Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 145, Decatur, Adams County, 19 June 1916 — Page 1

Volume XIV. Number 145.

FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE IS READY

NEW WARNINGS GIVEN AMERICANS TO FLEE SERRANO. OBREGON'S WAR GENERAL ARRIVES AT JUAREZ TO TAKE COMMAND OF ARMY--FUNSTON SAYING NOTHING GOT READY.

BULLETIN Jaurez. Mex., June 19—(Special to Daily Democrat) —General Francisco Serrano, War Minister Obregon's chief of staff, arrived here today on a secret mission. It is reported Serrano will take command of all Carranzista troops in northern Mexico in the event of war with the United States. Serrano refused to discuss his visit. BULLETIN. San Antonio, Tex., June 19—(Special to Daily Democrat) —General Funston stated this afternoon that the national guards will be mobilized in their respective states and that their membership will be sent to the border only when he calls for the various states' detachments. He added that it will be possibly some time before any of these troops reach the border. BULLETIN Washington, June 19 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The American reply to Carranza’s last note on withdrawal of the United States forces will be enroute to the defacto government before night. BULLETIN. Washington, June 19—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The Mexican government, through Ambassador Arre.idcndo, today requested the United States government to instruct commanders of naval vessels in Mexican waters not to attempt to disembark during this time of excitement even if unarmed in order to prevent complications. Fort Wayne, June 19 —(Special to • Daily Democrat) —Company E of this city plans to leave for Indianapolis tomorrow, it was stated today. BULLETIN. Brownsville, Texas, June 19 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—All women and children, prisoners in the city jail and patients in the hospitals are being sent into the interior from Mattamoras. Mexico, opposite here.

government buying heavily Chicago, June 19—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Until they get to federal mobilization points at the border the various state militia organizations must provision themselves with government funds it was stated today at the office of the central department of the United States Army. After the border mobilization begins, provisioning will be under the su]>ervislon of the quartermaster’s department at San Antonio. Preparations are under way it is understood to buy large quantities of provisions in the middle west. Wholesale meat prices were boosted at the stockyards markets here here today in anticipation of a heavy run of government buying. hay to act"quickly Washington, June 19 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Chairman Hay of the house military affairs committee announced that he would ask unanimous consent this afternoon for the passage of the war departments resolution advancing enactment of the section of the new army bill permitting use of the militia on foreign soil. If unanimous consent is not granted by the house, Hay will obtain through his party’s majority a special rule to put the matter through with ail speed. Admitting the gravity of the situation Secretary of State Lansing today paid.

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"There is more excitement and irritation in Mexico than heretofore.” The statement was the more significant in view of Lansing’s persistant refusal for weeks past to make any comment except to mention "co-operation" with the defacto government. Announcement that the note would go today was made after the Mexican embassy had delivered a secret note to I V.nsing, presumably a request that this government’s reply be hastened. Consul John R. Silliman is enroute for the border leaving the interior Mexico without 'any full Ajnerican consuls in charge. Meantime new warnings to Americans to leave the troubled country have gone forwarfl. Mobilization of militia proceeded throughout the country today. No orders dispatching any of those forces to the border had been announced up to an early hour this afternoon and many of the men may never see border duty. Making them available, however, is a precaution against trouble—calling Carranza's bluff, perhaps averting a war. In clear, unmistakable language the note declines to withdraw the American forces and answers Carranza’s mis-statements of facts and points to many incidents which make it Imperative that the Pershing expedition remain. The message is ten thousand words or more long. Indianapolis, June 19—(Special to Daily Democrat) —First steps were taken to make the Indiana national guard ready for service on the Mexican border. Adjutant General Frank L. Bridges telegraphed the following order to all companies in the Indiana guard: “Mobilize at once, home station. Recruit to war strength. Report to regimental commander when you have the minimum peace strength required, ready to move.” At General Bridges headquarters ->t was said as soon as companies have been recruited to minimum peace strength they will be ordered to Fort Benamin Harrison here.

