Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 86, Decatur, Adams County, 10 April 1916 — Page 1

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HUSTLE SUPPLIES q . —™ Base at Columbus is Speeded Up to Handle the Supplies for Force. STRENGTHEN LINES Rumor Persists That Troops Will Not Enter Durango State After Villa. (United Press Service) (By E. T. Conkle, United Press Correspondent) El Paso. Tex., April 10 —(Sepcial to Daily Democrat) —Reinforcements and supplies for the American expedition continue to pour into Mexico today from Columbus as if there was no prospect of withdrawal soon. Actively bent on catching Villa, departments here were speeded up also In the purchasing and forwarding of supplies. To keep pace with the rapidly lengthening line of communications the wireless station at Nutniquipa has meen moved farther south. The field telegraph already extends to Galeana. In the meantime Villa is south of the Durango state line, which rumors persist is the "dead line” beyond which President Wilson is reported to have promised Carranza the United States forces will not pursue Villa. San Antonio, Texas, April 10 — (Special to Daily Democrat) —General Funston announced today that the line between General Pershing’s swiftly advancing front and the border will be strengthened at once and that the Columbus base will be retained. Tentative plans for the removal of the Columbus base to a point farther south on i’ue border have been abandoned. Among the new troops to go south «j4l be the detachment of the 2<tb. infantry, colored, which had trouble with the citizens at Del Rio, Texas, last night resulting in the killing of a negro trooper by state ranger Parler. “I have ordered the transfer of the negro troops at Del Rio to duty on the line of communication in Mexico” stated General Funston today. "We'll let them work off their excess energy down there.' El Paso, April 10,—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Hanging doggedly on Villa's trail, the United States cavalry was today in the desolate Sierras around Parral. At least 24 hours march ahead of his pursuers, Villa, has two hundred men and fresh mounts were at a mining camp in Durango state. That Villa is fleeing at top speed to join the Arrieta brothers, who have three tho’usand\followers around Durango City, was the ( information sent to the border by officials of the American Mining Company at Parral. Villa passed Parral on Saturday. Washington, April 10, —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Hope for breaking up the Villa band grew today—exactly a month since issuance of orders send ing General Pershing’s riders across the border. Army men thought code letters from San Antcnio headquarters may bring news before the week ends that the bandits have been scattered by the death or capture of their leader. The “warm trail” they blieve Is growing warmer, though actual news of operations was lacking over Sunday, San Antonio, Tex, April 10 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Continuing their drive toward Parral American troops today were believed to be almost on the heels of Pancho Villa. .The bandits whereabouts is not definitely known but officials at expeditionary headquarters said they would not be surprised to learn of Americans reaching Parral today. Parral is the reported objective of Villa’s flight. SCHOOL°CENSUS The school enumerators today began their annual taking of the census. The work must be completed within twenty days. Remember the more children of school age you can report, the more of the state school funds will be apportioned to Adams county schools. SPECIAL INTERURBAN CAR. A special interurban car will leave the Decatur station tomorrow evening at 6:45 for Fort Wayne for the K. of C. meeting at the Palace theater. Tickets will sell for fifty cents for the round trip.

