Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 121, Decatur, Adams County, 20 May 1916 — Page 1

Volume XIV. Number 121.

CLASS OF TWENTY-NINE FINISHES-TO BEGIN THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT—PROF. JUDD GIVES FINE ADDRESS.

+++++++ + + + + + + + + CLASS ROLL. + + + + Chalmer Orien Porter, Adrian + 4* J. Baker, Celia M. Andrews, John + + C. Baltzell, Lydia A. Beineke, + + Joe L. Burdg, Blanche Edna + 4- Biggs, Herold E. Kirsch, Noja C. + + Bryan, Walter Jennings Krick, F + Bessie D. Davis, Charles F. Me- + + Cullough, Grace E. Gerard, Ish- 4* + mael Macy, Ruth Ellener Gilbert, + + Edgar L. Moyer, Inez Marie + ♦ Hays, Hope B. Hoffman, W, Alex 4- + Sutton, Helen Kienzle, Paris + v Denny Vizard. Merle D. Poling, + 4- Mary Ethel Potts, Mary E. Ray, + 4- Hazel B. Schnitz, Mabie Marie 44- Shoaf, Imo Charlotte Sowle, 44 Zelna C. Stevens, Vera M. Stout- 4- . 4- enberry. 4-4-4-4-4‘4-4-4'4'4-4-4>4-4- + "Finished —Yet Beginning.” Probably every one of the twenty- | nine young people had their ciass motI to in mind last evening, when at the I close of the thirtjMifth annual com- | me-ncement exercises. City School SuI perintendent C. E. Spaulding present- ■ I ed them with diplomas, showing that I I they had “finished” the prescribed r course of the Decatur high school. I I and were now' about to “begin” the I real business of life. Prof. Charles H. Judd of the UniverI sity of Chicago, in his lecture, also | carried out the idea of the class mot- , to. and presented many excellent [ thought# that should be of inspira t lion to them, when he gave his adI dress on “The Cultivation of InitiaI tive.” | During the assembly of the large p audience at the • opera houjse, | Jioembke’s orchestra of Fort Wayne F played, and also supplied the musical ■ program during the commencement ex- ■ creises. Nevin’s “Mighty Lak' a. ■ Rose; ” Bagley’s march, “Our Nation- ! lal Emblem;” Donizetti’s sextette i ■ from "Lucia Di Lammermoor;” ■ ■Jentes’ “Put Me to Sleep With an Old-! I Fashioned Melody,” were orchestral | fc numbers given; while Harvey Sawyer S'gave “The Holy City” as a trombone B The class, as has been the custom E for several years, wore gray caps and ■■owns over their evening costumes K- the girls’ dainty dresses of white, ■ with corsage bouquets, and the boys’; p conventional suits. Both boys and , girls wore white shoes. They were, in a semi circle of two rows I • on the stage, when the curtain arose, i and during the exercises, and with | . •! sat Professor Spaulding and the’ I others who took part in the program. The class colors of red and white, in-' ! terwoven in canopy effect over the ( | stage, with tne flower, the red rose,; i ns floral decorations, added beauty to i /the scene. | t Rev. F. F. Thornburg of the Meth-, Sadist church gave the invocation and ■jP-.ofessor Spaulding introduced TroBhtssor Judd, who gave the address. ’ Brief, but to the point, the address ’ had many things commending itself to the attention, interest and instruction of the audience. “T He said in effect that the young ESbeople would find the world vastly different from that of the sheltered * BShcol life. In school, they were asked "What do you know?’’ In the world, they wal he asked, “What can you do?” To illustrate, he told of an effective cartoon, in which the world, represented by grim, gruff La- - bor as a man. asked the sweet girl graduate her name. “Mary Jones, A B„” she replied. "Well,” said the Labor-World, “I will take you and teach you the remainder of the alphabet.” R With education is acquired timidity and fear of criticism, and it is in attitude that the graduate too often ' J jibces the world. He touched upon it In detail, and then spoke of the other initiative to be cultivated instead—that of optimism. g The very knowledge of those difficulties, those laws of nature against which the fight of life is eternally made, should be the power to work in one for their overcoming. One should be afraid only of ignorance, of all things that one cannot master. Having a knowledge of them, one

