Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 188, Decatur, Adams County, 7 August 1915 — Page 1

Volume XIII. Number 188.

CERMAN DEFEAT IS ANTICIPATED Allies Confident of Defeating Germans if They Attempt to Enter Paris. GENERAL CARRANZA Reports That He is Willing to Open Peace Negotiations With Villa. +++++++++ + + + + + .t. ♦ HOW LONG WILL + ♦ THE WAR LAST? + ♦ + ♦ “Until we are in Germany. We + ♦ will tight until this is accomplish- + ♦ ed, be it two years or ten.”—Re- + ♦ ply Wednesday of famous French + ♦ general. Story by William P. + ♦ Sims, with the French army at + ♦ the front: “If the Germans + ♦ make good their threat and at + ♦ tempt to smash through the al- + ♦ lied lines to the channel or to + ♦ Paris, after taking Warsaw, the + ♦ greatest slaughter ever witness- + ♦ed will occur. And the kaiser + ♦ will meet his Waterloo. This is 4- ♦ the opinion, most emphatically + ♦ expressed, of every officer from + + generals down, with whom I talk- + •fr ed on a tour of the battle front + + on the anniversary of the first + ♦ week of the war. They declared + ♦ they only fear the Germans + ♦ won't try, knowing it would play + + into the allies’ hands. For Ger- + ♦ many, they say. it would be the + ♦ beginning of the end. Such a + ♦ drive would be pre-doomed to + + failure, one officer said. Then, + ♦ weakened by frightful losses, the + ♦ kaiser’s legion would be at the + ♦ mercy of the allies, who, with + + time working to their advantage, + + have from the first conserved + + their troops to this end, largely + + thanks to the genius of Genera! + <• Joffre. France's commander-in- + ♦ chief.” "On this trip to the bat- + ♦ tie front, I was shown sights + + which few, if any, civilians here- + ♦ tofore have seen, or if they did + + see and were caught, for which + ■fr they paid the penalty, blindfold- + ♦ ed, before a firing squad. The se--r erets of the great citadel of Ver + + dun were made an open book by + + the French officers.” + ♦ 4 , + + + + + + + 4 , 4 , + + + + Washington, Aug 7,—(Special to the Daily Democrat)—General Carranza 1 has formally notified Secretary Lansing that he is willing to open peace negotiations with General Villa, it was learned positively today. Judge C. A. Douglas, Carranza's Washington lawyer,submitted the offer. Lansing said he did not lay it before the conference of Latin-American diplomats, but it was deemed significant that General Scott was ordered to the border immediately after the proposition was received. Havre, Aug. 7—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Serious mutinies have broken out in the German garrisons at Liege, Ghent, and Bruges, according to advises received today. Troops who were ordered to the Yser front refused to march. A number of their ring leaders are reported to have been shot. Brownsville, Tex., Aug. 7—(Special to Daily Democrat)—One officer was wounded and three Mexicans killed ! n a battle last night nyar here, when raiders attempted to carry out a plan to swoop down on a ranch and kill its owner. Posses were awaiting their arrival and a sharp conflict followed. St. Paul, Aug. 7,— (Special to Daily Democrat)—Governor Hammond this afternoon received a leter ot warning from Secretary Lansing urging his cooperation in restraining aviators from crossing the Canadian border. Washington, Aug. 7, —(Special to the Daily Democrat) —Two Haitians were killed instead of one as previously reported during the disarmament of natives at Port Au Prince by American marines. Washington, Aug. 7, —(Special to Daily Democrat)—The belief that peace is a little nearer in Europe was expressed in official quarters todaj Those who held this view said a dead lock seemed at hand. If the warring powers decide nothing can be gained by further fighting it was predicted they would cease hostilities. The suggestion was made that the administra-

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tion, if convinced that present coni’ltions in the war zone may not last much longer may be Influenced in its relations with the belligerents. (United Press Service) Berlin, Aug. 7 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—From the east bank of the Vistual the Russians are bombarding Warsaw. This afternoon’s dispatches to the war office said the bombardment continued throughout yesterday. The Russian line reaching north from Warsaw is in full retreat. An official statement this afternoon reported that General Von Schloz and General Von Galliwitz have broken the Russian resistance near Lotnsa and the mouth of the Bug river and are throwing the Slavs back in con(Contlnued on page 2) BIG DAMAGE CASE Harry McGill Brings $5,000 Damage Case Against Chicago & Erie FOR BAD INJURIES Sustained While Fireman That Will Disable Him for Life. Harry O. McGill is plaintiff in a $5,000 damage suit against the Chicago & Erie railroad company, filed this afternoon at 2:15 o’clock by Attorneys L. C. DeVoss and D. B. Erwin. McGill claims that, February 12, 1913, when he was nineteen years of age, he engaged with the railroad to serve as fireman. On the train on which he worked was an engineer named Tipton, whose surname was unknown to him, and through whose incompetence, recklessness and inexperience, he alleges he sustained injuries which are incurable and which will cripple him for life. The accident happened at Spencerville, Ohio, where they stopped and where McGill, acting under instruction from