Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 81, Decatur, Adams County, 4 April 1916 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Kvary Evenlna Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company LEW Q. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rataa Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier *5.00 Per Mouth. by mall 26 cents Per Year, by mall *2.60 Single Coplea 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the Postofflce in Decatur, ndlana, as second-class matter. SOME FIGURES TO STUDY:— Persons who imagine there is any dissatisfaction in the democratic party in Indiana over the state or national administration might study the election figures of 1912 when these administrations were elected and then in 1914 after two years’ service. In 1912 Woodrow Wilson* the head of the ticket, got 281.000 votes In this state. Two years later Senator Shively, the head of the ticket, got 272,000, or nearly 97 per cent of the ; number received by Woodrow Wilson two years previous. If it had not been for the factional trouble in Marion county, causing a democratic slump of 8,000 votes, Shively would have received 99 per cent of the votes cast for Wilson. Never In all the political history in Indiana has the head of a ticket in an off year election received 97 per cent as many votes as ; were cast for the party the preceding election. And this applies to both the republican and democratic party, and we invite the doubting to look back | over the election figures for forty ! years. The first two years ot any administration are hardest on a party ( and thi3 was especially true during t the Wilson regime, as every business or governmential ill of any kind was , charged to the tariff or other legislation. Since the last half of the Wil- j son administration has been of unequaled prosperity, with currency law not only a success, but also a proved preventative ot panics, and' with the , Income tax art! internal revenue accepted as necessary to maintain our establishment, there is every indication that the administration has been gaining strength every month. No unwise laws to injure business have been passed and there are no important measure affecting business proposed. No change is desired and there will be done. —New Castle Tillies. And Villa got away. We thought he was going some for a man with a broken leg. and now it develops that it was all a ruse to permit him to dodge the American soldiers, who were pressing him hard. The democratic county chairmen of the state are meeting today to select the district chairmen, who, by Virtue of their offices, are members of the state committee. The meetings today are most important and the men chosen will be real leaders es their districts. We expect and hope that the selection in this dis-

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trict will be that splendid organiser and square politician, Dill Kunkle. ■' "uwuuwuinumxuuwiitmwuwm a jj DOINGS IN SOCIETY l ;»tHnrnmottmHimmirnmmtnca J WEEK'S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Wednesday. Concord Aid society—Mrs. John Christen, Decatur. Shakespeare Club—Mrs. Jane Cralibs at J. H. Heller home. Thursday. Euterpean—Mrs. Fred Patterson. Parcel Post Sale—Old Laundry j Bui Wing. Program to be given. Presbyterian Ladies’ Aid Society— Meets with Mrs. J. C. Sutton. Methodist Missionary—Mrs. D. D. Heller. Friday. Zion Lutheran —At schoolhouse. Historical Closing—K. of P. Home. Saturday. Pastry Sale at Gas Office —U. B. Ladies. Queen Esther's Mite Box Opening —Mrs. O. L. Vance. The Presbyterian Ladies’ Aid society will meet Thursday afternoon with Mrs. J. C. Sutton on Sixth street. Life. Life! 1 know not what thou are. But know that thou aud I must part; And when, or how, or where we met I own to me's a secret yet. Life! We've been long together. Through pleasant and through cloudy weather, ’Tis hard to part when friends are dear— Perhaps ’twill cost a sigh, a tear; Then steal away, give little warning. chose thine own time Say not "good-night,” but in some brighter clime Bid me "good-morning.” Mrs. Adolph Schamerloh and childhen, Arthur and Harry, went to St. John’s this afternoon to be the guests ot her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bultemeier, over Sunday. Mrs. John Shafer and Mrs. Edgar Gerber went to Fort Wayne to be the guests of friends. Miss Virginia Olds invited about ten ot her most intimate friends to a very informal party at her home on Berry street last evening. Miss Olds left today with her mother, Mrs. Margaret Olds, for New York City, I where Miss Olds wiil study dancing j for several months. —Fort Wayne j Journal-Gazette. The Euterpean club will meet Thurs-j day evening with Mrs. Fred Patterson. Mrs. John Parrish will conduct the study. The Presbyterian ladies wil have their social Thursday afternoon at the home ot Mrs. J. C. Sutton. The annual congregational busine-s meeting of the Presbterian church, closing the year's work, will be hold at the church. This will be preceded by a tl o’clock dinner served in the church parlors. Mrs. Jane Crabbs will be hostess to the Shakespeare Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. H. Heller. Mrs. Oscar Hcffman and Mrs. Sim Burk were shoppers in Fort Wayne yesterday and attended the show n the evening. Mrs. J. C. Hanna and Mrs. Wilson Lee left this morning for Warsaw to attend the Fort Wayne presbyterian convention of the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary society. The Elzey school, taught by Miss iva Spangler, closed last Friday with a big dinner and an excellent program.

