Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 144, Decatur, Adams County, 17 June 1916 — Page 1

Volume XIV. Number 144.

MEXICANS MASSING TROOPS ON BORDER

JUAREZ GARRISON RECEIVES REINFORCEMENTS DURING NIGHT-BELL AT FORTBLISSINREADINESS FOR ANY EVENTUALITY-SITUATION TENSE.

(United Press Service) | El Paso, Texas, June 17 —(Special * to Daily Democrat—Three thousand .'troops in’the Juarez garrison were reinforced today by several hundred fresh soldiers who arrived during tae night and encamped twelve miles east of Juarez. With the Juarez civilian army and General Bell at Fort Bliss holding every man in his command ready for any- emergency the situation this afternoon was admittedly serious. American communication lines in Mexico were tightened today, although General Bell declared the report he had received of a threatened attack on American troops by General Trevino had come only from mining men and were not official. Official knowledge of any Carranza threats was denied by General Bell. The commandant said, however, that he had advised both Generals Funston and Pershing of the report that Trevino had telegraphed an ultimatum to Pershing. A general air of alertness was evident along the American lines of communication) Precautions were taken to avoid attack from Namiquipa to Columbus, a distance of 280 miles. Trenches were manned and machine guns mounted. No additional troops, however, were being sent across the border, Bell declared. The state department is considering a suggestion that the remainder of the American consuls in small towns of interior Mexico be brought out. Most of them came out several weeks ago for a border conference and have not yet returned. The most disturbing factor in the days events, according to officials, was the arrival of consul Hanna stationed at Monterey at Laredo, Texas this morning. The state department some time ago telegraphed all American consuls in interior Mexican cities they were at liberty to return “at their discretion.” No reason for Hanna’s action is known here. BULLETIN Columbus. New Mexico, June 17— (Special to Daily Democrat)—The border was aroused by wild rumors today, but authorities here at nine o’clack said they had no confirmation of the report tha‘ Carranza had threat-, ened hostilities if the American troops ( in Mexico moved in any direction'excepting back toward the border. Washington, June 17 —(Special to Daily Democrat)— Mexico will attack American troops if any more of the latter cross the border or “if there is any attempt to move any troops,” according to a message received by the war department today from General Bell. “General Bell telephoned that General Trevino had telegraphed General Pershing that if any more troops cross the border they will be attacked or if they attempt to move any more troops these will be attacked” said the telegram. Acting secretary of war Scott in announcing the message emphasized that the word had not come from Pershing himself. It was taken, however, as officially confirming of Trevino's previously reported action inasmuch as Bell made his statement flatly and did not qualify it with any suggestion that the Trevino message was merely rumored. Another message today said Major Gray had returned to Sam Ignacio after having crossed into Mexico yesterday. The message explained that the crossing was because of reports of more bandits activity, but added that the Mexican authorities had offered to co-operate. Laredo, Texas, June 17 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Carranza troops in Nuevo Laredo are reported to have received instructions to resist any attempt by American forces to cross

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into Mexico regardless of circumstances. The majority of the bandits who escaped to the Mexican side after the raid on Sam Ignacio are said to be concentrating near Nuevo Laredo. San Antonio, Tevas, June 17— (Special to Daily Democrat) —Armyheadquarters today awaited anxiously for official information of Carranza General Trevino’s reputed threat to begin hostilities against American troops in Mexico. General Funston today received a message from General Bell stating that Trevino is understood to have warned General Pershing that any attempt to send additional troops into Mexico would be considered sufficient provocation for an attack by Trevino’s troops. Funston, early today had no official information from Pershing. No comment was forthcoming from Funston concerning Major Gray’s report that he crossed the Rio Grande late yesterday in search of bandits who raided Sam Ignacio Thursday. Gray said he was in Mexican territory two hours but found no trace of the bandits. The crossing was made between Sam Ignacio and Zapata. A company of engineers has arrived at Fort Sam Houston from Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.