Washington, June 19 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —National guard units ordered mobilized by the secretary of war Baker include from Indiana two regiments and two separate bat taiions and three separate companies of infantry, one battalion of field artillery. one company of signal corps, one field hospital and one ambulance company. Seymour, Ind., June 19—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Captain Oscar B. Abel, of the Seymour company of the Indiana national guard, today said his company would be ready to leave for Fort Benjamin Harrison tomorrow morning. Washington, June 19 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Secretary of War Baker took steps today to make the national guards available for immediate duty in Mexico. The secretary, through General Crowder, sent a copy of a special resolution to Chairman Hay of the house military affairs committee, which, if acted upon favorably by congress would make effective at once that section of the new army law which is the war department’s authorization to order the militia into foreign territory. Neither Scott nor Crowder would discuss the statement. Other members of the staff insisted it was merely a “precautionary plan.” They said the situation admittedly teemed with the wildest possibilities and that every effort would be made to be completelly prepared on any eventualities.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday Evening, .June 19, 1916.

AT MONROEVILLE Will Funeral of Mrs. Catherine Cline be Held on Tuesday Afternoon. WELL KNOWN LADY Dies at Home of Her Daughter. Mrs. S. C. David, of Seventh Street. S. C. David went to Monroeville this morning to make arrangements for the funeral of his mofher-in-law, Mrs. Catherine Cline, who passed away yesterday evening at 4:30 o'clock at his home on Seventh street. Mrs. Cline who was seventy-four years old last Thursday, was the widow of George Cline, who died forty years ago She has made her home lately with her children. Five weeks ago she came here from Monroeville on a visit and while enroute suffered a slignt stroke of paralysis. Complications arose and she has gradually declined. For a week or more she had been unconscious and her death was expected momentarily. She leaves three daughters, all of whom were at her bedside during her illness. Tthey are, besides Mrs. David, Mrs. .1. A. Blew of Dyaz, Alabama, and Mrs. Hiliary Hoover of Monroeville. Mrs. Cline’s maiden name was Magner. One sister, Mrs. Rebekah Hunsicker, of Osago City, Kansas, sur-

vives. The deceased was a lady of fine character and personality, having never been ill until this fatal illness. The funeral will be held at Monroeville in the Christian church, Tuesday afternoon at two o’clock. The Rev. J. H. Mavity of this city will be in charge. Burial will be in the I. O. O. F. cemetery at Monroeville. The body will be taken overland by driving, and will leave here about 1:30 o'lclock cn Tuesday. CALLEDJO ARMS Rev. F. F. Thornburg, Chaplain of Third Regiment, Indiana Nat. Guard OFFICIALLY NOTIFIED To he Ready to Join Regiment —May be Called to Mexican Border. With the first steps taken to make the Indiana National guard ready for service on the Mexican border, came a telephone call this morning to Rev. F. F. Thornburg, pastor of the Methodist church this city, to be ready to join his regiment, the Third Regiment of Indiana National Guards, ordered mobilized at Auburn. Rev. Thornburg is chaplain of this regiment which has its headquarters at Auburn, at which city Rev. Thornburg was pastor, before coming to the Decatur church this spring. How soon he will leave is uncertain. His colonel, A. L. Kuhlman, ’phoned him to be ready to join the regiment at Indianapolis, when later orders will lie received as to that date. This may be tomorrow, or it may not be for four or five days; or It may not come at all, ihis depending upon how the matters will be adjusted. He may, be here for the services next Sunday, this matter being entirely uncertain at this time. A meeting of the official board of the church was held this afternoon, to consider the matter of getting a supply during the probable absence of the Rev. Thornburg. NOTICE. The rflen’s chorus of the Co-work-ers' class will meet this evening for practice. Let every member be present. W. F. BEERY, Instructor.