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■; should keep on acquiring, and mas- ■ ter with the power of optimism and • the life of courage. > Following the lecture Prof. M. F. 1 Worthman. principal of the high 1 school, presented the class to Super- ’ | intendent C. E. Spaulding, who gave ■ a short talk before presenting the di--1 plomas. His talk carried further the theme -of Professor Judd. He enlarged upon the class motto. There is no such thing as “finished." he declared, but one is ever growing, and he named three stages in life's development; unconscious inefficiency; conscious inefficiency; unconscious efficiency. The purpose of school life to develop and open the way for the greatest efficiency was exemplified. Following the benediction by the Rev. J. C. Hanna, the graduates received a large number of their friends at the Masonic hall. The hall retained the beautiful decorations from the junior reception. The senio* colors. red and white, in the reception room; the high school colors, purple and gold in streamer effect in the large ball room, and the juniors’ colors. gold and white, in the dining I room, in dome-like effect, were beautiful and generally admired. The ball room wasthrown open immediately and Roembke’s orchestra played for the dances that closed with “Home. Sweet Home,” at 12:30. During the evening punch and wafers were serv-1 ed from two tables over which pre-1 sided the Misses Josephine Myers, l I Ruth Hubbard and Ruth Frisinger. ,Vnd Masters Ralph Tyndall, Dich Archbold and Wayne Spaulding. •THE A NATION” A portrayal of the actual conditions of the White Slave traffic as it is today. A film carrying a message to; ; every father, and mother, every young 1 man and young woman in the nation I See the dangers of the crooked path. ’ | See the results of folly- This three reel show, including forty slides and a lecture by Dr. Eugene DeWitt will be shown at the Crystal theater Mon- ■ day night. Admission five and ten cents. Don’t fail to see this story yourself and bring the family. Don’t i be silent on a question menacing the ! very foundations of the future of our 1 nation. GEORGE B COX DEAD (United Press Service) Cincinnati, 0., May 20—(Special to , Daily Democrat) —George B. Cox, for- ‘ mer political ruler of this city and I one of the republican leaders of Ohio, idled at his home in Clifton early wI day. Cox suffered a stroke of paraly--1 sis on February 29th and within the la :t few days pneumonia developed and he began sinking rapidly. Mrs. Cox and Garry Bliss, a close political friend of the former leader, was at his I bedside when the end came. Cox had no children. ATTENDS SISTER’S FUNERAL F. F. Freeh and son-in-law, Frank Mclntosh, left today for Findlay, 0., where they were called by a message of the death of Mr. Freeh’s oldest sister, Harriet Powell, which occurred Thursday. She wase seventy-sevsn years of age and is survived by six children. The funeral will be Sunday afternoon. ! TO TEACH AT WREN, O. /. — Miss Mary Erwin, daughter of At- - torney and Mrs. D. B. Erwin has ,-e---i ceived word from the school board at i Wren, 0., that she has been appointed t teacher of a primary grade there. Miss '' Erwin has accepted and will begin " i duty the first of next term. She has I been a teacher in the county and city schools here and was very successful. t .. ERROR MADE. „ An error was made yesterday in the f list of eighth grade graduates’ name. . It should have been Helen Stanley ;n---e stead of Zelma Stanley-

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, M y 20, 1916.

SLIDES IN USE I Children Make the School Yards Ring With Shouts of Happiness. , ZACH DEVER FIRST To Shoot Down Boys’ Slide at Central — Children Should be Careful. The slides are up and are being' used. If you doubt it, go over to the school yards and listen to the shouts of the children, hear them laugh, and i see if you don’t agree that they are ‘ having a fine old time. The slide at the central building was turned over ’ to he children at 4:30 yesterday aft-1 > err. on end there were present about i pre ‘-'.n.l eji children, big and little, | 1 ready to test it out and they were ’ t soon going in great style. Zach Dev-; i ers was the first boy to go down and ' . on the girls’ side, Miss Eva Acker, a ' . 1 teacher in the grades, tried out first, | ! after Wes Hoffman, who helped to 1 , erect the slide, had tested | . the slide. The fund is now $312.00, and those who have i not paid are requested to do so at 1 . (n< e. so that payment can be made. I , If there arc any who have not given 1 . 1 feel like they want to. they can do 1 so by sending the money to this of- . flee oi to any .member of the com-! mittee. While, the amount subscrib- 1 ed pays for the slides there is still' some expense for freight, drayage and the cost of putting the slides up. The . - children are asked to not try to stand , up or go down head first. There is absolutely do danger if the children I use the slides as they should. 0 GOOD OLD HORSE ■■■ • ’ Hangs to Her Own—There - Are 9,322 Horses in Adams County < 1 AND 789 AUTOMOBILES I p I: — ‘ ( County Assessor Wm. FraI zier Totals the Assess- . ment Reports. < Automobiles are fast gaining in i number, but the good old horse has I ’ not yet been nearly supplanted, ac- : cording to the figures totaled by ’ ■ County Assessor William Frazier from i ' i his reports from the township asses-' < sors. |' There are 9,322 horses in the county, their valuation for assessment being $700,911. The total number of automobiles is 789; assessment vahi- , 1 ation being $161,352. , In the townships there are 581 auto- , I mobiles, valued at $113,060, making an average price of $195. In the ’ towns they number 208, with a total ■ assessment value of $48,302. Decatur has 82 automobiles, valued . at $18,375. [ Berne, 56 automobiles, valued at $13,807, Geneva, 41, valued at $10,992. Monroe, 29, valued at $5,130. In the townships there are 9,084 1 horses, valued at 683,397, or an average price of $74. In the towns, the horses number 238, with a valuation of $17,514. or an average price of : $73.60. , The total number of households as- > sessed is 3.9-12. t The total assessment values of j various other personal property in j th" townships and towns, in detail. { follow: Townships. ' Cattle, 15,750; value, $382,065; average, $24. Hogs, 27,285; value, $132,118; average, $5. Sheep, 4,593; value, $21,383; aver- “ age, $5. t Farm implements, 1,871; value SBO,;1 070; average, $43. a Household goods, 2,491; value, SBO,t! 198; average. $32. s Towns. T Cattle, 180; value $7,547; average, $42. Hogs, 212; value, $1,233; average, $5.80. Sheep, 22; value, $110; average, $5. e Household, 1,451; value $724.32; ’• average, SSO. i- The total appraised valueation of the country’s live stock is $1,639,418.