London, June 17 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The torpedo boat destroyer Eden sank in the English channel last night Immediately following a collision, the admiralty announced today. It was announced that thirty one of the Eden’s crew had been saved. She carried a crew of seventy officers and men. Vienna, June 17 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—New combats have started along the entire Volhyian front according to todays reports from the Austro-Hungarian headquarters. Several attempts of the Russians to cross the river Styr failed, the Russians suffering heavily. ""HELP! HELP!! HELP 11! My friend, help the editor in his wildreyed search for news. When your friends come to see you; if you are not ashamed of it, tell him; when your wife wives a tea party; if you have recovered from the effects of the gossip, drop in with the news, when a baby arrives, fill your pockets with cigars and call; if you go to a party, steal some of the good things and leave them with the item in our sanctum. If your wife licks you come in and let us see your scars and receive tender sympathy through the paper; if your mother-in-law has died, don’t be bashful about it, give in all the common-place news. In short whatever makes you feel proud, and lonesome, or glad, submit it to our 24,karat wisdom and see our matted locks part and stand on end with gratitude, which will pour from every pore like moisture from the dew besprinkled earth. —Editor Monroe Reporter. WAS OPERATED UPON. Helen, aged four, daughter of Mr. and ' Mrs. Charles Voglewede, who was taken to the St. Joseph hospital yesterday, was operated upon at one o’clock this afternoon. She had been ill two weeks of typhoid fever. An X-ray examination conducted by Dr. Rosenthal yesterday, found trouble of the bowels and appendix and the operation today was for that. She was coming out from the anaesthetic at 2:30 when word was received here. — ——■■ o— — WILL PREACH TOMORROW ’ A. Liechty, oldest son of Director Liechty of Concordia college at Fort Wayne, now filling a charge in Oregon, and who is home on a visit, will preach the regular services tomorrow morning at the Binkey Lutheran church in Union township. The services will commence at nine-thirty o’clock sun time.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, June 17, 1916.

IN DIRECT LINE Mrs. John McGill, of This City, is Descendant from Two Presidents. FROM JOHN ADAMS And John Quincy Adams — Lady is Given Surprise for Birthday. Decatur has a distinguished personage of the United States in Mrs. John McGill descendent of two presidents of the United States. She with her husband resides on Monroe street, in the first house west of the Christian church. Mrs. McGill's mother’s grandmother was Amy Adams, a daughter of John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States and granddaughter of John Adams, second president of the United States. This makes Mrs. McGill a great, great granddaughter of John Quincy Adams, or a great great great granddaughter of John Adams, second president. She certainly is eligible to membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution. Tracing the family back, Mrs. McGill’s mother was Sarah Whitmarsh, who was a daughter of Rhoda Drum, who in turn was a daughter of Amy Adams, daughter of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president; and he was the son of John Adams, the second president. A bed in which John Quincy Adams slept, was in her family for many years and quite recently was given by her to her son, Albert McGill who resides at Sturgis, Mich. Mrs. McGill will be seventy-three years old tomorrow, but the occasion was celebrated yesterday when her children and sisters and their family gave her a surprise at her home here. There was a big dinner at noon, and many pretty and useful gifts were given Mrs. McGill. Those present were the families of Abe Schnepp. Richard Harker, Grant McGill, Sher man Taylor, Carl Gaskill. Blanch Shilts, Albert McGill and Miss Kittie Zerkel, residing in this vicinity, points in Ohio and Michigan. SPECIAL__ CARS Government to Have Special Egg Car at Bluffton on June 29. PURDUE UNIVERSITY . '—-4 Will Have Two Cars on Poultry Breeding, Culture and Equipment. In conjunction with the special government egg candling and chilling demonstration car, which will be open for demonstrations and exhibition at Bluffton Thursday, June 29, Purdue unuiversity will send two cars, covering poultry, its breeding, management, care, treatment of diseases, equipment of poultry farms and other scientific information on chicken raising. The government car will be under the direction of H. A. McAleer and three poultry and egg specialists, who will show local shippers of eggs and poultry the newest systems of testing, candling, grading, packing and chilling eggs for travel to distant markets. Each visitor to the car will be given an opportunity to candle eggs, and the specialist will check up whether the visitor has readly differentiated fresh eggs from “rots,” “spots,” and “white rots, and has properly graded the eggs by condition of shell. A little model of a refrigerator car will be loaded with egg cases to help shippers and railroad men to prevent damage in transit. Eggs should be chilled before shipping. If they are not they may rot in transit. The food and drugs act prohibits the interstate shipment of cases containing substantial percentages of bad eggs, which are held to be adulterated food. A model of a small, inexpensive ice pre-cooling plant will be shown by the specialists, and its construction and use ex-

