Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 207, Decatur, Adams County, 30 August 1915 — Page 2

DAILY DExMOCRAT Published Evary Evanlng Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates Her Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier 15.00 Per Month, by mall 25 cents ■er Year, by mall $2.50 single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the Postoffice in Decatur, Indiana as second-class matter WORTH WHILE:— ' svelopments of the past few days in the dispute between the United S ates and Germany over submarine practices in warfare can not fail to be immensely gratifying to every American citizen. Not only is the situation -ratifying because of the lessening of a tension most grave in character, but because no victory on the bloodstained fields of this war can compare with the president’s victory for humanity and for peace. It has cost < housands of American citizen- >. lives and no wealth of treasure .eaves poverty and hardship in wake. The imperial German 'ambassador has conveyed to the American state department the fact that orders have been issued to German naval commanders to attack no merchant ship of a belligerent nation without due warning and consequent opportunity for escape with *life by non-combat-ants. This is the big point for which President Wilson has been contending in his interchange of notes with the warring nations. With rare good sense, with calm firmness, refusing to be stampeded into reckless action and with unfailing respect and courtesy for divergent views, the president has carried his argument to the point where his contentions have been recognized and accepted. Nor is Germany’s yielding of the point which she has contended heretofore to be vital to her interests in the situation forced upon her to be taken as any indication of weakness. The concession carries with it no humiliation and no lowering of either dignity or prestige. Rather, on the other hand, it is the manifestation of an exalted national spirit that first of all desires to be right and to be just and to continue to enjoy the respect of the civilized world. The president's course lias been assailed again and again by those who would apply to national affairs the all too prevalent personal proclivity for trouble-hunting. With a different type of a man in the white house the United States would have long ago been plunged into the abyss of the world war. Patiently, firmly, calmly, sanely, President Wilson has been performinga gigantic task. There is new reason for thankfulness hat the right sort of president is in -on of our affairs in these ticka imes.—Fort Wayne Sentinel. The democrat!* meeting at Elwood - tember 29th will be an enthusstic opening of the 1916 campaign

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and from that time on for more than a year there will be plenty doing for those who like the game of polities. Its to be a busy, bustling year, with plenty of candidates. The fall season opens next Monday. Its Labor day when you are supposed to put uway your straw hat, dig up a derby and get down to real business. Vacations are closing and with the reopening of school, court the commissioners in session, there will be a s.t'r of old fashioned up and doing. Get busy. Keep things moving. If the young men and women of this city are to have pleasures and benefits of a gymnasium this fall and v. inter, some one will have to point out a place where the ■ '.littee can secure quarters. The t'.ing begins to look impossible unless i 11 .1 ling is erected especially for the purpose. This requires considerable money end so far no one has made a donation sufficient to provide th .

| DOINGS IN SOCIETY CLUB CALENDAR. T uesday. Afternoon Club—With Mrs. Dyouis Schmidt. Pythian Needle Club—K. of P. Home. Rebekah Degree team called. Wednesday. Wednesday “500” Club —Mrs. Fred Thursday. Picnic —Dorwin's Grove. Baptist Aid —Mrs. Betz. Miss Frances Dugan has returned from Racine, Wis., where she visited a week with a Vassar friend. She al-1 so visited at Milwaukee, Wis. Miss Winifred Ellingham of Indiana-! pells and Miss Helen Schaubb of Auburn have returned home after a vi sit with Miss Dorothy Dugan. The Wednesday Five Hundred club will be entertained Wednesday evening by Mrs. Fred Fullenkamp. The Pythian Needle club will meet Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 at the K. of P. home. Every member of the Rebekah degree team is urged to be at the meeting Tuesday evening for practice. The Baptist Ladies’ Aid society will meet Thursday afternoon at two o’clock with Mrs. Betz on West Adams street. Mrs. Amelia Hoagland and son, Earl, attended the Hoagland family reunion held Sunday in Whitley county. The families of Dawson Suman and Joseph McFarland leased one of the Auto Transit buses yesterday and with Clyde Noble as driver, made the trip to a grove seven miles south of Portland, where they attended a family reunion, in which nearly one hundred participated. The Misses Mary and Frances Colter of Willshire, Ohio, who spent the week with the W. A. Fonner family, returned home Sunday. They were taken to their homes in the Fonner companying them there. Miss Gladys Myers entertained at a six o’clock dinner party last evening at the Hotel Murry in compliment to a company of Winchester friends who motored here. The party included Messrs. John Watson, Claude Davis and the Misses Florence Goodrich and Doris Davis, of Winchester, and Raymond Kohne. Later in the evening they were guests at the home of Miss Meyer’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eli Meyers. The Winchester party motored home last evening. The Elzey annual family reunion will he held here next Sunday. In ase the weather does not permit the holding of the reunion at the Steele park, it will be at the K. of P. home, arrangements having been made today. Mr. afid Mrs. T. E. Miller and HenryKnapp returned last evening from Warsaw where they attended the Miller family reunion Saturday. Saturday evening they went to Winona and heard Madame Schuman-Heink's concert and also heard William Jennings Bryan speak. Their visit was a very enjoyable one. With the exception of one son. Clark Ross, of low?. the Jack Ross family circle was complete yesterday, when an imprompted reunion was held at the home on North Fifth street. The affair was informal and no set form of entertainment was provided, all being free to enjoy themselves as they found best. A fine big chicken dinner, with many other good things, including water melon, was served at noon. Those present were Mr. and