’ METHODIST PROGRAM. . The Co-workers’ class of men, F. W. Downs, teacher, will have charge of the services at the Methodist < hurch Sunday evening, May 21, beginning at 7:30 p. m. The music will be under the supervision of Wilson F. Beery. The program follows: Song, "Holy, Holy, Holy’’—Congregation. Prayer—Morris Hays, Song, "I Am Wandering Down Life's Shady Path.” Address, “A Message to Men”—O. L. Vance. Song, “Am I a Soldier of the Cross?”- Congregation. Song, "Redeemed”—Male Choir. Address, “The Christian Life” — Henry B. Heller. Song. “A Charge to Keep I Have” —Congregation. Song, "Beloved Now Are We the Sons of God”—Male Quartet. Closing, “All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name.” Benediction —W. J. Myers. fl GREAT MEETING Was That of Democratic i Chairmen and SecretarI , ies at Indianapolis. TWO DAYS’ SESSION — Outlook for a Wonderful Victory in November is Bright. Say Leaders. (By Willis S Thompson.) Indianapolis, May 20—(Special to Daily Democrat I—Senator Thomas Taggart and others who have been through many political campaigns in Indiana, declared that the session c-f county chairmen and secretaries, which has been in sesion for two days, is the best organization meeting ever held in the state by any political party. Showing their live and active interest in the affairs of the party and their confidence in the success of democracy in November, chairman and secretaries grom all the counties in the state came and remained for the full session. Their enthusiasm could hardly he said to be secopl to that of the delegates of the state convention, which was composed of the livest wires who ever assembled to name a state ticket. While the audience at the democratic' club cheered his admonition, at the close of the last session State Chairman Korbly impressed the one central idea of all organization: “When you go home carry the bulls-eye of the whole businss in mind and shoot at that bullsye all the time. Get every democratic voter in every county and every precinct in Indiana to go to the polls on election day and we will carry this state by a handsome majority. Get all the republicans who endorse Woodrow Wilson and who indorse all the splendid things done by our national and state administration, to vote the democratic ticket and the majority will be overwhelming. Let everything we do from now until November be aimed at this bullseye, lei every move be made with the notion that, it is going to work to the one end and we will have demonstrated in results that this is the greatest political organization meeting ever held in Indiana.” Most of the chairmen and secretaries arrived early Thursday morning, and after registering at state committee headquarters and confering with chairman Korbly and secretary A. CSallee with reference to political affairs in their home counties they took luncheon at the Denison hotel, which was the stopping place for the two days. After lunrhenn a reception wls held at the Indiana Democratic Club, from which place automobiles conveyed the 300 who attended the meeting to the first business session at the West Shore Club. This meeting was addressed by Senator Thomas Taggart, Congressman John A. M. Adair, Bowman Elder president of the democratic club, and others Senator Taggart and Congressman Adair were given splendid receptions full of genuine democratic enthusiasm. Senator Taggart spoke es-' pecinlly on the work of organization. "This is the best meeting of this' character in point of numbers and good spirit of earnestness that I have ever attended”, the senator told them. “You are the men upon upon whom the party depend for success and you (Continued on Page 4.) ”

