Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 63, Decatur, Adams County, 14 March 1916 — Page 1

Volume XIV. Number 63.

I CARRANZA ATTEMPTS I TO STAY INVASION —■ i i —■—■■■■ I ASSERTIONS THAT 1500 TROOPERS IN- ( VADED MEXICO EARLY THIS MORNI TNG IS NOT DENIED BY ARMY MEN — - _ . .

(United Press Service) • El Paso. Texas. March 14. (Special Ito Daily Democrati ' ('arrauzu’s for <• V -Will have Villa before the end of the p w< ek." announced (ieneral Gutierrez r today, outlining what is believed to Lt an effort to forstall the American ex- • peditionary forces into Mexico, w. ‘'The Carranza government can taae Bf'faro of \'illa. "Gutierrez continued. He Outlined a compreliensive military HK achente to surround Villa and indicat I H. that the Carranza forces already have the Bandit Chief virtually surrounded & In the Gala Galenia district o, ChlhuaB; hua. Galenia which give; it name to the £ fceighboring district is a small town Ip. In Chihuahua, about lio miles almost fi* due south of El Paso. It is nearly 50 L miles west of the National Mexican c railroad and within a day or two ride ; of the Mormon colony in the Cascas j Grande district, United States advic-i es early today reported Carranza's dc- 1 R ( termination to capture Villa as a! means of preventing the American inf vasion of Mexico. San Antonio, Tex.. Mar. 14 — (Specie ial to Daily Democrat) —That a flying

squadron of 1.500 American troopers ] under the lightest possible equipment a>’d with supplies of two weeks’ rations an«l plenty of water crossed the border er.rly today, is persistently asserted by men in close touch with army circles. Keports of actual fighting between this advance expedition and Villistas are momentarily expected. The column is said to have crossed the international border headed west i tnd south of Columbus, with the intention of throwing a line of United States soldiers between Villa and the Sierra Madre mountains long a Villa 1 J, pronghOld. It is believed this purBi, pose is already accomplished. / i K The lid lias been damped down on ; BCW3 from the border west of El . ' Paso, it was officially stated at GenK1 oral Fur.cton’s headquarters at Fort B. *JHam Hueston today. Officials stated General Pershing’s action in nlelzing the teiegraph station at folumKbus. New Mexico, and placing wires Kinder a strict military censorship was mpted by discovery that military K-messages were being In-’.d up in favor ■for commercial and press t* legrams, J He the delay in some cam's amounting • B to eight or ten hours. Washington, 1). C . Mar. 14 (Spec|Blal to Daily Dcmo-ratl- -President note to General Carranza, acB< opting the- first chief’s suggestions, ■ for a "reciprocal agreement" as to bandits across the border was ■ very favorably received in Mexico, ac- ■ cording to official messages today. Thorn in everv reason to believe

B lnere is every iwwuu w Uiiy trouble which may have threatleued by misconstruction first placed 'on this government's plan to enter Mexico has been avoided. Washington, March 14. (Special to ■ Daily Democrat) Urgent act;, nto inB crease the army by 19.000 men to hs ■ full war strength was decided on by B the administration today. Secretary B Baker asked congress to pass a resolu I the conference. Neither will a call for I be made to pars it late this afierno.m in the house. Secretary Baker and Chairman lit.' I of the house military committee v. ua ■ whom the plan originated discuss'd I it. Baker felt that specific authority ■ from congress should he asked and I given. Increase of the army abou I the recognized war footing, is not now ■ Contemplated. This was decided at I file conference. Neither wtl a call tor I the state militia or volunteers he i sued at present. Secretary Baker told Chairman lit he thought the full string'll of tm I army should be recruited. Washington. March H.--(Special t< I Daily Democrat) — Represeniati-e l'.y 1 I national commander of the Spanish I War veterans sent a request today '<> I all state commanders to notify him I how many men are available tor | vice in Mexico, if the president calls

