Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 203, Decatur, Adams County, 26 August 1916 — Page 1

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THE BIRD MASQUE Remarkable, New Feature Will be Presented at the Chautauqua Tonight. A LECTURE ON BIRDS This Afternoon —Chautauqua Will Close With Julia Claussen Day. ♦+++ + + + + PROGRAM TONIGHT—7:4S. + 4 Bird Masque, “Sanctuary" and + 4> Pageant. ♦ 4. MONDAY’S PROGRAM. + 4. supt.—Glenn H. Thomas. + 4. Afternoon Music—3:oo p. m. + 4. Afternoon Lecture—3:3o p. m. + 4- Evening Music —7:45 p. m. + 4 Evening Entertainment—B:3o. + 4 AFTERNOON. + 4- Lecture, “The World We Live * 4 in" —Dr. E. T. Hagerman. + + MONDAY EVENING. + 4 Song Recital —Julia Claussen, + 4- prima donna, contralto, Chi- + 4 cago Grand Opera company, + 4 assisted by Pierre Henrotte, + 4- concert meister, Chicago 4 4 Grand Opera company; Mar- + 4- cel Charlier, conductor, Chi- + cago Grand Opera com- + pany. + +++++♦+ ♦♦ + + + + + The seven days’ Redpath Chautauqua season will come to a close next Monday with what has been called ■Julia Cualssen Day.” This opera singer will give the closing night's concert. Monday evening. Monday afternoon. Dr. E. T. Hagerman will lecture on “The World We Live in." Today is “Bird Day” and our feathered friends are receiving due attention in story, song and pageant. Ernest Harold Baynes lectured this afternoon on “My Wild Bird Enests.” and this evening the great Bind Masque. “Sanctuary” and Pageant, with marvelous scenic effects, will be presented. In this thirty or more local children will take part, having been well drilled by Miss Franc Dunning, who is in charge of the junior Chautauqua. The largest audience that has filled the tent this season was not disappointed in the band concert last evening. Alfred Sweet, with his company of twelve other WJiite Hussars gave the program that was of high standard as band music and came up to expectations. There' were also severaJ choral numbers, the boys being gifted also as singers. The reading. “The Fortune Hunter," by Edwin Whitney yesterday afternoon was remarkably fine. Taking the parts of several characters, he gave the play with as good effect as individual characters could have done. The story is a beautiful one and thrilling as well, the interest being sustained throughout. Monday's Program. Julia Claussen Day. The great musical climax of the entire Chautauqua program comes again this year on the closing night, when Julia Claussen, of the Chicago Grand Opera company. whose successes of the recent opera season have even surpassed her former achievements, will appear in a concert. She will be assisted by Pierre Henrotte. concert meister of the Chicago Grand Opera company, and Marcel Charlier, also one of the leading conductors of ’ the Chicago Grand Opera company. A year ago when Miss Alice Nielson toured the Redpath chautauquas, it was widely stated in the musical journals that the Chautauqua opened a new field to the greatest musicians. The fact that such a great artist as Julia Claussen has been engaged for this season and that the assisting artists are also well known in the grand opera world, at once establishes the fact that the move to give the chautauquas the greatest music was not a spasmodic one, but permanent. Julia Claussen's success during the recent grand opera season in Chicago was sensational. She sang in German, French and Italian roles, thereby showing wonderful versatility. She also appeared as soloist with the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra in both New York and Chicago, following her grand opera season, also at a recital in the Blackstone theater, Chicago, in all of which appearances she received the highest commendations of the press. In fact, it is said that she has never had an adverse criticism. While her versatility, as above indicated, is so great that she can sing in many foreign languages, on her Chautauqua tour she

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k will present a goodly portion of her ’ program in English. • Julia Claussen comes from the land long ago made famous by Jenny Lind. She was educated in the lead- ? ing conservatories of Sweden, and sang before the crowned heads of that country. She has been in America three years and greatly loves the American people. Mr. Henrotte will render violin so- , los and Mr. Charlier piano solos on ’ each program. Mme. Claussen and her family, and assisting artists, will make the entire five months' tour from Jacksonville to Chicago in a private car. Dr. E. T. Hagerman, the Monday afternoon lecturer, occupied the lead ing pulpit of his denomination in each of six cities. He went from the • First Methodist church of Des Moines. • lowa, to the First church ‘in Mil- • waukee, the largest Methodist church • in the state of Wisconsin. He has • never been troubled with empty > pews. « Dr. Hagerman has the gift of put- > ting fundamental truths very simply. • He discusses problems in the lan (Continued on Paga 2.) preferFTeath Rev. Father Ignatius Thornazin Jumps from Sherman Hotel Window. WANTED A PARISH Retired on Account of Age. Preferred Death to Inactivity. (United Press Service) Chicago, Aug. 26—(Special to Daily Democrat)—lgnatius Thomazin, 70. Catholic priest of Albany, Minnesota, plunged to his death here today from the rear of the sixth floor of