Tipton, took on coal from the coal dock. The dock was constructed so that it was necessary to climb eight or ten feet to the top of the engine tender to take on coal. While he was thus engaged at the coal chute, he alleges the engineer carelessly, recklessly and maliciously released the air brake, plunging the engine ahead several feet. When McGill attempted to get down again, not knowing the engine had been moved, this being during the night time, he was thrown from the engine, and dragged a distance of ten or fifteen feet by the engine, over a piece of coal. One ankle was crushed, the ligaments of the leg torn, right hip dislocated, producing hernia on the left side, the nature of which renders it incurable, and from which he will suffer his entire life, and which renders him unable to perform any labor. McGill was born June 5, T 893. o REMINGTON STRIKE ENDED. (United Press Service) Little Falls N. Y„ Aug. 7,—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The strike of the 2,000 employees of the Remington Arms company was ended today. The manager of the plant stated that the men would return to work under the new schedule Monday. The settlement is regarded as a compromise. The strike was unique. The men refused to go around the shops, kept off the streets and would not have any thing to do with professional labor agitators or organizers. The committee in charge of the strike was at all times on friendly terms with the plants management. o— RAILROADS GAIN INCREASE. (United Press Service) Washington, D. C., Aug. 7—(Special to Daily Democrat)—ln the year ending June 30, 125 out of the country’s 187 biggest railroads made $567,767,438 net against $547,552,327 the preceding year, Interstate commerge figures showed today. — —o THE STORK’S STOP. Harold is the name of the son born to Mr. and Mrs. William Goede, of Preble. Mr. Goede is the teacher of the Lutheran parochial school at Preble. The babe is the second son and child in the family. o CARD OF THANKS. I The children of the late Melissa Rice wish to thus thank the neighbors ! and friends for the kindnesses shown 1 them, the flowers given, and other fa--1 vors extended during the illness and ■ at thetinle of the death of their moth- .- er.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening,August 7, 1915.

DAY PROCLAIMED r Governor Ralston Proclaims Friday, Oct. 1, Disease Prevention Day. TIME IS RIPE For Appeal on Behalf of Public Health—Day is Generally Observed. October First, disease prevention day. Governor Samuel M. Ralston issued a proclamation designating Friday, October 1, as disease prevention day. The governor says: “The unanimity with which the first official proclamation for disease prevention day, that of last year, was received by the general public; the public schools, the medical profession, and the sanitary scientists and philanthropists, is to itself a sufficient warrant for issuing a second one in 1915. “The time was ripe for such an appeal on behalf of the public health, The work of voicing and giving practical direction, to an already aroused public opinion, so auspiciously stated and so greatly stimulated by that movement was too valuable to be lost or neutralized by any neglect or relaxation of interest and effort at this time. Good health is always a paramount issue. It means sane minds, as well as sound bodies; self-poise to the individual and safety to the state. In its last analysis it is the sheet anchor of a true and normal civilization. “I respectfully urge that such exercises be given in the public schools, and such action be taken by the various municipalities and civic and other organizations in Indiana, as will emphasize the importance of pub’ic health and the joint responsibility of all citizens therefor, and will inspire in every one a desire to meet that responsibility by an active co-operation in all sane efforts for the prevention of physical disease.” o THE COURT NEWS Marriage License Slump— None Issued This First Week of August. SALE WAS HELD Mrs. Arilla Danner Buys the James Ferguson Resi-dence-Court Notes. Real estate transfers: Harvey Riesen to Rebecca Riesen, 1-5 acre of Wabash township, $1; Rebecca Riesen to John Lehman, 240 square feet of land in Wabash township, $7.50; Elias Ris en to Harvey Riesen, 15 acre in Wabash township, sl. Certificate of election of John A. Covey as trustee of the Pleasant Valley Methodist Protestant church was filed with County Recorder Andrew Welfley. The case of Rollie W. Brodbeck vs. Roxie Ann Brodbeck, for annullment of marriage, mention of which was made in this paper some time ago, but which was delayed in files on account of the making of affadavit of non residnece, has been filed by Peterson & Moran in the circuit court. The couple were married and Brodbeck later . found that his wife was married to . another man. Commissioner Shafer Peterson in the Danner-Ferguson partition case, today sold the property on Mercer Avenue belonging to the late James , Ferguson, to his daughter, Mrs. Artilt la Danner. The property was offered f for sale at the law office of Peterson f & Moran. The widow hold a life es- , tate in the property. Fishers’ licenses have been issued in the past few days to J. W. Tyndall. Will Hainmell, Frank Rumschlag and 1 C. C. Scheperd. s i At noon today, not a marriage license has been issued in this month 1 of August. The last license was a ,- week ago today.. when three were issued.