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for volunteers. Dyer thinks he can 1 raise 50,000 men. X - - San Antonio, Texas, March 14, — (Special to Daily Democrat)' —‘Into Mexico by tonight,” was the opinion : expressed here today by experienced . military men who have been closely watching the work of preparation. , That the expedition is ready to start , was indicated by,General Eunston himself who stated there would not be the slightest delay once the troops are concentrated. The first aerial squadron. composed of ten officers and eighty enlisted men, Is due at El Paso, to-. day, with eight military aeroplanes and equipment. Washington, March 14. —(Special to' Daily Democrat) —Final orders for thp Villa hunt were in General Funston’s hands todev. Telegraph wires hum-1 ' med with the details of the puntitive i expedition and all Washington waited ! for the news of the border crossing. | . A few isolated American troops mayj already have possessed Mexican soil, it is thought, but army officers believe j the start of the main expedition under General Pershing from Columbus will \ not occur before tomorrow at the ear-'

best. Mqxico City .Mexico, March 14 — (Special to Daily Democrat)—The dam . ger of a break between the Unit’d i States and the Carranza government j has passed, according to articles in the morning newspapers evidently inspired by Carranza officials. Washington, qMrch 14, —(Special to Daily Democrat)—With thp American troops on the eve of marching into Mexico, President Wilson was threatened with a new revolt in congress today. An outburst of crPieism was threatened in the senate ove r the president’s agreement,with Carranza. Many senators were indignant over the pernrssion given Carranza troops to enter American territory and hpusr members also threatened to explode in vigorous criticism. Instead of the solid support and approval given the president in his plan to get Villa, both congressional bodies bubbled with protests. o BLUFFTON BOY A SUICIDE (United Press Service) | Indianapolis, March 14, —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Clyde Masterson, 25 years old, who took poison at the Guildford flats north on Massachusetts avenue, Sunday night, died last evening at the Deaconess hospital. Masterson was employed as a bookkeeper m the Indianapolis Brass Foundry Com-

pany. Considerable mystery surrounds the act. Masterson met his wife Sunday night and they went into their apartments together. Masterson took some tablets and dissolved them in a glass of beer and drank it. He then informed his wife that he had swallowed poison. His relatives and employers say Masterson was of a particularly jovial disposition and that he had never ntimated that he intended taking Ms life. Masterson is a step son of 11. H. Wasson, a postofflee inspector, having his headquarters in Bluffton. He i.known to many Decatur young people who have met Mm both at Bluffton society events and in this city. meetTng POSTPONED The meeting of the yonng mens class of the Christian church which was to have been held at the office of Dr. C. r Weaver tonight has been postponed until Thursday night when the meeting will open at eight o’clock. - — TO MOVE HERE. r william Page, manager of the Mor- , riß five and ten cent store, has leased 3 the A1 Steele residence, corner of i Fifth and Madison streets, and will • move his family here from Bluffton 9 Thursday of this week.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, March 14, 191 G.

THE LAJA GIRLS That Tripped the Burlesque Boards and Smiled Their Sweetest ON MEN AUDIENCES I In Ft. Wayne Sunday Were Under Scrutiny of Men’s Christian League. That Decatur males, from those

i scarcely out of knee trousers and curls jto those who have gray hair or no | hair at all. may not have the opportunity much longer of seeing a Sun- > day burlesque on the stage in Fort i Wayne is inferred from the following 1 in the Fort Wayne Sentinel: I “Little did the la la girls know as . they trapped the light fantastic in two Fort Wayne theaters Sunday, and smiled their sweetest upon the audiences of men, that they xvere being watched and their every act closely 1 scurtinlzed by representatives sent there for that purpose by the Men’s Christian League. “Officials of the league would give | out no information regarding the two \ burlesque shows. Prof. F. M. Price, president of the league, admitted that he had instructed Fred E. Todd, chairman of the civic committee, to have representatives at the two performances, but had received no report from him up to a late hour. Mr. I Todd refused to confirm or deny, dej daring he had nothing to say. I "That the Men's Christian League I has under consideration a movement |to stop the Sunday burlesque performances is believed to be very evi- ! dent from the fact that they are being j ' investigated.”

