrases, business terms, a s business directory, Dun’s report of < failures, totals lost and made m s the different lines, business weights 1 and measures, a thousand facts about s business, openings abroad. I If you want to know how to adver- 1 tise, prepare advertising copy, plan i an advertising campaign, select judicious mediums, understand typography, write follow-up letters, handle inquiries, read proof, key advertisements to trace results, buy printing and paper stock, buy engravings. If you want to know how to do a mail order business, add a mail order department to regular sales system, select a good mail order seller, secure agents to follow inquirle, compile a mail order catalogue. If you want to know how to run a retail store, dress windows, circularize customers, keep accounts, buy stock. If you want to know how to sell

r goods, hire salesmen, coach and train beginners, teach salesmanship, keep sales records, use map and tuck system, present a business proposition, cover foreign territories, conduct rm t export business, secure foreign agents. If you want to know how to manage an office, buy office supplies, devise office systems, select accounting records, use card systems, install loose-leaf ledgers, \handle correspoml- , ence filing, keep office records, hire 5 employes. If you want to know how to manage a factory, purchase machinery and . equipment, devise time-keeping and pay-roll systems, outline factory perpetual inventories. If you want to know how to purchase and ship goods, sove money on freight, knoyv the cheapest route ior (Continued on Page 2.) GOODNIGHT SAM Would Have Been Doleful Dirge for Sammy Wyatt and His Automobile BUT FOR BRUSH PILE That Kept His Auto from Backing Over Steep River Bank, “Goodnight Sammy” would have. been the doleful dirge tor Sam Wyatt 1 , and his automobile, but for a big pile , of brush that lay along the fifty-foot : cliff of the St. Mary’s river that serv- ' ed as a catch, preventing Sammy and j i ins auto from plunging down the embankment into the stream. Mr. Wyatt had driven into the en- : try at the Bremerkamp mill et the I river foot of Jefferson street yester- I day afternoon about 4 o'clock, and on | leaving had backed out, the auto push-1 ing nortli towards the Berling produce' plant and then east toward the river. The machine backed further than he ‘ thought and then th ebrakes refused to work Sam said when the rear wheel began to sink into the brush pile that tops the fifty-foot cliff or embankment and Sammy realized that lie had but a margin of escape. He then shut off ( the power, and with the brush! pile acting as a catch, hung suspend-' ed on the brink of danger, a more j thrilling escape titan any moving picture hero, or Relentless Rudolph and Hairbreadth Harry of comic supplement fame ever had. The brush pile had been formed by the tree trimmings which Mr. Bremerkamp had thrown ■ there on a pile, and it was fortunate! for Mr. Wyatt that he did.. Had the J ; machine gone back at a point only a few feet further south, where the f large sewer retaining wail forms a| 1 sheer-falling cliff, nothing could have j lj saved the machine from falling into, ' the river with Mr. Wyatt. Had it] 1 struck any of the trees at the river j > bank, the danger would haver been in-1 s tensified. It was necessary to get a. s team to pull the machine from the, 1 brush depression. I 1 o it FOUR IN ONE. f Little Mary Easley, west of this city, r her brother, Frank, of Hartford City, t ana the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Johnl Easley, have birthdays on the same ‘ i day, with the exception of Mrs. Eas- ( ' ley, whose anniversary is on the 20th.if All united in a birthday celebration. 1 however. About thirty people wore i present to join in the merry-making 1 and to wish Mr. and Mrs. Easley, their i son and daughter good luck in honor ’ of the occasion. At 10 o’clock a good > supper was served. That three mem- : bers of the family should have the same birthday anniversary and the fourth member only lack a day of having the same day and month is considered quite remarkable. — o ILL OF PNEUMONIA. Mrs. Belle Johnson, who has been very ill and bedfast the past three days of pneumonia, is somewhat better. Mrs. Johnson makes her home with her son, William Kist, foreman of the Democrat job department. o_ ICE CREAM SOCIAL. On Saturday evening there will be an Ice cream social on the Washington M. E. church lawn, southwest of the city. Everybody is invited. The i proceeds will go to the church. i

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HUNT INSANE MAN Sheriff Ed Green Called to State Line to Get Frank Morehead i \ HAS ESCAPED TWICE i ■ From Asylum—Made Run For Woods Across Line And Is Lost Sheriff Ed Green was called to tlio Joe Danner home on the state line, near Willshire, yesterday afternoon about three o’clock, to get an insane man. Frank Morehead, unmarried, aged 33, who has escaped twice from an insane asylum in Illnois. He came back to the home of his father, who now lives in Fort Wayne, and from there, came to the vicinity of Willshire, where he formerly lived, and where his mother is buried. He called at the Joe Danner home, and from there the call to the sheriff was given. When Morehead saw the officers he broke for the state line, rushing right over barbed wire fences and other obstructions with the ease of a squirrel, finally getting into a big woods across the state line. Sheriff Green notified the sheriff of Van Wert county, at Is was out of his own bailiwick, but stayed to help the officers and a big posse of men, which was organized, in scouring the country. A completed search failed to locate the insane man and it was finally abandoned. He is considered dangerous and people of the community are afraid. He seems to havo a mania for coal oil and fire and also talks of having guns hidden, causing a general feeling that his being at large is dangerous. o • LOOKINGJT OVER J. Kirby Risk, of Lafayette, Who Would Like to Be Governor Was Here ON SCOUTING TRIP Is Selling Stock In Sunday Daily Times, to Be Published In August J. Kirby Risk, of Lafayette, former member of the state committee, and now a candidate for the democratic nomination for the governorship, was hero this morning, setting the first stakes in his race. Mr. Risk was identified with the forward lookers, is a champion of Mr. Bryan though also a great admirer of President Wilson. At present he is selling stock in a new democratic newspaper to Jie published beginning next August from the office of the Indianapolis Daily Times, and he declares it will be a great paper published on Sunday mornings only and will be a paper unexcelled anywhere. Mr. Risk will be connected with it and says it will make a fight for a constitutional convention and other ideas which they feel the people are demanding. Mr. Risk is the first candidate for governor in the 1916 battle to reach here but it likely the first state wide primary will creat a real politicay scrap which will bring forth numerous candidates from every party. Mr. Risk also stopped at Berne and Geneva. He left at noon for Fort Wayne.. 0 SELLING THEM FAST. The new 1916 Overland automobile which sells for only $750. fully equipped, with electric lights, magneto and everything needed to make autolng a pleasure is proving a great car ami above all a big seller this summer. Since the new model came out the Holthouse Fireproof garage of this city which has the local agency, has sold six of the handsome cars. Among those buying one of the new models are C. H. Hayslip, William Meyers, J. O. Manley of Kirkland township, John Shaffer of Union township, W. D. Coll of this city and Henry Sha.nerloh of Union township. An ad in today’s paper fully explains the new Overland model.