| HEARS OWL HOOT. ' In Her Dreams and Fears for Her Friend, The following appears in the Chi- ' cago American of August 4: ‘Among the persons for whom Captain P. D. O’Brien of the detective bureau has been asked to search is Mrs. Ange lina E. Heller, who may have been a victim of the Eastland disaster. Miss Barbara Moser, Berne, Ind., writes that every night since the river disaster she has dreamed of her friend, and she has been awakened each time by the hooting of an owl. Mrs. Heller was in Chicago at the time of the overturning of the boat, and had composed a song called "Love’s Joys and Sorrows.” HELP _CRIPPLES Germany Takes Wonderful Care of Wounded and Disabled Soldiers. ALL ARE RESTORED To Former Occupations if Possible, or Are Taught New Trades. One of the wonders of this war has been the unexpected demonstrations of German efficiency and the completeness with which every phase of the war has been looked after. The latest procedure in this line brought to notice is described in the New York Medical Record of this week. It has to do with the provision made for war i cripples. An association for the crip- : pies already existed in Germany and had under its care various institutions scattered throughout the empire. The formidable name of this association ; is Dentache Vereingung fur Kruppel- i fursorage. War was declared on Aug- ' ust 13 the Empress expresed a wish ‘ that the organization should do its part toward alleviating the hardships of thewar. The facilities of the insti- , tutions, he suggested, could be util- I zed not only for the surgical and otthopedic treatment, of the wounded, but for the restoration of the men to ’ their former professional or industrial status. Arrangements to carry out this plan thereupon began promptly. It was realized that many wounded men might be more nearly restored to normal conditions and lameness, stiff- , nes of joints and other permanent disabilities prevented if they could be given special treatment not possible , in the ordinary hospital. Therefore J a systematic classfication 'of wounded men is made and those who can le benefited at these institutions for the cripples are sent there. It is considered undersirable for such men to go to their own homes as they would not proctice the necessary exercises 1 and would become apathetic. All of ■ tills are is taken with the idea that the , cripple is to berestored to his former occupation if possible: if not that he is to betaught how to earn his living and work is to be provided for him. 1 This last is the more easily managed as Germany has a net work of labor bureaus through which it is possible . to learn to labor needs in every corner of the empire. The government, too, is expected to require the employ- 1 ment of a certain number ot cripples by concerns with which it has contrats. EPWORTH LEAGUE PROGRAM. I The following program will be giv- , en at the Methodist church Sunday evening by the Epworth League. Miss Ruth Parrish will be leader, and the subject, “My Favorie Bible Character." Lesson —Leader. Talk —D. N. Erwin. Reading. Riley—Miss Lee Anna Vance. Talk —Miss Ruby Parrish. Piano Solo —Miss Vera Hower. Talk —A. D. Suttles. Taking in New Members—Rev. Stephenson. The services will begin at 6:30. o ABOUT THE SICK. David Gessinger has practically recovered the use of his right arm which he had broken eleven weeks ago in Fort Wayne. He went there to visit with his daughter and in getting off the interurban fell, breaking both . bones of the forearm, near the elbow. He was in Fort Wayne eight weeks, returning here three weeks ago.