WAS FOUND HERE I —. ! Stolen Horse and Rig, Ohio City Outfit, Left at the Baker Feed Yard — IN THIS CITY Wrong Clue as to Other One —Owner Came To- j day to Cet it. I After working on a wrong clue, given because an employee of the Riverside feed yard stated that a horse and buggy, tallying with the description of the outfit stolen at Ohio City Saturday, had stopped at their feed yard Sunday evening for a couple of hours, j later driving away south Sheriff Green found that the horse and rig was left i at another feed yard in this city, that j of the Baker formerly the Schlickman ! feed yard corner of Monroe and Third streets. It was there that the owner, W. H. Robinson of Ohio City, called this morning to get the same. The rig was driven to the Baker stables Saturday noon by a woman who left it and never returned. It is • .1 j l x it t 1

presumed that she and the man who! hired the rig at Ohio City, drove here 1 and left on some train. The stranger! a man of above medium height, with | black mustache and very well clothed hired the outfit at the Robinson yard at Ohio City Saturday under the pretense that he desired to transport hi 3 wife and child to the home of a relative, whom he claimed lived near the Hertel church. The suspicions of the owner were not aroused until Sunday' when the case was reported to the officers. , The one which an employee of the: Riverside feed yard in this city,; thought tallied with the stolen rig, was found to belong to parties living in this county. Mr. Robinison, who came here this morning, was accompanied by Van ; Wert County Sheriff Herman Gunsett. > Mr. Robinison identified the outfit • here as the one stolen from him and I he drove the same home. No clue ; leading to the identity of the thieves was found. ASSEMBLY DANCE TOMORROW. The regular weekly assembly dance 1 will be held at the Masonic hall Weds nesday evening, starting promptly at ] eight o’clock. The admission is fifty i cents per couple. Good music and a good time.

NO GERMAN TROUBLE. (United Prens Service) Washington, March 14,—(Special to Daily Democrat i Trouble between the United States and Germany over the sinking of the Norwegian bark Sillua is altogether unlikely, it was said on the best of German authority today. Should It be proved that a German submarine torpedoed and sank the hark without warning, endangering the lives of seven American sailors, Germany, It was said, would tndoubtedly disavow the act of the submarine commandir and make all reparation required. CARD OF APPRECIATION. 1 wish to express my appreciation to the voters of Adams county who, knowing I am a cripple, so heartily

s supported me in this recent cam- ) paign. A. MOSER. | PETITION FILED ! For Macadamized Road Through Eiting Farm, Renewing Contest. NUMBER OF SIGNERS Is Increased to 342 and the Road Name Changed to “Catherine Eiting.” A petition for macadamising and establishing a new road southwest of the city through the Eiting farm, was refiled yesterday. The road was the j cause of a big contest a few weeks ago and will be well remembered, the road being called the John W. Myer' j road at that time. Under the new

| petition the road will be known as the “Catherine Eiting road ’’ The old petition it will be remembered was sign- : ed by over two hundred, but was dei seated by a remonstrance circulated !hv Henry and Ben Eiting. Immediately afterward those who want the road, started a new petition, which was filed yesterday and will he j presented at the next session of the commissioners. This one is signed by 342 freeholders and < fizens of Washington township. The Eitings will oppose the petition, it is stated, hut [ just what action will be taken they i have not announced. The proposed , road begins at the northwest corner iof section 8 and terminates at the northeast corner of section nine. A petition to vacate the angular road, . which has been used for years, signed by twenty property owners from that section of the township has also been filed, it being proposed to straighten the road out and macadize it straight across. The outcome will be watched with much interest as nearly everybody in this locality , knows about the contest being waged. S SUDDEN DEATH : Came to Charles Sampson in Wisconsin—Former Decatur Resident. BODY TO ARRIVE

I I Here Tomorrow—Will be | Taken to Home of Son. Lewis Sampson. street, this city received a message tostreet till scity, received a message today telling of the gudden deatli of his ' father, Charles Sampson at Belluntis, Wilconsin. The death occurred Satur- ■ day but no details have been received, j Tlie remains will arrive here Wednesj day and will be taken to the home of Sampson. The deceased is survived by six children, Mrs. Millie DickI ie, Mrs. Susie Huges and Mrs. Katie Lawhead of Fort Wayne, John Samp- ! son of Grand Rapids, Nelson Sampson, Fort Wayne and Lewis Sampson of this city. Mr. Sampson lived here a number of years ago and will be well remembered by the older citizens of

Decatur. The funeral arrangements have not been completed, awaiting till arival of the members of the family. ——— o — TENNIS CLUB TO MEET t The Decatur tenni3 club will moat r tonight at the Frisinger and company i office. All members are requested to be present.