GOING TO MEXICO Wiley Austin, clerk at the Hotel Murray will go to Van Wert Tuesday to join Company “D” of the Second Ohio Infantry under Capt. Morrison preparatory to leaving for Mexico as soon as the Company is entirely organized. Mr. Austin received a letter from captain Morrison this morning stating he should come at once and bring any Decatur boys that wanted to come. More than likely someone from here will go. The company will go to Mexico. A SMALL FIRE. Fire, caused by an over heated oil burner, caused five dollars loss at the home of Mrs. Nowcke, 438 Mercer Avenue at ten-thirty o’clock today. Mrs. Nowcka was away at the time the fire started, and neighbors first saw the blaze. The oil had been lighted by one of Mrs. Nowcka’s children. oplnFWd’ay Ft. Wayne District Epworth League Convention Begins in This City ON TOMORROW NOON Local League Getting Ready to Entertain Several Hundred Visitors. Tomorrow morning will see the gathering and registration of two hundren and fifty or more delegates and visitors, at the Fort Wayne district Epworth League convention, which will be held in this city, beginining Tuesday noon and ending on Thursday noon. Committee meetings will be held Tuesday morning. The district has forty-eight towns and churches and representatives from these will be here. District Superintendent W. W. Martin has also requested that all the ministers attend the convention also. The registration headquarters will be at the Methodist church and elaborate preparations to entertain the visitors have been made. Lunch will be served there at noon by the Junior Epworth League. In the evening there will be a picnic supper at Waterworks park. The program: District Slogan —“What eve r, Wherever, Whenever Pleases Him.” Convention Song—“ Lead On, O King Eternal.” Tuesday Morning.

Registration and assignments. Cabinet meeting. Lunch. Tuesday Afternooon—l:oo. Meeting of convention committees. “Elements of Successful Christian Living:” “Practice of Bible Study”— Rev. F. F. Thornburg. Roll call of chapters, with brief oral reports from each chapter. Announcements, etc. "Temperance, as Seen by the City Mission Worker” —Rev. J. A. Nipper, Fort Wayne Rescue Mission. Departmental conferences. (Departmental conferences include separate conferences for presidents, first, second, third and fourth vice presidents, secretaries, treasurers and junior superintendents.) Reports of sub-district presidents. Summary of year by district secretary. Adjournment. Tuesday Evening—s:oo. (A specimen of an Epworth League institute evening.) Hike to river and picnic lunch. Social clinic at church, in charge of Miss Pauline McFann, Garrett. Special music. “Wawasee Sketch” Address—Rev. Chas. Smith, Peru. “Surprise.” Wednesday Morning—6:oo. Morning watch. Devotional —Georgiana Harrod. Swan communion service, in charge of Dr. W. W. Martin, assisted by leaguer pastors and local preachers. Breakfast. "Elements of Successful Christian Living:” “Practice of Prayer”—Rev. F. F. Thournburg, Decatur. Business. “India Hour”—Mrs. D. O. Erns(Contlnued on Page 3.)