showWbe free Moving Picture Reels Sent Out by Anti-Tuberculo-sis Society. TO BE SHOWN HERE Sunday, August 15, at the Crystal—lnstructive for Public Welfare. A week from tomorrow, Sunday, August 15, Decatur and Adams county residents will be given the privilege and pleasure ot seeing a free moving picture show. This will be given under the auspices of the Adams County Anti-Tuberculosis society and will be instructive along the line of the prevention and cure of tuberculosis and other diseases. The show will be given at the Crystal theater, but whether in the afternoon, or afternoon and evening both, has not yet been decided. Owing to the instructive nature of the reels, and their good for the public welfare, the mayor has knidly consented to the operation of the show on Sunday, The reels are sent out by the National Society for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. A letter was received today by Mrs. C. V. Connell, president of the Adams county society, from Mr. Thurber, of the state society, stating that the reels would be here on that date. One is entitled, “Hope,” and the other Temple of Moloch.” They will show pictures relative to conditions and measures for prevention of disease, and will be highly entertaining as well as instructive. BOOKS ON SALE. A pretty window display at the Holthouse drug store today was of the book of poems written by Paul Baumgartner, deputy auditor of Adams county. The book is entitled, “The Seven Searchers and Other Poems,” and is very good. atsonWedding Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Potts Attend Wedding of Son, Clarence Potts IN FORT WAYNE Miss Ruth Seabold the Bride —Groom Employed at Pensylvania Shops. Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Potts left today noon for Fort Wayne to attend the wedding of their son, Clarence Potts and Miss Ruth Seabold. The wedding will take place at the Grace Reformed church by the minister of that congregation. A wedding supper will be server at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Potts will leave today for a wedding trip, their itinerary including Chicago, Niagara Falls and other places of interest The groom is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Potts of this city, and he was born and reared here. He holds a good position in the Pennsylvania car shops. His bride is one of the excellent young ladies of Fort Wayne. o WALBRIDGE PARK, TOLEDO. Parties who have visited at Walbridge park, Toledo, Ohio, have said that the beautiful, well kept grounds, the number of wild animals in the zoological garden, the bear pits, the sea lions’ pool, the caged house for birds from all lands, as well as the summer and winter quarters for all the other animals, the beautiful conservatory for flowers and plants, the Blue Streak, the merry-go-round, the ride through the cave and other amusements, compare very favorably with what can be seen at Lincoln park, Chicago, 111. You will not be disappointed if you join the big excursion to Walbridge park, Tuesday, August 10. City cars leave the park every live minutes and parties so desiring can visit Toledo, with its Overland automobile factory, art museum, casino and Toledo beach. Look for the ad elsewhere in this issue.

‘ WHY MORE BOYS. ■ Portland. Ore., Aug. 6—ln an address here. Dr. Kendrick Smith, of Boston, told delegates to the convention of the American Osteopathic association that the number of boys born following a great war exceeds the number of girls, because underfed and weakened parents are likely to produce male offspring. “It seems,” ( he said, "that greater vitality is nec- . essary when female babes are born.” Thursday was surgical day at the convention, and several papers wore read ‘ on this branch of the science. Denver and Boston have entered the race with Kansas City for the next convention. o——— TAKEN TO HOME Body of Mrs. Pudenz Passes Through Decatur Friday Night Enroute to Home AT CINCINNATI, OHIO Gladys Bowers Was in Auto Accident—Escaped With Bad Burises. The body of Mrs. Frank Pudenz, of Cincinnati, Ohio, who died at 3 o'clock yesterday morning at the Kneipp sanitarium at Rome City as a result cf nijuries received when an automobile driven by her son, Earl, overturned two miles north of Avilla two weeks ago, passed through Decatur last night, being taken to the former home. Mrs. Pudenz, who suffered concussion of the brain, did not regain consciousness after the accident. Her sons, Earl and Robert and daughter, Alma, aged 21, and Miss Gladys Bowers, this city who were in the car with her when the accident occurred, were only severely bruised and have practically recovered. The mishap was on the evening of the nineteenth birthday of Earl Pudenz. Robert aged 4 years, was seated in his mother’s lap when the crash came, but he escaped with only a few scratches. The unfortunate woman was the , wife of one of Cincinnati’s leading merchant tailors. With her children she had driven to Rome City on the day before the accident to spend the summer at the resort. After reaching there it was discovered that an extra 1 tire had been lost from the car and telephone inquiry at places along the ■ route found that it had been picked up at Huntertown. The next day the party motored there to get the tire and the return to Rome City was be- 1 ing made when the car struck a rut in the road, bounded and caused the young driver to lose control, and turned over in the ditch. Mr. Prudenz has been at his wife’s bedside since the day after the accident. Mrs. Pudenz and family were well known here, many from here having been their guests at their cottage iu Rome City on several occasions. A few weeks ago while enroute to Rome City they stopped here for a short while at the J. S. Bowers home Mias Alma Pudenz has often visited here at the Bowers home, also. o AN ENJOYABLE AFFAIR. One of the most charming parties of the season was the dance given at the Knights of Columbus hall last evening by Miss Marie Connell for her eighteenth birthday anivorsary. The parlors and the large dance hall were unusually pretty in their floral decorations of yellow and white. Large jardinieres and brass bowls were filled with golden glow, golden rod and yellow nasturtiums with their green foliage, while green feathery-leaved sprays were used in hooding the chandeliers and in background masses. The large dance hall, never saw a merrier party than the nineteen couiFles of last evening. Miss Bertha Kohne furnished the music. In the parlors punch was served from bowls presided over by the Misses Lois Connell and Florence Bremerkamp. A feature of the refreshments was the beautiful birthday cake In yellow and white with its eighteen candles, which was served with the i punch. Chaperons of the party were i Dr. and Mrs. C. V. Connell, Mr. and • Mrs, Fred Schaub, Mr. and Mrs. Frank , Barthol. Out of town guests were t Miss Frances Mason, Jonesboro, Ark.; ■ Miss Ollie Zellers, Mansfield, Ohio; - Leon Baker, Clarence Strode!, Fort , Wayne; Mr. Enners, Indianapolis; r Miss Leah Hensley, who came from Rome City for the party.