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I DON'T LIKE THE IDEA. I I see in the Wednesday Daily Democrat, where the Civic Improvement society wants to fix up and improve . the old cemetery and make a park of it. Well, as for a park I would say "No,” and so would a great many others. It would be all right to dean up and beautify the old cemetery by sowing grass and planting some flowers. But, honest, now. who would y find any pleasure in a park made there even if all graves that are marked were removed. There are any num5 ber of graves that would be hard to find now. Perhaps those who wish for a park there have no friends or dear ones at rest in the old cemetery and I don’t think they would care to spend any time there if it was made into a park, but if it is used for . a park, then I say let. our officers enforce the curfew law and see that I no one loiters in the park after 10 o’clock p. ni. By doing so may save ’ many an innocent one from being led ’ astray. Well, clean it up, sow grass, > plant a few choice flowers, and let s the dead rest in peace. “CONTRIBUTOR,” WHITE SLAVERS . Working in Northern Indiana Towns —Organized Gang Has Officials ON THEIR TRAIL Recent Scare Here Not Confined to This City— South Bend and Gary. The recent scare in this city, when a strange woman who came here last winter, was thought to be working in the interests of the white slave gang, does not seem to be confined to this city alone. From South Bend comes the following dispatch: United States District Attorney L. Ere Slack, of Indianapolis, is on the trail of an organized gang of white slavers, said to be operating in northern Indiana cities. Acording to information in the possession of the federal official the white slavers have for the last two years beed boldly operating between South Bend and Chicago, at Gary, Hammond and East Chicago. Charges filed in the United States court at Hammond, presided over by A. L. Surprise, against Frank Morando, aged 26; Frank Marsalo, aged 27, and Mabel Fuscho, aged 21, are to the effect that they have been transporting girls from Chicago to Gary for immoral purposes. The men have been placed under bonds of $5,000 and the woman under a bond of $2,000. —o SERVICES TONIGHT AT 7:30. The lenten services at the St. Mary’s Catholic church will be held at 7:30 this evening, instead of Tuesday evening. The services will consist of sermon and Members of the parish are requested to note the change in the meeting. REV. J. A. SEIMETZ. Pastor. FELL FROM MOW Chauncey Sipe, Member of Late Regular Jury Panel, Badly Injured. : CUT ON THE HEAD 1 ——w . And Shoulder Dislocated — Regains Consciousness Sunday for First. Chauncy Sipe, aged twenty-eight, a prominent young Blue Creek township farmer, who was a member of the re- . gular jury panel for the last term of court, regained consciousness yester- ( day for the first since a severe Injury . he sustained Friday night. He had ; the misfortune at that time to fall a s distance of fifteen feet from his haymow. His shoulder was dislocated and the bone slivered, and a big gash was cut on his head. His father-ln-B law, J. M. Foreman of Blue Creek township, w’ho was in the eity this B morning, states that he is better today, i- and his physician states that unless s blood clot forms on the brain, he will' probably get along all right.

0. LAISURE DEAD I Orman Laisure Died at Winchester late Saturday Afternoon. BURIAL AT MONROE From the Friends’ Church Late This Afternoon— Arrives at 3:09. Orman Laisure, well past eighty, died at his home in Winchester late Saturday afternoon after a long illness of a complication of diseases. The relatives phoned friends here that the body would be brought to Monroe Monday afternoon on the 3:09 Grand Rapids and Indiana train and that short funeral services would bo held in the Friend’s church in Monroe immediately afterward, the burial to. be in the Smith cemetery one mile south of Monroe. Mr. Laisure was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, and at an early age came to Adams county with his father. He has resided here many years, going to Winchester, upon his retirement, some fifteen years ago. He died exactly three weeks after his brother, William. At that time he came to Monroe to attend the funeral services of his brother. Upon his return home he was forced to go to bed. and grew- gradually worse until dea'h came. He is survived by one sister, Mrs. Mary’ Everhart, of near Monroe, hts wife and two sons, Bert, living east of Monroe and David living west of Monroe. seethTWes “On the Firing Line With Germans” Shows the Flight of Refugees. AND ARMIES IN ACTION Devastation and Real Warfare Clearly Depicted— Great Show at Crystal. Reproduction of German and Aus-tro-Hungarian activities in Russian Poland will be shown at the Crystal theater under the supervision of the Decatur Daily Democrat on Wednesday, April 19, in eight and one-half reels of film, taken in the devastated country swept by the Teutonic forces in their recent assault against the Russians. They tell a story of suffering among aged men, women afld children forced to flee during the siege of their town, and returning to find their homes ruined either by shell, fire or the torch applied by the retreating forces. "On the Firing Lino With the Germans,” or a more appropriate title might be, "The Adventures of a Press Photographer in War-ridden Europe,” for in fully 50 per cent of the film. Wilbur H. Durborough, one of many photographers from this country, who figures in the pictures, is shown conducting a somewhat personal tour over the ground from the time he leaves for the battlefield until after the fall of Warsaw. With him the spectator visits the soldiers’ camps, stadns alongside the kaiser, the crown prince and crown princess, when he commends some officer for bravery, examine the different types of guns, from the rapid fire to the heavy motors, view the surrounding country from an observation balloon, visit the wounded in the hospitals, bury the dead in the battlefields, watch the convalescing soldiers go through a course of gymnastics under the instruction of a scientist, see them return t<T the front to fill the gaps made by other wounded and dead and inspect the ruined forts and bridges. Accompanied by an Austrian, German or Hungarian officer newly acquired territory is visited, and a tour is made through the evacuated Russian trenches and underground strongholds that resemble hunting lodges rather than places of safety from flying bombs. The German engineers construct a ►pontoon bridge in full view of the spectators and later stretch telephone I and telegraph lines of communication

Decatur, Indiana, Monday Evening, April 10, 1916.

