Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 128, Decatur, Adams County, 29 May 1916 — Page 1

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A NOTE COMING? ————M Conflict Over Whether or Not Mexican Note is on Its Way. FIGHT TWENTY YEARS —J Russia Intends to Fight Twenty Years Unless Germany Accedes. (Uni’M Service) Washington, D. C., May 29—(Special to Dally Democrat) —A conflict as to whether Carranza has or will address another formal note to the I'nited States developed here today. Senor Arrendondo announced the arrival of Manuel Mendez reported to be bringing the communication from Mexico City, but said Mendez knew nothing of any note. Contradicting this was a telegram from Consul Rogers at Mexico City, saying a communication to the state department is on its way and declaring it should have reached here yesterday. Rogers' message last week declared it to be his indirect information that Mendez was the message bearer. Mendez says he is on a vacation enroute to New York City and Niagara Falls. He said he only came here because he read in a St. Louis newspaper that he was bringing a note to Washington and that he wanted to learn if Ambassador Arrendondo had any instructions for him. Senor Arrendondo explained that ( he is expecting a transcript of the report of the Scott-Obregon confer- ' once, probably bj mail, and declared ho knows nothing of any note. Columbus, New Mexico, May 29— • (Special to Daily Democrat)—At the coming conference with General Pershing, Carranza general Gavira is expected to suggest further withdrawal of the American expedition toward the border. By calling attention to the concentration of Carranzista troops in Chihuahua, Gavira expects to make the suggestion more pointed in the opinion of military men here. Today no word had come from Gavira as to the date of the conference which probably will be held at Casas Grandes. Mexico City. May " 29-(Special to Daily Democrat)— Conflicting reports were in circulation here today regarding the 8,000 word message being carried to Washington by a special messenger from General Carranza. One report said that tije message was a note addressed to President Wilson. The Mexico City newspapers heard they would be allowed to publish the note tomorrow. Later this report was denied and it was stated that ng formal note was enroute to Washington. Officials refused to comment on either report. London. May 29-(Special to Daily democrat )-Brisk fighting between the Greeks and Bulgars occupying several points along the frontier, followed the invasion of Greek territo-y by the Bulgars. Paris. May 29— (Special to Daily Democrat)- In a five hour battle waged last night on the west bank of the M ,. nse two most violent German attacks from the Corbeaux woods, west of Cumieres were completely repuls 'd, the war office announced today. (By William Phillip Simms.) Copyright 1916 by the U. P. Copyright in Great Brittan. Petrograd. May 29—(Special to Dally Democrat) Russia will fight twenty years until Gewnanv is forced to accept the Allies terms of peace. Michail Rodzianka. president of the Russian Duma, told the United Press in an exclusive inter- - iew today. F’<' scoffed at the danger <.f a revolution in the Czar’s empire. •There is no peace party in Russia,” said Rodzianko. “This is a German lie. The Duma is solid in its demands that Russia continue the fight un.il Germany puts her cannon in a pile and accepts the allies’ conditions." Hmo paperYomorrow There will be no issue of tire Daily Democrat tomorrow, on account of it beinS Decoration Day. The news of the day will be covered in Wednesdays paper. Practically every business house in the city will close tomorrow.