MANY REPLIES Acceptance of Invitations to Community Supper Number Hundreds. FOUR HUNDRED COME Decoration Committee Busy —Pythian Sisters to Serve the Supper. It has come to the attention of the committee in Charge of the community supper which will be held on June 22 commencing at six o’clock at the sugar wareroom of the Holland St. Louis Sugar Company’s plant, that many young farmers of the county have net received an invitation to the affair because of the fact that mail relative to them invariably is addressed to their fathers. To these young men. County Agent, A. J. Hutchins extends a warm welcome add an invitation to come on in and get acquainted. If you farm the home place and father gets th email, you can readily see that you can be easily missed. But an invitation is extended Ito you. and the committee wants to see you present at the supper. The Pythian Sisters, the ladies degree of the Knights of Pytiiias will serve the supper. Two hundred and sixty acceptances were in the hands of county Agent Hutchins this morning. and other members of the committee have acceptances that will guarantee a crowd of at least four hundred. The workmen at the factory will have the room properly cleaned today and tomorrow afternoon the decorating committee, consisting of several local business men will decorate the room with the national colors. VACATION AT ACADEMY. The Sisters of St. Agnes have discontinued their music class until after August 15th. MOTOTdEATH Mrs. Sarah Ann Ford, the Mother of Charles Ford, of This City is, Dead. BURIAL ON SATURDAY Near New Corydon—Was Seventy Years of Age— Well Known Lady. Funeral services, with burial in the Suthberry cemetery near New Corydon, were held Saturday at the Friends church, by the Rev. Uptegraff, ’or Mrs. Sarah Ann Ford, whose death occurred Tuesday, at the age of seventy years, eight months and five days. She was born in Perry county, but when but two years of age, her parents moved to Mercer county, 0., where she grew to womanhood. She married to A. P. Ford, April, 2, 1865. To them ten children were bom, of whom five are living. They are Julia Hickmanof Pennsylvania, Enos at home: Minnie Coppie of Mich.; Susie Kemper, New Paris, Ind. Mrs. Ford was a Christian woman and well liked by all who know her. She as a members of the Friend's church. CHORUS TO MEET All members of the Decatur Men’s chorus are requested to meet at the Presbyterian church tonight for practice. The chorus will sing at the Community supper Thursday evening. All members please be present. DR. C. R. WEAVER o ILL WITH RHEUMATISM. John Christ, prominent garage keeper of Monroe, Ind., is suffering from a severe case of rheumatism, which contiues to keep him from working. He has been off duty nearly a month, and is still unable to work.

MRS. NEPTUNE'S FUNERAL Funeral services for Mrs. Adel Neptune were held Saturday afternoon at three o’clock at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Spangler. Rev. F. F. Thornburg of the Methodist church officiated. Music was furnidied by the ladies' quartet. Mrs. Eugene Runyon taking Mrs. Rice’s place in that. Among those from out of town who attended tlie funeral were Mr. and Mrs. George Spangler, Mr. and Mrs. Will Melching, Mrs. Margaret Meyers, Mrs. Llpes, Mrs. Hetzelberger, Herman Hobrock and daughter, Marie; Mrs. Jacob (Toss and daught°r Vivian, Mrs. Charles Bell, all of Fort Wayne; Mr. Spuller, Akron. MOVING TO FORT WAYNE Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schaub will move to Fort Wayne tomorrow. Mr. Schaub is a traveling salesman for the Vanne gut Hardware Company of Indianapolis. He was formerly engaged in the retail hardware business in this city. Miss Ludmilla Dornseif. Daughter of Pastor Rev. L. W. Dornseif BECOMES A BRIDE

Was Married to Rev. Ernest Witte, of Charlotte Hall, Maryland. Another very pretty wedding of Sunday was solemnized at the St. Peter's Lutheran church in Root town ship, when Rev. Ernst Witte, of Charlotte Hall, Md., claimed Miss Ludmilla Dornseif, daughter of the pastor, the Rev. and Mrs. L. W. Dornseif, as his bride. Miss Dornseif has been a member of the congregation for the past sis teen years, and was also a member of the choir, and the spacious church was filled with her friends and relatives who witnessed the ceremony. At 4:45 Professor Dorn, at the pipe organ, began Lohengrin’s wedding march, to which the wedding procession entered, taking their places at the altar, where the bride’s father, Rev. Dornseif, with whom the btide entered, performed the ceremony. The service was a beautiful one, and impressive. During the ceremony, Rev. Hinz, pastor of the Decatur Lutheran church, played softly, “Schubert's Serenade.” The wedding party made a lovely appearance. There were four bridesmaids, they being Misses Lydia and Tabea Dornseif; Miss Helen Stoeppelwerth, Peru;, and Lydia Wynekon. Fort Wayne. Their gowns were of white voile, becomingly made and they carried large bouquets of daisies, tied with big white moline bows. The maid of honor. Miss Gertrude Vucker, Fort Wayne, wore a handsome frock of white net and the bouquet she carried was of dark red roses. The bride was unusually pretty in her lovely costume of white crepe de chine, with trimmings of chiffon mouseline and taffeta. The gown was made with a long point train, and fully as long was her tulle veil which was fitted to her hair with a wreath of myrtle. In her arms she carried a beautiful shower bouquet of bride’s rises and swansonia. White satin pumps and other accessories in harmony, completed the costume..