SlililS COLLIDE I t ■ New Overland Belonging t< I a Mr. Carr Nearly Totally Wrecked. RUNS INTO FORD Belonging to Wm. Marton, Standing on Road South of Peterson. A Ford William Martin and a new Overland out on its third trip, and belonging to Mr. Carr, were badly wrecked last evening about six o’clock when the Overland ran into the Ford which was standing still on the road, near school district number lour, two miles south of Peterson. With Mr. Martin in the Ford were Homer Andrews and his man employee, and all were thrown irom the car with the force of the collision which sent' the Ford to the side cf the road. The Ford had the rear wheel torn off and the axle bent.. W.th Mr. Carr in the Overland were his two sons, about twelve and fifteen years of age. One had his eye bruised and the other was shaken up somewhat. The Overland is said to be nearly totally wrecked, the frame being badly twisted among other things. Mr. Carr was driving south and is said to have been going about twenty or twenty-five miles-an hour. TO GIVE PROGRAM The women of the Presbyterian church will be in charge of the program for the services Sunday evning at 7:30 o’clock. A JOINT “MEET Preble and Kirkland Township Will Hold Sunday School Convention AT BEULAH CHAPEL Sunday, May 28 — Rev. Stolte and Hon C. J. Lutz the Speakers. The following program is announced for the joint Sunday school conventions of Preble and Kirkland townships, to lie held at Beulah Chapel, Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock, May 28: Prayer —Rev. Glendenning, J- F. Lehman. Song. Address, “Parents’ Responsibility to Sunday school” —Rev. L. W. Stolte. Song. Address, "Temperance Work in Sunday School”—Hon. C- J. Lutz. Song. Benediction —Rev. Glendenning. DANIEL SCHERRY, Secretary. WOMAN'S PROGRAM. The program to be given tomorrow, night by the women of the Presbyterian church is: Organ Solo—Mrs. Paul Baumgartner. Song—Choir. Song—Choir. Scripture Reading—Mrs. Dyke Frisinger. Prayer—Mrs. J. C. Hanna. Song—Congregation. Paper, “Women of the Past and the Present Day”—Mrs. S. D. Beavers. Solo —Mrs. P. B. Thomas. Reading—Mrs. A. M. Anker. Offering. Song - Congregation. Benediction. THE STORK’S STOP A girl baby was born at noon to- ■ day to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Venii!of North Ninth street. This is the j first child. The mother was former ly Bertha Baker. NOTICE. ■ The boys who decorated my fence I I with T 9 In black paint should re 1 ( move same in a few days to avoid i prosecution. 11. 11. BREMERKAMP

Eg. a. r. committee I At a regular meeting of the G. A. R , held this afterndon preliminary ar rangements were made for Decorat for 0 day services on the part of the loca post of tlie Grand Army of the Repub lie. The old veterans intend to observe I the day. with its significant associations, until the final taps is sounded ) even’if no parades can be held. Many : of the members are so old that it is a physical impossibility for them :o I, march. | Just what arrangements for the celebration of the day will be made will be l»ft to the committee in charge. 1— o REMODELING UPSTAIRS 11 Carpenters are busy remodeling the upsairs of the Morrison building, now fc occupied by the Bert Hunsicker grocx ery, and when completed the flat will 0 be occupied by Mr. Hunsicker as a 1 residence. It is thought that the work r will be completed in two oi three ■ weeks, 5 I>— FOOR DAY COURSE f — [• ! County Agent A. J. Hutch- \ ins Manages to Secure Big Course *i 1 FOR ADAMS COUNTY Only Four Such Courses to be Held in the State This Year. i 1 1 That Decatur is to have a four day ■ I „ short course on agricultural subjects ’ | land that only three of four such • courses will be held in the state during this year was evident this morninf. when a special investigator for t i Purdue University left the city well 1 satisfied that Adams county farmers and business men were genuinely in- ! terested in the movement. j County Agent A. J. Hutchins can be I complimented for having secured this I excellent course for Decatur. The four day course is exactly the same as the one held at Purdue each ( winter for the farmers of. the state and it is being placed in three or tour t other localities of the state to give i farmers who are unable to pay for a trip to Ihirdue to have the special work also. In the four days from six to eight ’ men and two women will visit Decatur to give special work in live - stock, their care and propagation, dairying, horticulture, poultry, soils, housekeeping, economics, horses, and in fact classes in any specialized i ; branch will be treated. | Special demonstration stock is car-' I ried along. A team of Belgians, each ’ I weighing over a ton, and worth more ' than three thousand dollars, will be 'i brought here for demonstration purposes and judging. Cattle, sheep, hogs and poultry demonstrations will also j be held. Three special night lectures, illus- ' trated with slides and photos, will be! ; provided. During the day sessions ’ the lantern work will also be giver. I on appropriate subjects. | Farmers from Northwestern Indiana ' are to be invited to come to this 1 course. It will mean that Decatur j will he the host of several hundred 1 farmers the week of the short course.! j No short course, like this, will be held ■ in this vicinity of the state and •he. ! advertising will cover a quarter of the 'state. Let every Adams county farm- , er get behind the county agent on iths and boost. Do it nowOBITUARY. o__ - Robert Hogan Galbreath was born June 8, 1850, in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, near New Comberstown, and peacefully departed this life May 15. 1916, at 11:10 p. m., at the home of his sister and niece, No. 2033 South Calhoun street, Fort Wayne, Ind. He was the son of Samuel and Jane Hogan Galbreath. At the age of ( three months, together with his pars ents he came to Newville, Ind , a I short time later moving to Adams e | county, near Decatur, where almost r ’ his entire life was spent. He leaves two brothers, George W„ cf St. Louis, Mo., and J. C., of Denver, Colo.; one sister, Mrs. Harriet Mann, e j and the following nephews and e-1 nieces: Wilda Dean, Mrs. E. Gilbert, d! George and Desaie Mann, and Mrs. i L. B. Boulton, at whose home he died.