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| JAMES FULTON DEAD. James Fulton of Portland, a widely known business man. died at his homo in Portland Sunday evening at , 5:15 o'clock after a short illness. His wife is a sister to Mrs. Robert Blackburn of this city. He was fifty-six years old, and Is survived by the wife, one daughter and two sons. R. M. Blackburn of this city went to Portland last night. two infantTle DEATHS. Wanda C. Hendricks, five hours' old child of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hendricks, died yesterday afternoon from asphyxia, due to cardiac inability. The burial services will be held in the Ray cemetery. _ • A still born child was horn to Mr. and Mrs. Ira Baker late Saturday and burial services were held yesterday. WAS BADLY HURT Fred Thieme Injured When Buggy Overturned — Horse Frightened EAST OF THE BRIDGE Mr. Thieme Had Four Ribs Broken, Shoulder Hurt, Cut Under Eye. Fred Thieme, one of the best known farmers of Union township, was quite badly injured Sunday afternoon. He was bringing a son to this city to be treated by a physician | and when they reached a point just | east of the Monroe street bridge some young fellow or. a motorcycle, apparently trying to show his skill as a driver, drove straight at Mr. Thieme’s horse, dodging off as he got just in front. The horse swerved and overturned the buggy, throwing the occupants to the ground. Mr. Thieme had four ribs broken on his right side, his shoulder badly bruised and a deep gash cut under one eye. He was taken home and is reported to be getting along nicely. The boy escaped injury. It was not learned who the young man on the motorcycle was. ■H» — 1 ■■ o — - victorious virtue. “The Victory of Virtue” a widely advertised film that was to have been shown at the Crystal last Monday, and which was delayed, will be shown at that theater tonight. The show is five reels in length and deals with a problem of interest, but in such away that the strongly told story appeals to every person seefttg the show. It is not a problem play in any sense of the word, but an interesting story, strongly told, and beautiful pictorially. See it tonight, this return date will be your last opportunity. Five reels, five and ten cents. RECEIVEJEGREE Luther M. Boyers Receives Degree of Doctor of Medicine from STANFORD UNIVERSITY Student There Nine Years, Winning B. A. Degree After Four Years. Monday, May 22, Luther M. Boyers, son of Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Boyers of this citv. received his degree of Doctor of Medicine from Stanford LDiversity, t aiiiornia. He has been a student there for nine year), laying ■n excellent foundation for his career as a physician. After four years he received the degree of B. A. and near ly five years later the degree of M. D. He will spend the next year or two I acting as interne in a hospital, where , he will gain further knowledge ai d experiei.ee in his profession. IS BETTER AGAIN. Dr. C. V. Connell, who has been suffering from blood poisoning in his ' arm, and who suffered a relapse Frif day and Saturday, when erysipelas ■ set in. is better again. He had been - able to come down town for a short - while when the relapse set in, bringing bis temperature up again.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday Evening, May 29, 1916.

CAN’T FOOL US n - t r ’ Women’s Rouged Faces » Can’t Fool the Men Says Rev. Roy L. Smith. 1 WELL KNOWN HERE i Chicago Pastor Was Manager of Redpath Chautauqua Last Year. I A Chicago dispatch says of Ret. Roy L. Smith, of .Chicago, who last • year was manager of the Decatur 1 Redpath Chautauqua, and is well known here: “Ever since Adam lost his rib our Eves and Morns have been piling Ossa on Pelion with a dauntless daring that has caused an ensuing Adam to swallow his well known apple. “It is all over The time-honored woman's right has been found to be a wrong. It remained for a courageous Chicago Adam to burgeon forth with a denouncement of the practice of piling Osso of rouge on the Pelion of powder. Harken: “ ‘Rouge and powder don’t fool any one except the wearer. The best beauty doctor in the world is fresh air and sunshine.’ “These anarchistic sentiments were hurled by the Rev. Roy L. Smith at an audience composed entirely of women, who instinctively raised their hands to their faces. “‘Oh. no, no; I don’ mean you,’ added Mr. Smith. ‘1 mean some girls jon the west side. You see, I am a ’ married man, and I feel I have a right to talk about that.’ “Mr. Smith, who is pastor of St. Paul's Methodist church, made the remarks in the course of a talk on the ‘High Cost of Low Living,’ before the Young Women's Christian association." Mr. Smith's sermon above mentioned, was delivered here at Chautauqua one Sunday evening. THE COURT NEWS Judge Smith and Jury Hearing a Case for Demand of Rental. PETITION TO SELL Real Estate in Margaret Myers Estate—One Case Dismissed. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Foreman who called on tbeir daughter. Della, 9, at the hospital .'in Fort Wayne, Sunday found her getting along nicely. Her physician thinks that she can be brought home Wednesday, by which time she will have been a patient at the hospital three weeks. A sale of additional bonds on the Bricker road in Geneva will be held this afternoon at three o’clock by County Treasurer George Kinzle. The bonds amount to little more than SSOO. The average assessment of Adams county automobiles is $214 instead of $204 as stated erroneously. In the estate of Margaret Myer, Edward X. Ehinger. administrator, reported as to personal estate. He also filed petition for sale of real estate. Summons was ordered return- . able June 9. Judge D. E. Smith and a jury nre 5 hearing the case of Henry H. Foreman I vs. Korenhappuch Johnson, suit on aci count, demand S2O. 5 The case of The Decatur Lumber r Company vs. Cyrus J. Weaver, was lisR missed and costs paid. Pearl McGill Koon vs. The Decatur Egg Case company: demurrer filed by defendant to second amended com--0 plaint. 6 f Tlie Warren Refining & Chemical Company vs. Julius Hauglt. Demurrer overruled; exceptions. n Real estate transfers: Christena B. g Vail et al to Hugh Thomas Vail, quit j. claim deed to lots 558. 560. 561, 569, 3 570, part of lot 559, 715, 152, 153, 116, n $J5,000; Hugh T. Vail to John W. Vail t same, quit claim deed, $15,000; Hattie Gilpin administratrix of Addle F. An(drews, realty in Washington township

i $5,600; L. I. Hutchins et al to Roy L. I Butcher, lot 160, Geneva,, $41)0; quit, claim deed; Jos. w. Syphers et al io Emil Badertscher, lots 151-152, Berne S9OO. i —- + The Foreman-Johnson case will probably go to the jury late this afternoon. BUMPED INTO BIG HOG. Live stock running out upon the highways lias been one of the problems which lias caused Jim A. Hendricks and his assistants a lot of trouble. Only a few days ago a notice concerning same was run in this paper. Tliis morning the nuisance was brought home in a forceful way, when Arthur Krugh, engineer of the big steam road roller, was on his way to this city to get the roller. He was riding a motorcycle from his home in Monroe and when in front of the old Fritz Koenig farm ran into a hog which was grunting along the center of the highway. Art was thrown about fifteen feet, sprained liis wrist and knee, cut one leg bad ly, broke his molorcycle, smashed ills dinner bucket and spilled his dinner. Just what will be done about the matter is not known. INTHE MEMORY Os the Nation’s Dead Will Appropriate Services be Held Tomorrow. GRAVES DECORATED In the Morning—ln After- . noon Rev. J. A. Seimetz Will Deliver Address. Business will practically be at a standstill tomorrow when Decatur, with the entire nation will honor the memory of deceased soldiers. The motning will be given over to the decoration of the graves by a committee of G. A. R. The trip will be made by automobile, citizens having given these for the occasion. At twelve o’clock the bells of the churches of the city will be tolled for five minutes, during which period all people will stand with solemnly bowed head, in reverence to the memory of the dead. Music for the day will be furnished by the Decatur band and the Young People’s Branch. The afternoon services will begin at one o’clock. The memorial address which will be delivered in the court room will be given by Rev. J. A. Seimetz, pastor of the St. Mary’s Catholic church. The committee announces the following program for the afternoon’s services: The comrades and ladies of the Relief Corp will convene at post hall at 1 o'clock, march to cenotaph where ritualistic services by the members of the post and ladies of the Relief Corps will be observed, re-form and march to the court room, where the following program will be rendered: Adjutant read orders from national headquarters. Music —Y. P. B. Ritualistic services by the officers of the post. Music by the Choir. Memorial Address—Rev. J. A. Seimetz. Music by the Choir. The post, ladies of the Relief Corps, school children, ex-soldiers and citizens will form on Madison street, right resting on Fourth, south on Fourth to Adams, east on Adams to Second, north on Second to Monroe, east on Monroe across river bridge, counter march to bridge, services there by the ladies of the Relief Corps in memory of the soldiers and sailors who are buried in watery graves, re-form and march west on Monroe to Fourth street, south on Fourth to Madison, east on Madison to court house and disband. o - BIRTH OF A BOY. Mr. and Mrs. Aaron DeVinney received a telephone message yesterday from Mr. and Mrs. Pliny Wible of Bluffton, announcing the birth of a fine boy baby, born to them yesterday morning. This is the second child and boy in the Wible family. Mrs. Wible was formerly Miss Beatrice Coffelt. Mother and babe are doing well Mrs. DeVinney was at Fort Wayne visiting her niece at the time and went from there to Fort Wayne. MEAT MARKETS TO CLOSE. 1 All meat markets in the city will ' close at 12 o’clock, noon, on Decora- • tion day, and remain closed for the >' rest of the day.