Mrs. James Ross, and three children, Don, Hazel and Velma, of Fort Wayne, Mr. and Mrs, Henry Snyder and children of New Huven; Mr. and Mrs Charles Ross and children of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Ball and family. The third annual reunion of the McIntosh family will be bold Tuesday. August 31, at the honre of George Brouwer, five miles west of Monroeville. Each member will take a has ket of good things for the dinner and a good time is anticipated. Officers of the association are; Sarah Brouwer tosh, president, and Sarah Brouwer, secretary. The Afternoon club will meet Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Dyonis Schmidt. A crowd of jolly young people gathered Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Welker for a pleasant day. A good dinner was served at the noon hour. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Dick Welker and family, Cleo Sunderland, Russell Tope. Matie Chronister, Earl Welker, Velta Johnson, Harlie Welker, Zella Tope, Grace Tope, Gladys Welker. Earnest Tope. May Welker, Cleo Johnson, Iva Barrone, Clyde Aimsworth, Rolla Brodbeck, Floyd Brodbeck. All left in the evening wishing many happy returns of the day.—Contributed. The annual reunion of the KuhnVink families was held at Celina. 0., yesterday and was a most pleasant event. Mrs. Julia Colchin of this city, who has been spending a week at Celina. Wapakoneta and Coldwater, 0.. attended and returned last evening with Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Tanvas and family, who went over for the day. Mrs. Charles Jackson and daughter of Indianapolis arrived to be guests of tho Paul Baumgartner family. William Mougey left Sunday for Toledo after a few days’ visit in the city with his parents and friends. o ARE CLOSING IN ON FORT GRODNO

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(CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) dock today, but no attempt has _yet been made to enter it, the navy department announced. Washington, D. C., Aug. 30—(Special to Daily Democrat) —General Carranza was believed to be in Mexico City today. His reply is expected here by Tuesday to the Pan-American peace plea. It was deemed certain of rejection. FORD WILL°BE PRIVATE (United Press Service) Chicago, Aug. 30, —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Henry Ford, multi-million-aire auto manufacturer will be a private in the ranks at the Fort Sherlden training camp for business men. Col Frederickson today accepted the Detroit man’s application. Ford was one of the first to ask to be one- of the "rookies," Detroit. Aug. 30, —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Henry Ford’s secretary today denied that Ford had ever applied for membership in the Chicago business men’s camp. o - WINONA WAS SOLD TODAY (United Press Service) Winona, Ind., Aug. 30, — (Special to Daily Democrat)—Winona,- the greatest Chautauqua in the country was so’d today under the hammer to E. O. Ex cell of Chicago, for $100,600, which was two dollars more than the afpraised valuation. Excell is one of the old directors and with several others will assist in reorganizing with W. J. Bryan as president. o FUNERAL TUESDAY MORNING The funeral services for Mrs. Henry Barkley who died Saturday, will b-3 held Tuesday morning at ten o’clock from the house just south of the city. o NOTICE Dr. C. R. Weaver will continue to close his office on Wednesday afternoons during the months cf September and October. 207 L‘> o \ HAIR CUT 15c Frank Hower and Clem Knoff have opened a barber shop four doors south of the Moser & Wiliams gallery. Hair Cut 15c shave 10c. 205t8 PATRONS, NOTICE. My office will be closed from August 20 until August 27. 97t9 ROY ARCHBOLD. PIANO TUNING AND REPAIRING. D. A. Gilliom (Professional) rebuiller and repaired of pianos and sewing machines, and piano tuner. Dealer in both branches. Write or phone 8, Line P, city. lllm-w-f ts o— — ROOMERS WANTED - Inquire of Mrs. D. D. Heller, Fifth street. Heat, light and bath. 208tf.