the Sherman hotel. His head struck the pole of a garbage wagon and his brains were dashed out. Mrs. Martha McCloskey, his house keeper, who says she usedto live in Shelbyville, Indiana, declared Thomazin has been despondent because of his retirement from active church service on account of age. He had applied for a parish and had been refused. Shelbyville, Ind.. Aug. 26—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Mrs. Martha MeClosky, housekeeper for Rev. Ignatius, Thomazin. who committed suicide by .'jumping from the sixth story pf the Hotel Sherman in Chicago today, is well known here. Her brother is a prominent jeweler. o— PARSONAGE BOOSTERS. The Pleasant Mills parsonage project is proceeding nicely. We are so near the goal, including that which is in sight, that it encourages all of our hearts to know that it is going to be a sure go. We are all appreciating the discovery that we have more interested in Pleasant Mills and Salem's success than we thought of in the beginning. “All aboard” for the new parsonage. Watch the list steadily and surely grow. Previously Subscribed. Willshire Hardware Co $150.00 Ladies’ Aid at Pleasant Mills 100.00 A. Wilson Gulick 100.00 O. J. Suman 50.00 Dale Cowan • 25.00 Jacob Rawley 25.00 Kate Coverdale 25.00 Miss S. A. Coverdale 25.00 Marcellus Davidson 25.00 Charles Schenck 25.00 H. O. Davis 25.00 Walter Steele 25.00 Charles Teasel 25.00 ' C. O. Green 18.00 Mrs. M. A. Clark 10.00 Mr. John Cowan 7.00 ’ Mr. Reason Schaffer 7.00 ’ Miss Rhoda Jones 2.50 New Subscriptions. J. D. Winans 25.00 E. T. Jones 20.00 A. Z. Smith 50.00 ’ Henry Teieple 10,00 G. R. Hileman, the Overland 1 Garage 25.00 ‘ W. P. Johnson 10.00 Warren Jones 5.00 E. Ehersom 500 H. M. Crownover 25.00 ‘ Mrs. David Archer 5.00 ’ Mrs. A. McMillen 5.00 Asa McMillen 1000 ft _ . ay t BEN HUR NOTICE ——• n The Ben Hur degree team will meet j. at the hall Monday evening at 8:00 ,t o'clock for special drill practice. This 1- is for special degree work for Friday e evening. All members take notice. 4

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, August 26, 1916.

BUYS NEW CARS r pu— , IR i Decatur Interurban Line Has Placed Orders for Three New Cars. I FINE STEEL COACHES i t For Passegers and One Freight Car — Hourly Service January 1. The Decatur Interurban line has placed orders for three new steel passenger coaches and one new freight car, to be placed in service on Jan. 1, when hourly passenger service will be installed on the line. The same company is building a new abutment at the McKnight culvert to replace the one washed out by the floods of 191). City Service Extended. The traction company will, within the next few days extend its regular city service on South Calhoun street to Lexington avenue, one block north of McKinnle avenue. The cars will be operated over the Decatur Interurban tracks, and as soon as the paving job on South Calhoun street is finished the city service will he maintained to the city limits, at Cornell Circle. The ne\y steel now Is being laid. J. levering Jones, one of the heavy stockholders of the Fort Wayne & Northern Indiana Traction company, has returned to Philadelphia, after having spent several days in Fort Wayne. The new standards for the equipment of interurban sub-stations have been announced by the U. S. Bureau of Standards. It is claimed that, if the government requires all Indiana traction lines to comply with these standards it will cost in excess of $2. 000,000. The Northern Indiana would be hit for over $50,000 for sub-station equipment.—Fort Wayne News. STRUCKJBY TRAIN Eli Hendricks and Son. Noah, of Berne Hit by Express No. 9 ON ERIE RAILROAD At Preble Crossing Yesterday Afternoon —No One Injured. An Overland 83. owned by Eli Hendricks of Berne, and driven by himself, carrying his son Noah Hendricks, was struck by westbound Erie express number nine at the Preble crossing at four o'clock yesterday afternooi, practically demolishing the front end of the car. but without injuring either of the occupants. The two men were in Preble attending to business and had just started for home, driving up to the ends -„f the ties of the Erie crossing when they sighted the train bearing down upon them at a probable speed of fifty miles an hour. The driver of the car threw out his clutch, and his son. reached jammed on the brakes. The car was stalled and the cylinder of the engine struck the car, sending it crashing against a post at the side of the road. The wheels, radiator, fenders, lights, motor and frame were demolished. The bed is uninjured and is probably the only part of the machine of any valu a . The engineer of the train stopped immediately and backed up to determine if anyone had been killed. ABOUT THE SICK. Joseph Shady, eighty-five, father of Mrs. Martin Beery, this city, who went to Elkhart two weeks ago to visit with , relatives, was operated upon for kid- , ney trouble. The word of the operai tion comes as a surprise to relatives i here as he was in good health when i leaving here. Word was received by i J. D. Stults. Mr. Shady’s guardian. SPECIAL PICNIC CAR A special interurban car will leave Decatur station at 8:30 o’clock Sunday t morning for the Yeomen state picnic ) at Robinson park, Sunday. The fare s will be fifty cents for the round trip r to Fort Wayne and anybody may take advantage of the excursion rates.