! between stations on the field of battie. To the accompaniment of martial strains from the orchestra charges on the buttle field are shown, these t pictures are not poses, but actual, realistic, awe-inspiring occurrences and possibly the qaddest of all it the exodus of refugees from their homes on foot or in carts with as many of their belongings as they can < carry—cattle, horses, pigs, geese and ‘ dogs precede or follow their owners to places of safety. The first show will start at 11:00 ‘ a’clock a. m.„ Prices, 10 and 25c. PUBLIC is" INVITED.” The members of the Methodist church and the general public are invited to attend the prayer service on • Wednesday evening from seven to > eight o’clock at the church and the , farewell reception for the Rev. D. T. Stephenson and family, which will immediately follow. o MEN WALK OUT Clover Leaf Section Men Walk Out Early This Morning. DEMAND $1.75 A DAY Claim They Will Stay Out Until Demands Are Granted. Between five and six hundred section men on the Clover Leaf railroad, working along the line betw’een Toledo, Ohio and Saint Louis, Missouri, walked out this morning at six-thirty o’clock demanding an increase of twenty-five cents a day. They had been paid at the rate of fifteen cents an hour. They want one dollar and seventy-five cents a day. The walkout includes every section man in the employ of the road executing the track foremen who are not es fected by the demand. Walking delegates representing union organizations have been quietly organizing the m?n, it is aserted, and the climax came this morning with the refusal of the men to work any longer for a dollar and a half a day. The track foremen were forced to patrol their sections alone. About eight o’clock a special train, carrying several huindred foreign laborers went west over the Clover Leaf but it is not known whether they are to replace the American labor or not. No effort to supplant the local section crew has been made yet. Six to eight men are affected by the strike in Decatur. The same number are out al Bluffton. The men say they intend to stay out until they get their increase in wages; the railroad officials say nothing. Just recently the operators on the road won a signal victory in their demands for a raise in wages, being granted a ten percent increase in wages with a minimum when they threatened to go out. BURBEB DEATH Verta Jane Barger, Wife ol Jacob Barger, Dead of Heart Disease. WAS SUDDEN DEATH 1 - • — i Funeral Services to be Held Tuesday—Burial in Maplewood Cemetery. > Mrs. Verta Jane Barger,, wife of Ja--1 cob Barger of Kirkland township died ’ suddenly Sunday morning following a ■ short illness of neart trouble. Mrs. ■ Barger was bom in Ohio on November ! 9th 1875 and was the daughter of Savanah and Obedan Shimer. Her death was unexpected as she was in good health the previous week. She is survived by the husband and the following children: Mrs. Albert Roth, living east of Decatur, Nellie, I Herman, Leia and Harold at. home. , The funeral services will be held . from the home in Kirkland township Tuesday at 12:30 o’clock and then at t 1:30 o’clock from the Antioch church, »■ the Rev. Glendenning officiating. Bur--3 lai will be in the Maplewood cemetery i at Decatur.