plained. It will chill dressed poultry as well as eggs. The methods to be demonstrated are those which after long practical tests by the department have been proved to be effective in preventing deterioration of poultry products and in bringing them to distant markets in prime condition. Al linterested In shipping poultry and eggs, or preparing them for market, are invited to visit the car and attend the demonstrations which are free. The car Is well worth a visit, as it contains the essentials of a thoroughly modern poultry refrigerating plant. The widest possible publicity is desired, and farmers of Adams county who are interested in either of the subjects demonstrated with these cars are urged to form a party from his immediate neighborhood and attend. County Agent A. J. Hutchins will probably attend with a party from Decatur. o IS GRANDPA AGAIN A telegram received by James Hurst yesterday gave the glad news that he is again a grandfather. Marguerite Ursula, a daughter, was born to Mr. and Mrs. A. Kattereinrich of South Bend, Indiana at nine-thirty o’clock Thursday night. The new granddaughter weighed eight pounds and its mother is doing nicely. WERERERECfED Decatur Ladies Re-elected to Office of District Missionary Society. SESSION NEXT YEAR Will be Held at Simpson M. E. Church —Delegates Have Returned. The 1917 convention of the Woman’s Home Missionary society. Fort Wayne district, will be held at Simpson M. E. church, Fort Wayne. The election of officers was a feature of the closing of the convention at Bluff ton yesterday. They are: President — Mrs. W. T. Arnold. Bluffton. Vice President —Mrs. F. F. Thornburg, Decatur. Corresponding Secretary — Mrs. F V. Mills, Decatur. Recording Secretary — Mrs. C. A Stine, Poneto. Treasurer — Mrs. J. A. Engstrom, Garrett. Those from Decatur who attended the convention and have returned are: Mrs. F. V. Mills, Mrs. F. F. Thornburg, Mrs. Emma Daniel, Mrs. P. B. Thomas, Mrs. John Rex, Mrs. O. L. Vance, Misses Ruth Parrish, Florence Myers, Gladys Flanders, Ger trude Kienzle, Ramona Smith and Josephine Myers. Mrs. P. B. Thomas gave the re sponse to the address of welcome; Mrs. Daniel gave a talk and the Queen Esther Circle girls, with those of Bluffton, gave a sketch, "The Girl Who Had no Time.”

A WESJERN TRIP Will be Taken by Mrs. Fred Linn and Her Two Sisters—To Visit WITH A BROTHER At Clyde Park, Mont.— To See Yellowstone Park and Other Places. • Mrs. Fred Linn and her sisters, Mrs. E. B. Kern, of Van Buren, and Mrs. A. S. Elzey, of Ossian, will leave the first of the week on a trip of six weeks or three months, through the west. They will go first to Chicago where they will visit with relatives and from there to Clyde Park, Montana, where they will be the guests of their brother, Charless Linn, and family. Enroute to the west they will also stop at St. Paul, Minn. They expect to take a trip through Yellowstone National Park, and go thence to Salt Lake City. Denver, Colorado, will also come in for a share of their time. At Whiting. Kan., they will visit with an uncle, W. S. Lower. The I trip will be a delightful one.

A LARGE_CROWD Community Supper Outgrows First Location Sought and Will BE AT SUGAR FACTORY Music, Men’s Chorus and Several Solos on Program—Big Feast. With the acceptances of the invitations for the big community supper to be held here Thursday evening, June 22, more than outnumbering the expectations of the committee, it has become necessary to find a larger room in which to hold the supper than the Durkins garage, which first entered the plans. The supper will be held in the wareroom of the Holland-St. Louis Sugar factory, and a force of workmen are now preparing the room for the big get-together feast of Adams county business men and farmers. Tickets may yet be secured, if you do not already have them, of any member of the committee. The ticket sale will end Monday night. More than ‘wo hundred replies to the letters sent out have already been received and it •« believed that many oral answers will be delivered to the committee during the course of the day. The committee, has been so imbued with enthusiasm over the affair that a regular feast is being prepared fur this supper. The Men's Chorus has been secured to sing for the evening and they are practicing many new selections. Several solos and music has also been provided. If you havn’t got a ticket — get one— because you’ll wish you had it. MR. RHOTEN VISITS HERE. Mr. and Mrs. Festus Rhoten, Howard Bennett and Mrs. Cliff Larimer and daughter of Bluffton motored here yesterday on business with William Page, manager of the local Morris store. Mr. Rhoten is the general manager. This is his first business trip here since February, as he has been quite ill, but is improving. A FINE MEETING Dr. J. S. Boyers Returns from Convention of Medical Association AT DETROIT, MICHIGAN Pleasant and Profitable Gathering—Detroit Has a Great Boom. Dr. J. S. Boyers has returned from Detroit, Mich., where he attended the convention of the American Medical Association, which has been in session there this week. There were 4500 physicians at the convention and every state in the union was represented. The meeting was an unusually pleasant and profitable one. Not only were there educators of national fame on the program to make it profitable, but the pleasant location of the city, made the meeting a pleasurable one: Detroit is enjoying a great boom at present. An average of fifty-eight houses a day were erected during the year of 1915, and there are now 1500 families who have their goods stored because there are no houses for them to occupy. — o IS GETTING ALONG WELL. D. B. Erwin called on Cornelius Rademacker in Fort Wayne last evening and found him getting along, well. He is able to eat with the others at the dining room table; is able to sit on the porch and to go riding, and expects to be able to come down to Decatur next week. He is doing nicely and will recover rapidly. CARD OF THANKS. We wish in this manner to thank the many kind friends and neighbors who assisted us in our time of great sorrow —the death of our mother— Mrs. Catherine Closs. JACOB CLOSS. MARY CLOSS.