YEOMEN TO PICNIC 1 A car-load of Yeomen from this city will leave at 8:30 o'clock tomorrow morning for Fort Wayne where tho ; annual picnic of the local lodge will be held in Robinson park. A number of local Moose will accompany the Yeomen, they going to attend the initiatory work to be held by the Moose in Fort Wayne Sunday. All Yeomen and their families, and the public are ' invited to attend. A special rate ,-f fifty cents tor the round trip has been given by the interurban compan;. Tickets good on any train. Those not yet having tickets may get them of Lawrence Gerard at the Democrat office yet tonight. o STRIKE LOOMS NEARER AS BOTH SIOESSTANO PAT Railway Heads Working on Their Final Answer to President Wilson. KNOW BEFORE NIGHT Whether or Not There Will be Railroad Strike —Wilson to Capital. (United Press Service) BULLETIN. Washington, D. C., Aug. 26—(Special to Daily Democrat) —President Wilson arrived at the capitol at 2:33 o’clock this afternoon without advance notice of his intention to call on congress. The president went immediately to the president’s room off the senate chamber and sent for Senator Newlands, chairman of the interstate commerce commission, and Senator Kern, democratic floor leader. j Washington, Aug. 26 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—The situation was unimproved this afternoon at three o'clock. It appeared that the question of whether there would be a strike would be settled before night. For hours in a room at the Williard hotel the heads of the railroads argued over the language in which they should declare to the president their final stand. They worked over and over a paragraph of a proposition for settlement which they had little reason to believe the brotherhoods would accept, but which they desired to be an unanswerable brief of their side of the case. At the white house the president deferred meeting with the brotherhood representatives until this proposition of the executives had reached him. The word went out that regardless of the belief of the railroad presidents in the finality of their own action the president was not prepared to allow the negotiations to drop. He will insist on continuing efforts to prevent the break, it was said. “If the proposition forecasted by the railroads is made,” an administration official close to the president said, “the situation is bad —but it is not final." The president spent some time today with Secretary of the Interior Lane, who. because of his long service on the interstate commerce commission, has been one of the president's important advisers, in the railroad situation. Lane declined to discuss the matter when he left the white house. Senator Newlands. chairman of the senate interstate commerce commission, who earlier had advised the president that action could not be taken by the present congress on legislation desired by the railroads if they granted any concession to the men, also called at the white house. He left a written communication. but its contents were kept secret. Washington, Aug. 26,—(Special to Daily Democrat)—With suddenness a crisis came today in the negotiations to prevent the threatened railroad strike. A break between the railroad brotherhood representatives, repre ■ senting 400,000 men, and the railroad presidents representing twelve billion dollars of capital seemed certain. The presidents have ignored the peace pro- , posal of President Wilson and have • decided to submit a substitute propos- . ition which even the most optomistir , feel the brotherhoods will turn down. , The proposition was to be ratified , by the executives when they met at (Continued on page 2)

LOOPED THE LOOP ' Andy Artman, Driving C. r C. Johns, a Salesman, Loops the Loop. ) J EAST OF DECATUR 1 Johns Gets Three Broken 1 Ribs, a Deep Gash and Bruises. C. C. Johns, of Van Wert, Ohio, traveling in the interests of the 1. H. C., broke three ribs, cut a three-inch gash on his back and sustained severe bruises, and Andy Artman of • this city sustained a severe shaking up and scratches, when a Ford car, which they were driving, went off the road east of the city last night. They were driving at a fair rate of I speed, when the machine swerved out of a rut into the dtich. The windshield, a fender and a wheel were broken. Employes of the Schafer store brought them in, taking Johns to Dr. D. D. Clark for treatment. i Johns was removed to his home last night. Witness of the accident say the Ford "looped the loop" and landed in the ditch. The fact that Johns was severely injured, while Artman, the driver, was not. indicates that Johns was thrown from the machine when the accident occurred. The accident happened late in the afternoon. o TO TAKE VACATION William Page, manager of the Mor- ’ ris five and ten cent store, will enter upon a week’s vacation tomorrow. With his wife and son Erol, he will leave