STEALING BOXES s —— 3 i. Me’chi Captures Pair of e t Thieves That Have Been Stealing Boxes 1 1 FROM LOCAL STORES They Had Privilege of Paying for Boxes or Going t to Jail. i , The crew of box thieves that have > been operating in the city for several • weeks past ran up against a post Sat--1 urday night when Marshal Seph Melchi caught a pair of them lugging off a 1 valuable box from one of the local stores. The boxes in which merchandise is shipped have a value of from fifty cents to one dollar and it has been the habit of merchants to leave them tn the open. Lately they have been missing the better grade of boxes. Melcni, keeping watch, saw two men carry ope away and folowing them located their headquarters. Provided they paid for the box they would be let go, said the merchant that missed the box. They probably paid as no affidavits have been filed.! The men used the boxes for kindling j wood. Several that had been stolen I previously were found chopped into small pieces and stored in their wood shed. LIBRARY BOARD MEETS There will be a meeting of the library board tonight commencing at seven thirty o’clock at the library building. THE SICK my r Interesting Drama Will be Given by Twenty Tiny Jots of THE LOYAL LEGION I I Os Temperance Thursday Evening at the Methodist Church. I A drama. “The Sick Baby”, that promises to be very entertaining, will be given Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock at the Methodist church, by twenty tiny tots of the Loyal Temperance Legion. There will also be other numbers to make a very good entertainment. for which fifteen cents will be charged for adults, and ten cents for children under fourteen years of age. The legion which was organized under the direction of Mrs. C. F. Kinna, has had a remarkable growth, and i now has more than two hundred mem- I bers. The drama will be similar to 1 the Tom Thumb Wedding given a year ! or so ago, and the' twenty characters in the cast, are: i The Sick Baby, Jakie—A Doll. | Mrs. Worry Much— Margaret Williams. Dr. True —Gerald Williams. 1 Daisy Worry Much— Edna Swearenger. Henry Worry Much—Arthur Ford, Jr. Bridget Malloney—Helen Eady. Mr. Worry Much (who never worries at all) —James Leonard. J Mrs. Come Often—Mildred Leonard. ' Daughter Sukie —Mary Jane Devors. , Mrs. Careful—Jestine Hocker. Daughter Rachel —Margaret Jane Hoffman. Mrs. Want to Help—Monal Butler. Mrs. Say Little —Louise Quinn Daughter—Betty Hoffman. Mrs. Fly Away Home —Alma Stephenson. Mrs. Fidget—Helen Rilling. Mrs. Have a Good Time —Martha Sellemeyer. Mary Bean,, nurse —Margaret Belle Atz. Besides the afore mentioned drama, . there will also be a good program given as follows: 1 Piano Solo —Ireta Butler. > “Temperance Traia” —Don Stephent son, Don Farr. , “When My Papa Comes Home So- - ber” —Beulah Pumphrey, Alma Stepiir enson, Lillian Worthman, Helen Elzey, Martha Sellemeyer, Edna Swearanger.

I Song, "Rock-a-Bye-Birdic” — Tiny | Tots. Closing, "Saloons Must Go” —Song by Legion, with piano and trap drum , accompaniment. GOES ON ROAD. Howard J. Wisehaupt left the city this morning on his first trip in the interest of the Decatur Filler company. He will sell goods for this firm during the summer and next winter will again probably take up the evangelistic work he has been following. During the past winter he has spent twelve weeks in various Indiana cities doing evangelistic work and has made himself successful in this lino of work. PRESIDENT IS ILL. 'United Press Service) Washington, April 10, —(Special to 1 Daily Democrat) —President Wilson, suffering from a very troublesome cold, cancelled all his engagements today and remained in the whte house. The president contracted the cold last Friday. FORM GIRLSCLUB Miss L. M. Gaddis of Purdue University to Form Girls’ Club in KIRKLAND TOWNSHIP Farmers’ Institute Offered Prizes at Their Last Regular Meeting. i The organization of a girls club in Kirkland township will be undertaken at school house number 4 two miles south of Peterson on the afternoon of Friday, April 14th, commencing at one thirty o’clock. Every girl in the township who wishes to join the club should plan to be present at this meeting so as to become a charter member. Miss L. M. Gaddis, of Purdue University will be present to talk to the girls and explain club plans and the work to them. All of the women cf the township are also urged to meet with the younger folks and aid in the organization of the club. Miss Blanche Yaney, of Kirkland township, is acting for the township as local leader and she is receiving considerable aid from the agricultural associations now organized there. The , farmers institute offered lists of prizes 1 for boys and girls club work at th'ir last meeting and a spirit of progressiveness is being manifested throughout the county.

CHURCH SERVICE TONIGHT. Instead of holding the Tuesday evening lenten service tomorrow evening it will be held tonight at the St. Mary’s Catholic church. A large number of the Knights of Columbus together with Father Seimetz, desire to attend the lecture at Fort Wayne tomorrow evening. APRIL JVEOOING Nuptials of Wai Wemhoff and Miss Helen Weber Will be Solemnized AT THE CATHEDRAL In Indianapolis in April— Banns Were Read for First Sunday. The banns were read yesterday at the St. Mary’s Catholic church, this city, for the first time, for the approaching wedding of Wai Wemhoff, son of Mrs. Mary Wemhoff, this city, and Miss Helen Weber, of Indianapolis. The date of the wedding has not yet been made public, but it will be some time in April. The wedding will be solemnized in the Cathedral, Indianapolis, where the bride, who is well known here, having visited here on several occasisons, resides. Mr. and Mrs. Wemhoff will make } their home in thic city, having leased one of the Erwin houses on South First street.