COUNNTY DIPLOMAS ARE DISTRIBUTED TODAY TWU HUNDRED FIVE YOUNG PEOPLE GRADUATED FROM THE COMMON SCHOOLS OFCOUNTY-COMMENCE-MENT HELD AT BERNE TODAY.

Fully eleven hundred people thronged the old Mennonite church at Berne this morning at ten o'clock when the tenth annual commencement of the common schools of Adams county was held, a class of two hundred five young boys and girls receiving diplomas for having completed the common school course of Indiana. The Mangold-Williams orchestra from this city played for a quarter of an hour while the crowd was assembling and until the long line of graduates, lead by the Berne band, had marched in and were seated on the platform, by County School Superintendent E. S. Christen and his son, Ellis Christen, who were in charge. .The graduates were in township bodies, and ahead of each township class, marched the trustee, who also took places on the platform with the speakers, county school superintendent and other members of the county board of education. The gallery was outlined with bunting and national colors were the decorations. The opening number. "The National Cadets,” by Brown, played by the orchestra was very appropriate. Rev. J. O. Mosier gave the invocation and Miss Kathryn Egly sang a beautiful solo, “Little Pink Rose.” Isenman's “The Eagle’s Nest” by the orchestra preceded a vocal duet by Miss Egly and Mrs. Carl T. Habeggar, whose voices blended wonderfully well. Prof. E. S. Christen then introduced the speaker of the day. Rev. Harry Grannison Hill, Indianapolis as the best speaker of the day. His address, "Preparing for Citizenship in a Democracy,” was a masterpiece. "You may have your centennials, youi fairs, exhibits, picnics, reunions—but there is nothing compared to this,’ he said, sweeping the large body of young graduates with his comprehen sive eye. “The finest exhibit in th. country is not its cows, its pigs am! such, but its boys and girls. It if an exhibit of all that is yet to be.” In other countries, he said in sub si nee, they are prepared and drilled for the iorny and cruelty of war But here we are preparing them t< be good citizens in a kind of country in which we wish to live.

In a democracy each man has a responsibility to make our citizens the best in the world. Some may hav> dropped by the wayside, the chose: of all that were called to the work Do not think of yourself more highl; than you ought. You have but startei on the highway to citizenship. Education is not poured into th' child, as we often think. Very oft en we think we send the children t school empty and expect the teacher to fill them up. We are not pourinf in facts but preparing them for tin big out yonder on life’s plane. China as a nation is standing stil —they glorify the past. They do things in the old way. We are doing thing! in the new way—moving, learning understanding. We should not re member old things, but think new things. We could not farm the waj our fathers did. We would starve. If I were county superintendent, I wouldn’t ask you a question about what you had studied. 1 don't care how much you remember. I would find out how well you were educated. I’d want to know how much you think. He’s the one who is educated. There are many educated fools in the country. They are educated with our systems but don’t know what to do. You are going to have problems no one can anticipate. You must have your mind sharpened on the whetstone of hard knocks. Too many parents say they want to give children an education so they won’t have to work like they have had to. Never has a good intention gone so wrong. We want them to work more and better than the parents have. There is no one so despicable as the man who sits around and lets others work. We want them to do their work and never shirk. We have but started to work in Indiana. I have been from the knobs