25 PURDUE EXPERTS AT THE INDIANA STATE FAIR A staff of about 25 experts from Purdue University will spend the week of Sept. 6 at the Indiana State Fair, giving their entire attention to helping Hoosier farmers with their homo problems. This is one of the greatest educational forces at the Indiana Fair, and is one of many educational features that the exposition al ways offers to the tillers of the soil, breeders and fruit growers of the state. The Purdue exhibit is being entirely re-organized, for the coming Fair and it, as weii as the instruction, will keep pace with the advancing interests of people from the farms. The Purdue dairy exhibit, demonstrations and discussions will make this kind of instruction of still more benefit to men and women from tHe farms who come to the Fair. Tic Purdue chemists will instruct the farmers in the sale of feeding stuffs and fertilizers, as the new state law requires, and an extensive exhibit of fertilizers will be shown. Soil and crop improvement, rotation of crops, farm drainage, cultivation, and rtftny more subjects will be treated by the Purdue men. Fighting hog cholera, garden and orchard pests, poultry raising, and other lines of farming activity will be other kinds of instruction available. The Purdue instruction and exhibits will, in fact, make short cuts to scientific farming that every farm man and woman may go home from the Fair with new ideas. The State Food Commissioner -will have a unique display showing weights and measures of legal and illegal kind, sanitation in Keeping foods, fraudulent medicines and drugs. STATE FAIR RACES OF THE HIGHEST ORDER Indiana State Fair harness races, in which the horses have an honest chance to show their speed, and in which the entertainment of the spectators is made paramount, will be of the usual high order the week of Sept. 6. Purses and stakes aggregating $30,000 will be awarded, the program for each day being as follows: MONDAY, Sept. 6—2:28 trot, purse, $1,000; 2:12 pace, $1,000; 2:16 trot, $1,000; 2:20 pace for and under, SI,OOO. TUESDAY, Sept. 7—2:21 trot, sl r 000; 2:25 pace, $1,000; 2:25 trot for 3-year-olds and under, $1,000; 2:07 pace, SI,OOO. WEDNESDAY, Sept. 8—2:17 pace, $1,000; 2:14 trot, $1,000; Western Horseman stake No. 6 for 3-year-old pacers, $4,000; 2:24 trot, SI,OOO. THURSDAY, Sept. 9—2:15 pace, $1,000; 2:11 trot, $1,000; Western Horseman stake No. 6 for 3-year-old trotters, $8,000; 2:10 pace, SI,OOO. FRIDAY, Sept. 10—2:18 trot, sl,000; 2:20 pace, $1,000; 2:08 trot, sl,000; 2:03 pace, SI,OOO. During the races the Indianapolis Military Band will give concerts at the grandstand and the following open air vaudeville bill will be seen: Collier & DeWalde, performing wonderful feats of fancy and trick skating; Weber sisters, rapid fire ground acrobats; Freres DeKock troupe of sensational jugglers of human beings; Howard's animals in mirth-provdking tricks by bears and dogs; the Whirlwind Genoas, lightning pyramiders. Officers of the Fair. The officers of the fair and department managers, who are all members of the State Board of Agriculture, are: President, Warren T. McCray, Kentland; vice-president, Charles IL Anthony, Muncie; secretary and treasurer, Charles Downing, Indianapolis; Superintendent of admissions, W. G. Himmelwright, Frankfort; grandstand, Cornelius O’Brien, Lawrenceburg; speed, Charles H. Anthony; horses, Dan C. Reed, Attica; cattle, Clem Graves, Bunker Hill; sheep, John L. Thompson, Gas City: swine, Mason J. Niblack, Vincennes; poultry, Harry M. Moberly, Shelbyville; art, S. F. Spohn, Goshen; horticulture, John C. Haines, Lake; agriculture, L. B. Clore, Franklin; mechanical, Ed S. Tuel, Corydon; concessions, Sam O. Dungan, Indianapolis; coliseum, John Isenbarger, North Manchester; amusements. Charles W. Travis, Lafayett*

OFFICERS NAMED (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ion. A vocal solo by Miss Abbie Bigham and a piano solo by Miss Cdcil Andrews were splendid numbers. Officers elected were: President. Nola Snyder, Decatur; first vice president, Bertha Bunner; second vice president, It. J. Mann, Mt. Pleasant; third vice president. Susie Dilling. Preble; fourth vice president, Bessie Davis, Pleasant Mills: secretary. Ruth Gay; treasurer, Harvey McKean, Monroe; Reporter, Nola Bryan, Salem: Junior League president, Ruth Fledderjohann, Decatur. The district officers. Miss Easley and Mr. Stone, of Fort Wayne, were entertained at the parsonage, and with the Fort Wayne visitors, left at 9:30 for their homes. —o GIBSON IS BEING PROTECTED (United Press Service) Indianapolis, Aug. 30, (Special to Daily Democrat)—Bud Gibson, who rccnlly changed his plea of not guilty to one of guilty in the election conspiracy cases, indicating that he will turn states evidence in the case against Mayor Joseph E. Bell, will not be tried on the second indictment, the case having been dismissed today on motion by Prosecutor Rucker. — o NOTICE. We will start our cider mill August 3, 1915, and will make cider every Tuesday and Thursday until further notice. Factory, North Third street. lS3tt PETER KIRSCH.