Sunday morning for the north- , ern lakes where they expect to have fine outing. John Snoglebinder. as sistant manager of the Hartford City I Morris five and ten store will be in charge during Mr. Page’s asence. MORE SOY BEANS More Farmers Exhibit Interest in This Great Forage Crop. EXPERIMENTAL ACRES Under Direction of Purdue University Will S how Good Results. That the farmers of Adams county are taking a healthy interest in soy beans and that they intended to get out of this new crop for this county, all there Is in it, is amply shown by Ed Miller, who occupies the exact northeastern corner of Kirkland township. He has about five acres of soy beans which he is going to cut for silage. Farmers who desire to watch this crop as a silage feed, and to see the value derived from it will be given an opportunity to do so, as Mr. Miller is keeping accurate data, and through the Purdue University will be averaged and published. John and Ilario Mann are also experimenting with the beans. They have four acres which they are going to forage. They will turn hogs into the field, weighing them before starting. and when foraged they will determine the gains. However, they will use a corn feed along with the forage, using theamounts Purdue has found economically correct to bring out the largest gains. This exv-erimfiit will also be watched with interest. If you are a farmer, and do not know about soy beans, better watch these experiments and learn of the value of this crop. Mr. Hutchins leaving on September first will not affect the experiments, as Purdue university will furnish a man, even if the county does not reemploy a county agent, to finish the work Mr. Hutchins has begun. Mr. Hutchins won't desert the. experiments 1 altogether either. ■ County Agent A. J. Hutchins this at'- ' ternoon brought in a stalk of soy beans carrying 750 pods. He secured ' the stalk out of a field of the beans on ' the Jacob Graber farm in Monroe >• township. This field of beans will be used to fill a silo and data will be ’ kept so that the results of the crop jiray be determined.

SOME HOOSIER BRIEFS • United Press Service) Frankfort,, Aug. 26 —(Special to the Dally Democrat) —Because his wife threw butcher knives at him an kisses at another map, Charles A. James, formerly an ensign in the Salvation Army here, has sued his wife for divorce. Elwood, Aug. 26—-(Special to Daily Democrat) —On account of several i cases of smallpox In Elwood this summer every teacher and pupil who attends the public or parochial schools as well as all others employed in the I' school buildings must be vaccinated before they take up their school work according to an order issued by the city board of health. Syracuse. Aug. 26—(Special to the Daily Democrat)—Because of the coni weather during the months of May and June, summer resort owners of Wawasee have joined together in a proposal for a closed season for nil lakes in the state for the month of May and a part of June. They say they have lost money for years during these months. WHERE’S ALBERT? * Why Don’t Charlie Fairbanks, or Jim Watson or Other Personal Friend INDUCE ALBERT J. To Tell Progressives Why They Should Vote for Justice Hughes? (By Willis S. Thompson) Indianapolis, Ind.. Aug. 26 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Everybody is wondering why Charlie Fairbanks, or Jim Watson, or Tobe Hert, or Harry New, or Jim Goodrich, or Joe Kealing. or some of the other warm personal friends of Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, do not induce Albert Jeremiah to let the republican machine press bureau announce his Indiana speaking dates, when the progressives of Indiana can hear him tell why they should vote to support Hughes and Fairbanks and Watson and New and Kealing and Hemenway and Tobe Hert. Albert Jeremiah can also take the opportunity, it he cares to discuss state secrets, to tell his Indiana friends how Candidate Hughes has promised to send him to Berlin in case the candidate should by any miraculous chance become president. The action of Harry S. New in sending out a pamphlet to the farmers, which might have been prepared twenty years ago as far as its application to present-day conditions are concerned, tells the farmers that they will never be prosperous until Jim Hemenway and Joe Kealing and his crowd again write the tariff laws, is on a pat with the say-nothing speeches of Candidate Hughes. It was to be expected that Mr. New. who belongs to the reactionary stand pat school, would be able to see anything of interest to the farmer outside of a tariff, although when pressed during the Canadian debate. Elihu Root admitted that a tariff on farm products was largely a fake. It is common knowledge among all farmers more important legislation in their interests has been enacted under the present administration than in years, and that Senator Kern in