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'TO RETURN HERE 11 I ■ JI ’ Rev. Rilling Returned by Conference to Decatur Evangelical Church. 1 CHANGES ARE MADE At Berne and Linn Grove— I Appointments Read at Ordination Close. I Decatur people will rejoice that tho , I Evangelical conterence has returned to the Decatur Evangelical church the Rev. J. H. Rilitng. Changes were made, however, in the Berne and Linn Grove charges. Rev. J. A. Mosier succeeds Rev. D. A. Kaley, who goes to Mizpah church, South Bend, and Rev. B. G. Smith goes to Linn Grove instead of Rev. D. R. Heil, who is sent to Defiance, Ohio, and Defiance ciri cuit. Rev. E. O. Habeggar is returned to the circuit here, which has S&- , lem and other churches thereon. Rev. D, O. Wise returns to the Mt. Carmel church, Louisville, Ky., and Rev. A. B. Haist to the Huntingburg church, Huntingburg, Ind., April 10—Impressive ordination services were held at the Emmanuel Evangelical church , here yestreday where the Indiana Conference of the Evangelical association has been in session since last Tuesday. Bishop L. H. Seager, D. D„ of Napierville, 111., delivered the sermon to the candidates, taking for his subject, “The Cross and Victory.” ; The following junior preachers were ordained as preachers: Rudolph Wise. Olney, Ill.; Orville Lozier, Bremen; F. W. Launer, West Salem, Ill.; Harry Meyer and Herbert Eberhardt. both of Indianapolis. Those ordained as elders were: George Lozief, Bremen, and George Pullman, Rochester. The Rev. George Lambert, Elkhart, a prominent minister of the Mennonite, assumed the vows of an eider, but was not ordained as he presented his license to this office from the Mennonite church. Mrs. Charles Hartman of Indianapolis had charge of a popular missionary service Saturday night at which the Rev. S. J. Umbreit, superintendent of missions in China and Japan, was the speaker. People from Indianapolis who attendIcd the convention during the Sunday services included Mrs. Sophia Katterhenry, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Eberhardt, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hartman, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Meyer, Mabel Spires and Edward Kramer. Pastor Given Credentials. At the session Saturday the Rev. I L. Newman, South Bend, had credentials voted him with a view to transferring to the Texas conference, where the bishop appointed him a

presiding elder over the work there. The Rev. F. F. McClure of Wabash withdrew from the church at his own request. The Rev. E. A. Haley, Celina. was retained in the itineracy one year without an appointment. At the close of the ordination serv* ice Bishop Seager read the appointj ments, which follow: Fort Wayne District. K. W. Metzner, presiding elder; Avilla and Hopewell, M. O. Herman; Berne, J. 0. Mosier, and C. R., E. O. Habegger; Bippus, F. C. Wacknitz; Celina, F. A. Hartman and C. R., J. Reese; Dayton, First church. D. E. Zechiel; Dayton. Wayne avenue, C. A. Hirschman; Decatur, .1. R. Rilling; Defiance and C. R., D. R. Heil; Defiance, Nad Hickcville and W. H. Flurkey; Edgerton. 1. C. Steele; Fort Wayne, First church, E. Q. Taudeman; Fort Wayne Srescent avenue, C. E. Boyer; Greenville and St. Paters, J. E. Young; Huntington, R. W. Loose; Kendallville, J. H. Evans; (Linn Grove, B. G. Smith; Markle, C. W. Schlemmer; Phillipsburg, W. H. Mygrant; Portland, J. Arndt and C. H. Baumgartner; Ridgeville, G. F. Zuber; Scott, J. H. Heldt; Van Wert, B. S. Schuenneier; Waterloo and t Markle Zion church, A. Geis; Wol--5 cottville, A. B. Aegerter. Indianapolis District. S. H. Baumgartner, presiding elder; Altamont and Camp Creek, P. H. Ha- ’ ney; Bunker Hill, A. W. Bender; Braziil, E. G. Johnson; Carmi, W. E. Snit der; Cicero, C. A. Wright; Cam- , bridge City and East Germantown, , !w. L. Wcyant; Elberfield, J. W. Fel- ’ ansvllle, M. L. Scheidler and Miss J. ,|G. Roederer; Grayville, George S. Lozier; Enterprise, to be supplied; Ev- ; zier; Huntingburg, A. B. Haist; In- ? dianapolis First church. J. H. Breish; Indianapolis, Second church, L. J. j Eberhardt; Indianapolis Grace church, (Continued on page 2)