A LITTLE LOWER ► \ Are Appraisements This Year — Averages of Valuations FOR THE COUNTY Is Struck by County z\ssessor William Frazier from Reports Made. County Assessor William Frazier has

- completed his averaging of assessments, for the first week, showing that . the valuations this year are not quite as high as last year, which will be gratifying to property owners. The assessors for each township reported the averages of their first weeks’ appraisements, and these in turn were averaged by Mr. Frazier giving the average valuation of property for the county, as follows: Horses and Mules $94.43 Cattle $34.65 ! Hogs $ ,5.57 1 Sheep $ 5.54 Automobiles 252.10 Farm implements and machinery 55.58 j Household furniture $41.88 .TWO AVERY TRACTORS SOLD The Dowling-Shuey hardware com- 1 pany has sold and delivered to Wil--1 liam Barrone and William Gerke, the I well known and hustling farmers of Union township, each an Avery tractor j The Dowling Shuey company has the 1 agency for the Avery tractor and will no doubt put a number of the labor i 1 and time-saving machines in the fields ; this spring. | o

SCHEDULE GIVEN Schedule for State Championship Games Given Out Today AT BLOOMINGTON Much Interest Being Shown in Outcome of the Games. Bloomington, Ind., Mar. 14—Accord- , ing to the announcement of President ,j J. H. Shook of the Indiana High ; School Athletic association, the fol- , lowing is the official schedule for the i j games at Bloomington Friday and ■ i Saturday to decide the basket ball . championship: Friday Morning. 9:00 a. m.—Bloomington vs Lebanon. 10:00 a. m.—Washington vs. Martinsville. 11:00 a. m.—Liberty Center vs. Elk- * hart. Friday Afternoon. 2:00 p. m. —Hopewell vs. Lafayette. 3:00 p. m. —Cicero vs. Valparaiso. 4:00 p. m.—Brookvillo vs. Vin- ] cennes. 1 5:00 p m.—Kokomo vs Seymour.

Friday Evening. 7:30 p. m.—Clinton vs. Crawfordsville. 8:30 p m.—Winner at 9 a. m. and winner at 10 a. m. Saturday Morning. 8;00 a. m.—Winner at 11 a. m. and winner at 2:00 p. m. Friday. 9:00 a. m.—Winner at 3 p. m. and winner at 4 p. m. Friday. Saturday Afternoon. 2:00 p. m.' —Winner at 8:30 p. m. Friday and winner at 8 a. m. Saturday. 3:00 p. m.—Winner at 9 a. m. and winner at 10 a. m. Saturday Evening. 8: p. m. —Winner at 2 p. m. and winner at 3 p. m. The officials will be Merle Abbett and Bert Westover, both of Indianapolis. The men will alternate, Abbett 1 handling the first game between Bloomington and Lebanon and the final contest to determine the cham- ! plon :

BUSINESS MEN TONIGHT. The regular semimonthly meeting of the Decatur Merchants’ association will be held at the library at eight o’clock this evening and the members ■ are requested to be present. The ' year closes the first of next month and i arrnagements should be made soon 1 for the annual meeting.

PLANS BIG CLUB INCREASE. (Unttea 1-vess Service) Indianapolis, Ind„ Mar. 14—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The honor of Indiana is to be upheld by women, according to Miss Edna Henry, chairman of the, membership committee for Indiana, of the national conference of Charities and Correction. The commitee met today for the first time since its organization early in February. Last year the National Confeience of Charities and Correction was held in Baltimore and as an incident to the entertainment of, the body, the Maryland social workers obtained more than 600 new members. When Miss Henry was made chairman of the Indiana membership committee, she set the mark at 1,000 and served notice that her committee would be composed entirely of women.