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• In the afternoon the Ma’.louee school, taught by Miss Erma Houk closed to tho uit-uibt'i's and teacher to attend the ■ Klzey school festtlvtties. The ten® has been a most successful one. ; 4 I Mrs. John Niblick will have the proj grain for the Shakespeare club tomorrow afternoon when Mrs. Jane Crabbs entertains at the home of Mrs. J. H. Heller. Mrs. Niblick will 1 tell of her two months’ trip through the southwest, dwelling on Califor- , ilia in general and tho exposition at San Diego, as well ns of her visit in Yosemlte valley and the Grand Oanyou and other points in th* 1 west. She will have pictures illustrating the same and a fery interesting meeting is expected. Mrs. T. M. Keid told of another feature of the western trip last.week, and of the San Francisco fair. Mrs. C. E. Bell had a very fine paper on "Mothers of Famous Men” yesterday for the Research club at the home of Mrs. Mary Eley, the subject being taken np further in the discusI sion«. Mrs. L. A. Graham will entertain next week. There will be but two more meetings of the club. WHO IS MATTIE? ” (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE* ers. In all probabilities the woman in question was Mattie Schlagul of this city. The description furnished by the Fort Wayne police tallies closely. The woman arrested in Fort Wayne was sixty to sixty-two years old. five feet five or six inches tall, very hump shouldered, with a scar on the right cheek. She claimed to have four children, three girls and one boy. In a hearing in the city court this morning before Judge Wavelaud Kerr she was released and ordered to get out ot town. She started toward Decatur. When Mrs. Schlagel left Decatur she wore a black silk dress and a white hat. Tiie Fort Wayne police say the woman arrested wore a black silk dress and a white hat. SMALL ROOF FIRE. Fire, from an unknown cause, did a dollars’ worth of damage to the building owned by Jesse Niblick, and occupied by Rol Smitlcy on Patterson street. Owing to the excitement of the person who sent in the fire alarm the fire department was led astray. Reporting the fire on Line street, the alarmist misdirected the department, j and finding no fire there were again misdirected to Vine street, where | again the populace was in blissful igi.uorance. After searching for about I twenty-three minutes for a fire ot qusetionabie authenticity, the department was finally direety rightly and arrived on the scene to find a hole a foot in diameter burned in the roof. Be sure you’re right, then send in an alarm! Fire at Linn Grove. A fire in the basement of the Hoffman drug store at Litin Grove Sunday evening was nipped in the bud before it did more than $25 damage, the loss, however, being covered by insurance. It seems to have originated from a cigar stub which probably burned its way through the floor and 1 fell into the oil tanks. The blaze was fortunately discovered before great damage was done. p - ■ ■ — FOR SALE. Corner lot known as the Kennedy property, located corner First and Rugg streets, Decatur, Ind., size 82x 1 132, plenty of room for two houses. three and one halt squares from the 1 court bouse, price *1,250, sewer and I street improvements paid. 41tf. ED S. MOSES, Executor. Henry Thomas, who jumped from 1 a wagon and injured his heel, is able . to get around again. 1 .i.i 1 »— ji. 11 ; 1 i_.

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ROAD CONTRACT )■ - ■ 1 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) , W. B. Martin 6.998 . CUyis McAfee B.RTO. . L. W. Frank & Sun «».»;GO 1 Roy C. Steele 6,889. [ Chris Musser 6.768 I Merrymau & Fugate 6.557 1 u. O. Bears 6.829 The contract was lot to L. TV ■’rank & Son, and J D. Nhllinger was 1 -ppointed superintendent of construe - i ion. The petition of Catherine Kiting el il. was found to bo for a road ot pub > lie utility and benullt. the petition , signed by more than 325 qualified per , sons, aud the same was ordered spread if record. This is the road petition d, that has appeared under the My ■rs name before, and which was re munstrated down by Henry Eitiny and others. COURT HOUSE NEWS. Real estate transfers, Otto Reppsr to Frank R. Brown, 80 acres of Union township, $12,400: William Scherer t< Bessie E. Hill, lot 67. Monroe SISOO Peter Stuckey, et al to David L. Rey noids. 80 acres of Hartford towuship $7500; Nellie K. Sparling to George O Staiey. real estate in uabash township SSOOO. Henry Heckman lias recorded hi farm name as "Oakland Farm. Sheriff Ed Green left this morning for Richmond, taking with him Hen ry Schwartz, who is insane again. Judge D. E. Smith went to Bluff ton today. Sam Wvatt. who was cited to show why he did not comply with a deorei in the divorce of Lillie Wyatt, rela tive to the support money, made a showing and agreed to pay the same and the cause was continued. In the matter ot the James K Martz et al. petition for a drain the motion to strike out tho separate re monstrance of Kalver and Fred Stauf ter. was sustained, to which they ex cepted. Ten days’ time was given to file exceptions. Sarah A Fisher vs. Benjamin Kish er, case ordered left off the docket. Ralph Baumgartner et a!, were found to be heirs of Jacob Baumgart ner and each entitled to $94.09. which sums had been turned into the state by the county clerk. The case of J. Frank Knepper vs Thos. E. Kroner has been reset toi April 12. BRITISH BOARD SHIPS AND IMPRESS GERMANS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) troops were cavalry or infantry. Gup rral Funsten took this action, it wav intimated, in order to strengthen hi: lines of communications. It is generally believed here that the sth cavalry constituted this reinforce ment. Reports recently have indicated that there has been some anxiety as tc the line of communication.