THE CLASS ROLL r> 0i • i Seven Boys and Six Girls to be Graduated from St. Joseph School ’ ON JUNE THIRTEENTH Commencement Exercises at Opera House—Commercial Graduates. i i ■ The annual commencement exeri rises of the St. Joseph Catholic school will be held on June 13 at the Bosse opera house, on which evening a , class of thirteen —seven boys and six young ladies —will receive diplomas for the successful completion of the eight grades. School will probably close the Friday before, which will be June 9. The graduates who will receive the eighth grade diplomas are:: Frederic Heimann, Ambrose Kohne, Simeon Schmitt, John Holthouse, Elmo Ehinger, Richard Deinfnger, Charles Keller, Beatrice Keller, Rose Neswalt, Hilda Bosse. Marie Murtaugh. Mildred Niblick, Cecelia Miller. This is the first year that the commercial course was taught in the St. Joseph school. The course requires a two year’s study to entitle the students to a diploma, but at the end of the first year a certificate will be given to the pupils who take the course. Those who will receive certificates for the first-year course are: Charles Holthouse. Richard Ehinger. Richard Tonnelier, Adrian Wemhoff. Alfred Mougey, Mary Laurent, Rose Coffee. Anna Smith, Virginia Smith Naomi Gass. ■ o MOOSE SPECIAL MEETING. All Loyal Moose are requested to bo 1 present at the meeting Wednesday, | May 31, to make final arrangements for attending the Fort Wayne centennial in a body, on Tuesday, June 6. atwfuneral Decatur Relatives Attend Funeral of Ardellis Gephart—Met A SUDDEN DEATH Saturday—Was Accidentally Struck on Head in Factory—Relatives Here. John Everett and Mr. and Mrs. Cal Peterson motored to Lima, Ohio, this morning to join Mrs. Everett in attending tlie funeral of Mrs. Everett’s nephew, Ardellis Gephart, who met death in an accident last Saturday, when he was struck on the head by a part of a piece of machinery, while working in a factory there. He had been living at Lima, but a short time, going there from Ohio City, where he resided. The deceased was about thirtyeight years of age. He was the son of Chris Gephart and Mrs. Everett's sister, Mrs. Emma Sweitzer, of Lima, Philip Gephat-t of near Pleasant Mills and John Gephart, residing just across the state line, are uncles. He is survived by a wife and five daughters. Mrs. Everett went to Lima, Ohio, Saturday, on receipt of word of the death. SPECIAL TOMORROW. ' The special Memorial day show at »he Rex theater tomorrow is a Mutual masterpiece, “A Yankee from the <West.” it was written by the great American author, Opie Reid. Tlie play is full of exciting events. Tlie smashing climax is a man-to-man fight between the “Yankee”—splendidly played by Wallace Reid—and a crook —with a man’s redemption the stake, and a woman’s hour the prize. ‘‘The Genius of Signe Auen” makes the simple part of the Norwegian peas- ' 'ant a pronounced success. A strong cast of screen favorites rounds out Chis great American play of self-sac--1 (fificing and daring. 5 TAKES NEW POSITION. ( harles Sowle has resigned his po 1 sitlon as pattern maker for the Fori k- Wayne Electric company and has tak o en a position with the Holland-St I oil’s Sugar company of this city.

SMALL FIRE SUNDAY, ■ A fire alarm Sunday evening nt 7 o’clock called the department for tlie first time in several weeks. The fire ' was at tho West End meat market, where a short circuit in tho light wiring started some paper decorations to burning. The fire burned itself out by the time the apparatus arrived, and but insignificant damage was I < one. ■ o — FRED BENTZ IMPROVED I Fred Bentz, cashier of the People's State bank at Berne, wwo was struck by an automobile a week ago, is so far improved that he Is now able to bo up and to sit on the porch Dr. D. D. Clark, his attending physician, says that Thursday he may come to Decatur. o J. J. HILUS DEAD Empire Builder Dies Suddenly at St. Paul Home This Morning. TWO OPERATIONS Latter Part of Last Week Bring on Fatal Crisis — Special Trains. (United Press Service? BULLETIN. St. Paul, Minn.. May 29,—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Janies J. Hill, railroad magnate, died at his home here at 9:43 this morning following an operation for infection of his thigh. Rushed here by a special train Mrs. Samuel Hill. Washington D. C. rush- ; ed in the death chamber, just in time, to grasp the hand of her dying father. I Hill became unconscious two hours 1 before he died. I Mrs. A. M. Beard, of New York, is the only child who did not get here before the end came. Her special train was reported between Saint Paul and LaCrosse Wisconsin when Hill died. Hill’s serious condition followed an operation upon his thigh to relieve] serious inflamation caused by a carbuncle. The first operation was performed Friday. Efforts to keep the first operation secret were successful until today when it liecame known that a much more serious operation than reported had been performed on Saturday. Despite his wonderful vitality tlie two operations became serious. His advanced age was againsf him. Special trains were rushed to St. Paul to-, day. One heavy train was run in record breaking time from Chicago to carry two ounces of a peculiar seda tive which Hill's specialist suggested. CfirEFJOIFCE Undertaker Transporting Body to Ohio Puts Up at Garage THEN GOES TO BED Without Saying Anything —Night Men Discover Body in Hearse. L_ Quietly running into the city late last night, hauling a corpse to Ansonia Ohio, for burial, a Fort Wayne undertaker managed to give the night men at tlie Holthouse garage a healthy scare. The trip was being made in an automobile hearse, and the body was being hauled on a cot. Becoming tired when ! they readied this city tlie undertaker ! and driver entered the garage and put up their car, going to tlie Madison hotel to sleep. One of the night men, wanting to see the interior of an auto ’ hearse, opened the door and hustled „ right out again. !_ The police were notified and Dr. H. K F. Costello, city health officer was alt so called and made an examination ol the body The undertaker had a burial and transportation permit issued by Dr. McArdle, coroner of Allen county and Dr. J. H. Gilpen of the board s . of health. The body wa sthat of C. pt N. Nagle, of Fort Wayne, age about k- thirty years, who died of organic heart t. disease Saturday. The party was allowed to proceed.