SISTERS_ MEET Mrs. Stella Hensen Returns ! to Laporte After Visit , Here With LONG LOST SISTER j | Sisters Are Reunited After Fourteen Years—A Happy Reunion. Mrs. Stella Hensen, who left this afternoon over the Erie for her home at Laporte, has had the happiest visit of her life of twenty-one years. She spent several days with her sister, Wavie, aged fifteen, at the home of Mr. and Mra. Freeman Evans at Mon roe. The girls met for the first time in fourteen years last Thursday, when Mrs. Hensen came to visit here, the girls having learned only a short time

ago of the whereabouts of each other. They were left orphans at Knox, when they were very young and each placed ,in different families. No record was kept of their assignment and it was quite a long time before they finally , located each other. The reunion came about when Mrs. Hensen came here to j visit with Wavie, who is attending : school, and could not readily go at j this time to Laporte. They are planning to meet again soon. Wavie is the foster daughter of- Mr. and Mrs. Evans, who will take steps soon to legally adopt her. Mrs. Hensen, who was taken by a family named Grun : del, has been married three years and lives at Laporte. ! « STARTED WORK. .; Twelve men and three teams started work excavating for the new creain- ' ery building foundations this morning. The work will be hurried along so that , the bricklayers can commence work [ upon the opening of good weather. I Several citizens got up earlier than usual this morning to see the breaking j of the ground for the new building. MEET HERE TODAY Official Board of Adams County Sunday School Association IN REFORMED CIIURCH

a c Hear Various Reports and c Fix Dates of the Town--1 ship Conventions. t A council of the Adams County Situ- , day school official board and other; was held this morning in the Reformed church in this city. Jeff Lehman, of i Berne, who is president, presided, and Miss Martha Gilliom, secretary, was also present. Other members of the official board in attendance were C. C. Bierie, Mrs. E. M. Ray, Mrs. F. D. Huff of Berne; Mrs. Eugene Runyon and the Rev. L. W. Stolte, of this city Reports of the various officers were submitted and the dates of the several i' Sunday school township conventions - were fixed. WILL GO TO GENEVA.

A number of Masons from this city : will go to Geneva tomorrow evening to attend lodge. A supper will be . given at 6:30 at that place, the boys i leaving here at 5:30 via the Jitney. ! Two candidates were initiated here 1 last evening and another will be giv- . en the third degree this evening, following .the regular stated session.

Price, Two Cents.

GIVE A MUSICAL) “Blackman Entertainers” Will be at High School Assembly Room on ' _____ THURSDAY EVENING Will Give Vocal and Piano Solos, Readings and Humorous Sketches. The higli school authorities of the

Decatur higli school have arranged witli the Blackmans to give an entertainment at the high school assembly room on Thursday evening, March 16, a part of the proceeds of which is to go to swell the high school stereopticon fund. This will he an entertainment of high order and one that will be greatly appreciated by all musical people. Mrs. Blackman is a talented musician and elocutionist. She has studied the

Mrs. Blackman.' 1 fdano under the best artists of America and the great masters in Europe, where she sojourned for two years, ’ studying the piano. She was a pupil of Xaver Scharwenka, who pronounc- ’ ed her to be a musician of rare ability. Her training in elocution was un- ’ dertaken in New York and Baltimore, where she delighted hundreds with ’ her humorous and pathetic renditions. ’ Mr. Blackman possesses an excellent musical bass voice, flexible and 1 lyric in quality. Mr. Blackman has Mr. Blackman.

appeared on the various concert and Chautauqua platforms and has delighti>(i„ his audiences wherever lie lias gone. The following notices have been made of the w’ork of the Blackmans in the press: The Union City Times has this to say; “After reading in the Times about Mrs. Blackman and her studies in Berlin, the musical center of the world, of course, much was expected of her. She not only met all expectations but far surpassed them. Such piano playing is not often heard in Union City. Mrs. Blackman is an absolute master of the piano. She played the wonderful Liszt arrangement of the quartet from ‘Rigoletto,’ which, with its labyrinth of technical difficulties requires an executant and finished proficiency, yet Mrs. Blackman played the number with a sureness and delightful ease which with her artist’s use of values made the piece a real joy. She was given an ovation

by her delighted hearers who would : not let her go until she played another ! selection, Chopin’s beautiful waltz in i A-flat, which she took at a tempo, yet played with such a clearness that the , audience fairly held its breath.” The Kalamazoo News says; “The audience was greatly delighted with rContiiiufcd — on Rage *•>