- While the Villa expedition has driven stead iiy southward, the trouble in mam ’ taining the line has increased with ev l cry mile the advance column has cov : ered. More and more automobile . trucks have been plowing their way i across the waste land from Columbus l to Casas Grandes. Berlin. April 4.—(Special to DailyDemocrat)The Greek government 1 have requested the Allies to withdraw : all military establishments from the town of Salonika according to Athens dispatches today. • El Paso. April 4,—(Special to DailyDemocrat)—American troops today 1 were approaching the Durango state line south of Chihuahua City on Villa'. ' trail. Their swift advance surpri; il border officials. Friday Col. Dodd’s cavalry appeared at San Antonio, Mexico. At the time Villa, with only eigiii men passed through Satevo. about fifty miles south of the American vanguard. He was reported to be fleeing for his cid haunts in the Durango mountains. The American dispatch bearer who arrived with this information today reported 15,000 Carranza troops moving from Torreon to Chihuahua City. The movement was unexplained. AGAIN TONIGHT. Charles W. Payne pleased a large crowd at the Central school building last night with his lecture and stereostioon ou Hawaii. The crowd was well taken of by a few extra well placed seats. Touight Mr. Payne will talk on Mexico, and without a doube it will be decidedly iatercstsog because of the fact that all Americans arc much concerned over that country. Single admissions jat 10c and 25c, Don’t fall to hear and I see Mr. Payne. 1 Democrat Want Ada Fay.

0 STATUES IN EUROF’EAN CITIES China* That Impreaaed English Author Whan Ha Visited Capitals of Germany and Buaala. It Is interesting to recall at the presant tlina, when Russia aud Germany are warring, what Lewis Carroll, the author of ‘Alice in Wonderland.’ wrote In his diary of Berlin and Petrograd, the rival capitals, during a continental tour ha took as long ago us 1867-oven before the Franco-Prufitau war After commenting upon the enormous number of statues In Berlin, Lewis Carroll goes on to say that one >( the types of statue most frequently seen Is "the colossal figure of a man rilling, about to kill, or having killed 1 the present tense is preferred) a >east. A dragon In the rorrect thing. >ut if that Is beyond the artist, he may :onteut himself with a Ron or a pigTho beast killing principle has been tarried out everywhere with a releutuss monotony, which makes parts of lerlin look like a fodsil slaughter louse." lie ceuttnues his tour, and eventualy comes to Petrograd. This is bis doicription. "There Is a fine equestrian itatue of Peter the Great near the adniratty; the horse Is rearing, and has 1 serpent coiled about his hind feet, f this had been put up in Berlin Peter vculd, no doubt, have been actively -ngaged in killing the monster, but tere he takes no nolico of it; in fact, he (UlllhK theory is not reeognDed maJon Tit-Ults. WHEN THE PEONS PROFITEO American Soldiers* in Their Progress Through Mexico, Threw Away Silver Money Too Moavy to Carry. On the only occasion when American soldiers and marines got further han Vera Cruz on the Job of “cleaning up they threw away money on the march and paid as much as $1.50 for a canteenful of water. That was in the days of “wooden ships aud Iron men,” when General Scott's army marched from Vera Cruz 10 Mexico City. There was a company of marines from the San Jacinto with the army. Instead of the present-day khaki they wore blue with white belts chat had to be carefully pipe-clayed. The marines, deprived of the grog that Uncle Sam served them daily ou shipboard, in that year of 1846. suffered greatly from thirst on the road to the capital. Water was scarce, and sometimes they paid as much as $1.50 for a canteenful. They had been paid in silver before starting from Vera Cruz, and finding that the money was too heavy to carry they threw It away. The peons along the way profited from that march. Another “Voyage of the Sunbeam.” Lord Brassey has placed at the disposal of the government of India his steam yacht Sunbeam, which was also utilized for the same purpose last autumn tn the Mediterranean. - There can be very few yachts in commission which have seen so much active service as the Sunbeam, for it must be more than forty years since the first Lady Brassey made the ship a household word by her account of a voyage round the world in It. A few years ago. it will be remembered, the gallant old yacht was entered for a transatlantic race f~r sailing yachts, f.nd miple quite a good showing among the younger and larger boats, though not the first to reach the goal. The stanch old boat now fitted with steam, though retaining her masts and spars for sailing, paid a visit to Montreal harbor four or five years ago. under the command of her noble master, who is a properly qualified sea captain. Chance for the Battered. An ancient, storm-battered British trawler, with leaking sides and a wornout engine, is worth more to the owner these days than a new spick and span craft with equipment, a dry hold and fast engines. Similarly the one-eyed • 3kipper, who had a hard time getting a , job before the war. is in more demand than one without physical defect. The reason for this is that all serviceable trawlers and able-bodied skippers are snapped up by the admiralty. 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