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TD THE SOLDIERS > . - . And Their Brave Co-Work-ers Was Excellent Sermon Given by REV. F. H. HARMAN Annual Memorial Sermon Delived Sunday — A Fine Sermon. The memorial service at the United Brethren church yesterday morning was well attended. The G. A. R. and the Woman's Relief Corps attended in a body, marching into the church at tlie close of the Sunday school, led by the American flag. The songs were appropriate to the occasion. Rev. Harman gave expression of greetings to the members of the G. A. R. and the Woman’s Relief Corps and expressed his pleasure in being able to have them thus gathered in his church, and x>f his pleasure at the opportunity of addressing them on this occasion He expressed his appreciation of the great work done by the “Boys in Blue,” for his father was a veteran, and lost his life in the army. Rev. Harman took the line of thought expressed in the following scripture as a basis of remarks upon this occasion: Romans 13:7, “Render therefore to all dues: tribute to whom tribute is due. custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.” Matt. 22:21: “Then saith he unto them. Render therefore unto Caesar the things which arc Caesar's and unto God the things that are God’s.” His sermon was an excellent one, embodying many points of interest and inspiration. Among other things, in referring to the ones to whom honr is due, he held that we give honor to the great generals of the civil war. and justly, too, but more honor iq due to the private soldier. “For where would Grant’s honor be today had not the brave boys stood back of I itn like a stone wall, with their I lives in their hands?” he said. “Where would the victory of the battle of Vicksburg, at Richmond, and others be if the private had refused to face the storm of shot and shell and retreated to the background. The idolized name of our great general would have passed out into oblivion, j Where would have been the glory of Sherman's march to the sea if the hoys had not braved the dangers and .discomforts of that march? We [ would not be singing so patriotically ■Marching Througli Georgia.’ There would have been no such march. ] Sherman’s name would not be a monument to his memory today.” He spoke of how, in passing through Galena, 111., he ran up to Grant’s home, and of how while viewing that home, only an ordinary brick house, how it came to him that all the honT that is attached to this home is the price of the blood of the brave American boys whose hlood was spilled on the battlefields of our country. He said: “Even our great hero of the emancipation proclamation, Lincoln. would be no more than any other man having passed on to the last abiding home, had it not been for the courage and bravery of the boys who made tliis proclamation possible, and thus made the name of Abraham Lincoln immortal. Lincoln never wrote the emancipation proclamation, but it was the valor of the private soldier that wrote it with his own blood.” Here he told of a visit to the home of Lincoln, and to his tomb at Springfield. 111., and of how he sat down in the very chair that Lincoln sat in, and of how he took the very pen in hand that Lincoln wrote the emancipation with and write his name. How this pen was dipped in the blood of the 'braves of this nation, when the proclamation was written. Told of Ihow he sat on the very sofa where the beloved president courted his , wife. The home is held by the government of the I’nited States, and is kept, as near as possible in the same I state as when occupied by its owner. Here he presented a small piece of bark taken from an ordinary tree in front of the Lincoln home. Lincoln ’ was setting these trees out at tho f time when a committee came and told him that he had been elected 1 president of the United States. He spoke of how the ranks of the 1 Grand Army of the Republic are thin- . ning down. That Decatur has a largt er representation yet living than t many Grand Army posts. He said: . “The ranks are thinning. In only a (Continued on Page 2.)