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. Gl’LGflßlfl MAY ■/ ENTER THE WAR ■j.! i Rumor Has It That Bulj garia Will Enter War on > Germany’s Side. a o HAS MADE TREATY iSaid to be Commercial, But i Believed to be Political • in Nature. I (United Press Service) ‘i Washington, I). C., May 20 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —A rumor was t in circulation here this afternoon that i Roumania is near a break with the ! allies as a result of her recently negotiated commercial treaty with Germany and Austria. One report said ■ the French minister to Roumania had I been recalled. j The German semi-official news agency yesterday declared that the Russian government had taken steps to learn exactly what was contained in the treaty negotiated by Roumania, ' suspecting that they were of political 1 importance. The Berlin agency said the Russian foreign office had author- ; ized a statement to this effect. BULLETIN. i London, May 20—(Special to Daily Democrat) —German seaplanes raided i the east coast and the county of Kent at 2:00 o’clock this morning. The war office announced that one person was killed and two injured by German bombs. One of the raiding planes was brought down near the Belgian coast the war office announced indicating a thrilling pursuit by Engish planes, in the darkness above the channel. Three German seaplanes took part in the raid. Their bombs wrecked a saloon and damaged several dwellings , but did no military damage, according to the war office. About 37 bombs were dropped. A I soldier was killed and a woman and ! a sailor were injured. London, May 20 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The Germans are preparing for a big offensive on the Belgium front, according to several dispatches from Holland today. Trainloads of men and ammunition have been moving toward the Belgian front for three days. Heavy guns are reported to have been concentrated on the line from the coast to Ypres ns if for a renewal of the attempt to reach Callas. Air scouts are becoming increasingly active. Paris, May’ 20—(Special to Daily I Democrat) —The greatest aerial activity on both sides was reported in toi clays’ official statement from the war office announcing unsuccessful German attacks on the Belgian front and in the Champagne regions, but no infantry fighting at Verdun. German aeroplanes bombarded the i French seaport town of Dunkirk and I the town sotuh of Dunkirk, killing six ; persons and wounding 38. In reprisal , French air squadrons attacked enemy camps and a Belgian squadron bomI barded the German aerodome many bombs reaching the mark. TO WITHDRAW Columbus, New Mex., May 20 — I (Siiecial to Daily Democrat) —Withdrawal of the sixth cavalry from internal Mexico is part of the new patrol plan decided on by the United States according to information here. By this plan, heavy patrols to cover , the entire 2200 miles of the Mexican border are to be inauguarated. This I will be the principal feature of the L new police policy. | Strong military posts will be fixed 1; along the border on bases for the pat- ! rols for the present. From several f points the soldiers will police the bor--i 1 der, riding in sufficiently strong col- . umns to repulse any attack and withe in supporting distance. These pats rols will be drawn from the state mil- •! itia and from regulars now in the bora . der, reinforced by such troops as ire 8 withdrawn from inner Mexico for that 11 purpose, according to information S ‘ here. The troops now in Mexico will / 'be gradually withdrawn. A system of truck trains, similar to j' that in use from Columbus south into i Mexico will be used to keep these patL ! rols in touch and to supply them in .! — (Continue? an f-age *.)