OUNCE OF PREVENTION WORTH POUNDS OF CURE. ************* * NOTICE TO * * CORRESPONDENTS. * * k You are invited to write the * x Tuberculosis Editor of the Daily * x Democrat on any phase of the tu- * k berculoeis problem. Your name * k will not be used without your * k permission. Vlease make your * k questions short. If you desire a * k personal answer, be sure to on- * * close a stamped, addressed enve- * * lope. This service is absolutely * * free to readers of the Daily Demo- v * ocrat. * ************* Every citizen in Adams county should take a keen interest in the preparations that are being made throughout Indiana for a statewide observance of Disease Prevention Day. Friday, October 1. Last year the proposition was entirely For that reason several Indiana communities of some impor’ance stood “on the sidelines,” and watched their neighbor cities observe the day. Yet, all the newness, all the untried ness, and all the difficulties that fall to the lot of a “trail blazer,” hundreds of Hoosier cities and towns put >n demonstrations against preventable iisease that redounded to their glory tnd benefit. The renewed and stimulated interest of their citizenship in matters pertaining to public health more than paid the communities for the insignificant trouble and expense to which they had been put in observing Disease Prevention Day. This Indiana “special day" concerns überculsois more than any other dis ■ase because State Board of Health •ecords show that more deaths are ■aused by consumption than by all ither communicable diseases combin'd. Let us all join hands for a “big lay” on Disease Prevention Day in Jecatur this year. Questions and Answers. Dear Editor: —I am a young man, wenty-four years old, and I am en ■aged to marry a girl whose mother lied of consumption. My friends tel! ■ae that if we marry it won’t be long ntil my wife gets consumption, and hat I’ll probably get it, too. What zould you advise me to do. —W. G. B. If there is no physical bar to such union other than an antiquated theiry that tuberculosis is hereditary narry the girl. Jtlst because the nother of your fiance died of consump ion there is no reason why she should lie of it. It might be well, however, or her to take good care of herself. She should have plenty of fresh air lay and night. When you marry her lo not overburden her young shoullers with tasks that tend to sap her strength. To the Editor: —My cousin and I lave always been pals. We have :rown up together from childhood, ind have come to be unusually con;enial, and now they tell us he must ;o west for his health. The doctor says he has tuberculosis. Is it really lecessary for one to go west to be curid of tuberculosis? —Ronald R. Your cousin’s physician is doubtless he J>est judge of what is best for him '.o do, but generally speaking, one suffering from tuberculosis can get .veil at home as easily as in another climate.

ABOUT THE SICK. Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Coverdale received a telegram last night about 9:30 I’clock that their daughter-in-law, Mr,. Clark Coverdale of Nashville, Tenn., had undergone a serious operation at four o’clock Sunday afternoon the hospital in Nashville, Tenn. The message stated that she is getting along as well as can be expected. The exact details were unknown here but the operation was a serious one. Mrs. J. S. Coverdale will leave tonight at two o’clock for Nashville, and will be accompanied by grandsons, Jonas and Claire, sons of Clark Coverdale, who spent the summer here. 8080 C. E. ELECTION. Tine minutes of the Bobo U. B. Christian Endeavor tor Sunday evening, August 21: Met for the organization of this society. House was called to order by A. M. Bowen. M. S. Hilpert was elected temporary chairman, after which Mrs. A. M. Bowen was elected president and Miss Agnes Shafter, secretary; Clarence Chronister, treasurer. The president then appointed a committee of three to arrange a program for the next meeting, after the reading of the next meeting program. A song was sung by the society after which meeting was dismissed by J. L. Chronister. —Contributed. THE STORK'S STOP A fine boy born Saturday morning to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schneck of Pleasant Mills, has been named John Charles. The mother was formerly Miss Wilma Cowan. Democrat Want Ads Pay.

From My Narrow Little Window By THE HOOSIER OBSERVER IN UNION, STRENGTH.