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by the old Ohio to the sand dunes of Lake Michigan. 1 have traveled and I have gloried in the fertile field and happy hamlets —but we have done but little —just started. More may come. Be prepared. Get ready to live up to the citizenship in democracy. Go on throug the high school. Your educteion cannot become too much. You have more problems than your fathers. You will need more to carry you to that better, bigger life of citizenship, the democracy of this great county, state and nation, where justice, freedom and citizenship and brotherly love reign supreme. Following his excellent address. Professor Christen presented the diplomas. More music by the orchestra, which played "The Moscow,” and "The Stars and Stripes Forever” and the benediction by the Rev. P. R. Schroeder closed the exercises, which were, perhaps, the best the county yet has known. The trustees present were: Adam Bienz, Union; Phil L. Schieferstein, Root; John Miller, Preble; George M. T. Houck. Kirkland; Ed L. Aughenbaugh, Washington; Edwin W. France, St. Mary’s; Charles J. Jones, Blue Creek; John Eicher, Monroe; Joseph L. Graber, French; Peter Fox, Hartford; A. Harlow, Wabash; J. L. Yaney, Jefferson; O. L. Vance, Decatur; J. F. Lehman, Berne; S. W. Hale, Geneva. The following are the graduates: County Graduates. Union Township—Victoria Ulman, Louie Worden, Martha Koldewey, Marie Brodbeck. Charley Schnepp. Root-Mary Lewton, Curtis Baxter, Calvin Baxter, Pauline Wolford, Rose Geels, Florence B. Rice, Emanuel Steigmeyer, Esther Fuhrman. Preble—-Milton Werling, Emanuel Engleman, Ruth Hohnhaus, Wilbert Scheumann, William Mailand, Martin F. Gallmeyer, Arthur Doehrman, Arthur Schroeder, Elmer M. Koenemann. Kirkland —Elsie Arnold, Emma Det. tinger, Leona Henschen, Frances Leyse, William Bryan, Joseph Howard, Truman Goldner, Margaret Baker, Kenneth Miller, Arden Arnold, Paul Ray, Frank Shoaf, Edna Ehrman, Fred Andrews, Washington — Emery Hawkins, Lora Garner, Mabel Martin, Eddis Johnson, Ada Reppert, Oswald Nyfeler, Rosa Landis. Alice Landis, Hernan Kirkendall. Mae Johnson, Lula McKean, Thelma Burkhead, Florence Smith, Virgil Andrews. St. Mary’s—Vohn Beam. Ralph Dazison. Theodore Dague, Mabel Davis, Vaomi Warner, Charles Jones, Hazel Sutler, Gordon Vizard, Neva Acker, klbion Manlier, Jesse Roebuck, Noilla Hilton, Walter Hindenlang. Xarffa Brodbeck, Ulva Ray, Forest Durr. Bessie Durbin, Edith Johnson, Chester Walters, Gladys, Welker, Mildred Davison. Blue Greek —Wildus Vance, Paul Ralston, Hattie Myers. Charles Agler, Orval Jones, Marie Danner, Nora Feasel, Arlie Dudgeon, True Foreman, Marcus Parr, Johnnie Sipe, Archie Parr. Monroe —Walter Lehman, Eli Lehman, Albert Lehman, Estella Moser, Edwin Moser, Naomi Liechty, Cora Habegger, Benhart Nussbaum, Wesley Lehman, Herman Von Gunten, Franklin Liechty, Ellis Lehman, Arley Sprunger, Menno Eicher, Carl Schug, Simeon Sprunger, Ida Roth, Harry Ehrsam, Christian Stauffer, Lavina Christener, Edna Hedlngton, James Loudon, Chalmer Gilbert, Mae Martz, Hazel E. Gilbert. Donald Essex, Chester N. Watkins, Florence Andrews. Fae Halberstadt, Carl William Martz, Gerald Hendricks, Leo Miller. French—John Baumgartner, Frances Kipfer, William Levy, Frances Gerber, Frances Moser, Ida Graber. Hartford —Mary Watson, Robert Myers, Alton Burry, Willie Meyers, Valentine Egly, Preston Zehr, Charles Stuckey, Bessie Reynolds, Russel (Continued on Page 3.)