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BIG STEEL ANNEX r Will be Built to Palmer I i House—Plan to Com- ' mence Work Soon. TO HAVE 200 ROOMS Colonel Dick Townsend the Manager—Fortune Spent in Improvements. The Paducah (Ky.) Evening Sun tells of the contemplated improvements on his hotel there, to be made by Colonel Dick Townsend: “The ten-story steel annex to the Palmer house, plans for which were drawn early in the year, will be erected if business justifies it within the next few months, according to a statement made to a Sun reporter by Mr. John W. Keiler today. “ 'Business is splendid,’ continued Mr. Keiler, ‘and Mr. Townsend, the manager, has been importuning us to start the work on the annex we have had under consideration for some time this fall. While I was on a trip to the north the past few weeks I made arrangements to finance the new addition, and if a careful survey of the present volume of business and the indications for the future indicate we need it, we shall start work on the annex probably the latter part of the year. “ ‘The contemplated addition is a 200-room, all-steel structure, built over the Kentucky theater. The plans comprehend also the razing, at some time, of the present building. the erection of another ten-story section on the site, making the building uniform. “ ‘The hotel company is now spending $40,000 in improvements and the building will be practically new when the work is completed, in a month or two.’ said Mr. Keiler. 'We are turning away business every day now, and Mr. Townsend insists he will need much more room this fall, when our best season comes. " ‘lf we find business promises to justify the 200-room annex, it will be built.' “The annex will represent an expenditure of $200,000. “Work is already in process ot converting the old Evans drug store into an addition to the Palmer cafeteria, where the volume of business has outgrown the old quarters. The hotel is enjoying the distinction of ranking with any hostelry outside of Louisville’s best and its patrons are from a wide territory.” o FLOODS MOVE SHOW The rapidly-rising waters of tho Wabash caused the Murdock dog and pony show which took up a location on the Paxson Island Thursday, to make a night shift of part of the paraphernalia. The waters rose steadily, more an inch an hour during ilia night, and this morning more than one half of the island was under water. All of the show equipment was moved to the soutli portion of the island, which is a little higher than the rest of the iesland. Today the show moved to the vacant lot north of the Elk’s heme, where a show will be given tonight.—Bluffton News. The show moved from Decatur, Wednesday after a week here. o COLLIDES WITH POST. While driving on Monroe street with a manure spreader, Henry Knapp, senior member of the firm of Knapp & Son. hardware dealers, had the misfortune to collide with an ornamental post at the corner of the L. C. Waring property, late yesterday afternoon. In some manner the lines became twisted and Mr. Knapp pulled the team into the post, the heavy wagon striking it about two feet from the base, tearing it from the foun- , dation and throwing it into the street. , All of the globes were broken and i the wiring torn loose, necessitating an expenditure of twenty-five or thirty , dollars to repair it. 1 MRS. JAMES ROSS DOING WELL 1 » Mrs. James Ross, who wasoperated ■ upon last Thursday at the Lutheran 1 hospital. Fort Wayne, for the removal ; of the gall bladder, is getting along ■ very nicely. She will remain there two weeks longer. This is the third operation and she is getting along better than at any of the other times. Dr. Duemling of Fort Wayne and Dr. . Elizabeth Burns of this city, performed the operation.