Attending the bridegroom were the best man, the bride’s brother, Rev. Ixruis Dornseif, of Eagle, Neb., and the four groomsmen, Edwin Witte, Buffalo, N. Y.; Herbert Trier, Herbert Pfeiffer, Fort Wayne, and Ernest Hasold, Hoagland. There were seventy guests for the reception at the parsonage, where a supper was also served. Pink and white were manifest in the decorations of the dining room, with its streamers draped with white wedding bells, and the tables for the supper, pretty with their daisies. The wedding cake was a fine centerpiece. White and green predominated in the decorations of the other rooms. Rev. and Mrs. Witte will leave the latter part of the week for a visit (Continued on Page 2.)

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NUPTIAL VOWS AREPLIGHTED Home of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dugan Scene of Lovely Wedding. MISS NAOMI DUGAN And Mr. A. R. Morton Take Vows in Presence of Many Friends. The wedding Saturday evening in which Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dugan gave their daughter, Naomi, in marriage to Mr. Alexander R. Morton, of Chicago, was marked by unusually beautiful appointments, lovely and perfect in every detail and attended with supreme happiness in which it was the pleasure of one hundred and fifty guests to share. Nature, itself, could scarce have provided a more beautiful setting than was the Dugan home which blossomed into a really bower-like beauty under the skillful and artistic hands of Miss Mildred Flick and Mrs. Shive, from the Flick Floral company, of Fort Wayne. The wide and spacious hall, with its broad open stairway, and wide archways through which opened vistas of even more spacious rooms, lent itself especially well to the decorative talent of the artists. It was a pink and white wedding and these colors with greenery predominated in the floral adornments. Southern, laurel, ferns, pink and white. Shawyer roses and snap dragon, with the snowy swansonia, were combined tastefully—yet with the simplicity that nature itself gives to its beauty of arrangement. The fragrant flowers and vine-like laurel seemed to climb with natural grace above windows and archways, as on trellises, in their crystal hanging wallvases, blending harmoniously with the woodland greens and browns of the wall frescoes and woodworks, heavy beams and the wicker baskets for the flowers. The lights of the — chandeliers were softened with foil- . age and laurel. Not only was the bower like effect in the garlands of flowers and greenery that outlined the arches and windows, and mirrors, but also in the general arrangement otherwise. The several open brick fireplaces were banked with the laurel and syringa blossoms, while wicksr baskets and crystal vases on mantels were filled with the pink and white roses, swansonia and snapdragon. The library in its soft green colors, had a marked simplicity in its decorations of daisies alone. These overflowed large brown wicker baskets, and a large wicker jardiniere of daisies banked the fireplace. The balustrades of the wide open stairway were twined and banked with the laurel, from which peeped the blossoms. Vases and wicker Baskets of the flowers were supported by the balustrade pedestals, or were swung in hanging basket effect from the heavy beams, on either side of the stairway entrance. At the foot, like floral guards, stood two tall wicker vases of pink and white peonies. The twilight that filtered through the stained glass of the wide window at the stairway’s half-landing did not dim the long row of candles on the ledge that twinkled a welcome to the guests as they were ushered up the stairway and directed by a group of four young boys—Ralph Tyndall, Dick Heller, David Hensley and Dick Archbold, who were doorkeepers and ushers, passing the guests on to and from the receiving line, in which Stood Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dugan and Dr. and Mrs. Hart, of Chicago, Mrs. Hart being a sister of the groom. It was past this same twinkling line of candles and down the lovely pathway of the stairway that later the pridal procession passed, when the harpist, Mrs. Horton, of Fort Wayne, and her violinist, who played during the evening, merged into the Lohengrin wedding march at eightthirty o’clock. Not, however, before the four young boys named before JContlnued" ~