Funny, isn’t it. how you can hear proverbs and “sayings" dinned into your ears for years and years, and never find them meaning anything to you particularly? Then suddenly you awaken as from a dream and find they give you a new understanding to things you observe in common, everyday life. I had long heard of "In union there is strength” and probably have rattled over the words myself, like a parrot. Then, too, there was the story in ray father’s old reader about the father who taught that sentiment to his sons, by taking a bundle of sticks and showing that the bundle could not be broken, except by taking each stick alone, in which case it snapped like a straw. ****** It flashed through my brain clearly as we passed through “The Junction, a little village not on the map. but slightly visible to the naked eye (when we removed our goggles) on the auto trip the other day. An auto< trip, somehow, clears away the cobwebs from the mind, and gives the right “perspective” Io things, with the swift covering of “magnificent distances.” Points seem to be brought closer together admitting of more free comparison. Then, too, there is the advantage of seeing things from a different point of view, as The Country Contributor said, recently, than the back door narrow view, which you yould get passing through jn a railway train. ****** The auto sped along a magnificent itretch of country. Fine palatial residences fronted the broad, glistening river; broad acres stretched away proud and luxurious and splendid under a covering of rich fruit and flowers; busy cities with fine buildings end busy thoroughfares and many smoke stacks, belching business, afforded an index to the progressiveness of the several communities. Then came one ' stretch where the farmhouses dwindled down into little un painted buildings; the narrow acres showed brown through their scanty coverings of crop; and finally “The Junction” crawled sleepily and sheep.’ly and shame-facedly into view, as the center of this poor community. The houses were ramshackle affairs, near the tumble-down state and apparently built before the paint age. for they evidently had never seen a daub. The houses were few, but spread over considerable territory. The inhabitants were evidently dead in the shell, for very few were to be seen, except one or two men, sleepily and tiredly repairing some old harness; slattern, motherhubbard clad girls wearily pushing toothless combs through their scanty locks as they made their morning toilet near the noon hour, and rushed to the doorway to take in the few passing sights, •peculating on whose horse it was coming down the road, or where the few other travelers were going. Very few signs of young life were manifest. No railroad ran its shining length through the town; no factories buzzed; no commercial life seemed apparent. A more miserable-looking, forsaken place could not be imagined —it didn’t even have an interurban. One of the girls of the party said nothing could ever induce her to live in such a place. She would end it, she said, if she had been born in such a state, by jumping into the creek and drowning or eloping with the first man who came into the town —it wouldn't matter which she did, one was equally pleasant—though the

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prospects of a man coming there were as remote to probability, in our minds as that of a pleasure yacht sailing into the region of the desolate north pole. Why it was called “The Junction" we could not guess—there was nothing to join, except the churches—but there were four of them, large buildings, too, in good condition. Evidence enoungh there was, of lack of "junction” in public spirit also. How that poor community ever raised euough money and kept enough people there to build and maintain the four churches, is more than our dazed minds dare undertake to figure. Set down in their midst was one little school house, little, 1 must say, but the newest and best kept of the community, barring the churches. ****** Mine not to reason why, mine but to accept and not to pry. but I couldn’t help wondering about that community and those tour big churches. How could those four big churches have been filled with people, when that one little school house was sufficient for the children of the community? If there had been enough people to fill those four big churches, there would have been enough children to have filled a larger school house, for the most race-suicide-stricken district as large would have furnished more than that school house would accommodate. If the four churches were like those ot the majority of communities, they were evidence of lack of union of spirit. If the congregations were like many others one faction could not be bell-wearer and left and started his own church; another faction could not agree to say “Amen” at that point in the ceremony; another could not agree upon arising and singing at that certain stage of procedure; another could not agree upon getting a red carpet instead of a green; so each left and started a church, according to his own little notion, and with plenty of room for accommodating more. Thecsame lack of union, that splits a community up into many churches, each sparsely filled, is undoubtedly the same lack of union that fails in building up the community otherwise. Where there is not the strength of union, the co-operation necessary for securing business enterprises, factories and progressive movements of any kind, is lacking, too. ****** As we whirled along, my mind stayad a while at The Junction, and I dreamed dreams of what might be, if they had a “junction” of co-operative spirits. Two or three of the churches woud be closed, and the others filled tor every service with co-operative bodies. Then one of theabaudoned churches would be fitted up for the young people as a recreation building, and I’ll wager to say that the remaining church houses would have to be moved up to the school house to accommodate the increased number of children, for many of them would not be running away to the city. The spirit of co-operation would get busy and build some railways, get some good factories and other industries, and people would move in and the houses would be remodeled and painted and but just then we reached another town, more progressive and I forgot about The Junction. A • • «n ,/ 0 7 . -