his capacity as senate leader piloted all these measures through. The farm loan act is worth more to the farmers than all the tariffs ever devised. The agricultural extension law. the rural credits law. the parcel post law—for all these Kern voted and worked, and he can well afford to place his actual practical work along these lines against the farsical campaign jabber of Standpat New. ■■ —— ’ -n — FOR FIVE CENTS EXTRA _ I (United Press Service) Richmond. Ind., Aug. 26 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—lf you have a fair supply of whiskers you can for five cents extra have them done over to resemble those worn for some years past by ex Justice Hughes. An enterprising barber of this city is prepar'd 1 to trim any batch of facial head growth into a speaking ligeness of the • republican nominee. r The barber claims he has made a I special study of the Hughes beard, its 1 origin and early days and the influb ence of its early life. So far, du?, he b says, to a decadence in whiskers as b facial ornament, he has not done a )' rushing business in beards a la | Hughes. ]

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NAVY IS GROWING Wilson Administration Not Neglecting the United States Navy as REPUBLICANS CHARGE ——* Addition of Many Fighting United Has Been Made With More to Come. -A The Wilson Administration has added 96 vessels to the active and reserve flleets in the Atlantic and will have 25 battleships, 42 destroyers, 22 submarines and 72 other vessels. 117 in all, cooperating in the summer maneuvers this year. The Navy Department and the Atlantic Fleet have been given the best organization they ever had. Naval gunnery has been developed during the past three years at maximum ranges to a point where it is dangerous for an adversary to challenge the Atlantic Fleet. During the same three years the Administration has authorized the construction of 10 dreadnaughts and battle cruisers, compared with 4 battleships authorized in the first three years of Taft. During this period the construction of 4 scout cruisers has been authorized against none in Roosevelt’s second administration and none in Taft's Twenty-six destroyers have been authorized during Secretary Daniels’ regime, compared with 15 in the first three years of Roosevelt and 20 in the first three years of Taft. Seventy-six submarines have be?n authorized, or 25 more than were authorized in the preceeding sixteen years by the Republicans. In three years the Democrats have appropriated for the increase in tho navy $181,945,535. This exceeds the first three annual appropriations of the Mc-Klnley-Roosevelt Administration for the same purpose by more than $101,000,000; of the first three years of Roosevelt’s Administration by over $94,000,000, and the first three years of Taft’s by over $102,000,000. Ammunition has been increased to an unprecedented extent, and with tho new bill provision is being made for $9,541,785 more for ammunition in three years by the Democrats than the Republicans provided in the last five years they were in power. The capacity of the naval torpedo works has been increased more than 500 per cent, in three years, and SI,OOO is being saved on every torpedo manufactured. The capacity of the naval powder factory has been increased from 3.000000 to 6.000.000 pounds. The construction of a projectile factory has been authorized, incuring the purchase of projectiles at cost price. Electric propulsion has been installed in three of the newest and finest battleships and promises to make them much more efficient in every respect. A big gun has been mounted on the newer battleships, the product of this Administration, which is declared to shoot further and straighter and to hit harder than any known naval gun. The Democrats have added 6.331 to (he enlisted strength of the navy, filling vacancies that could not be filled under Roosevelt or Taft, and a Democratic Congress is authorizing an additional strength of 16,500 men. The Democrats have established a Naval Reserve. The number of midshipmen at Annapolis has been increased by 831. The first direct and generous appropriation for naval aeronautics has been made by the Democratic Congress. the new bill carrying $3,500,000 when it left the House. The Republicans provided $50,000 to SIOO,OOO a year, never more. The Navy Department has saved , $1,110,000 on armor contracts and es- . fected numerous other economies ae- ( gregatlng millions. ’ THE CHALMERS SALES MAN. , The Kalver-Noble Garage company I which has the county agency for the Chalmers motor car. has engaged exCounty Clerk Ferdinand Bleeke as the county demonstrator and salesman. Mr. Bleeke will have charge of 1 the Chalmers sales all over Adams s county and will canvass the community for this popular car. *. _ 0 s Mrs. L- E. Keller and her sister, i Miss Hazel McNary, of Burnett, went i’to Monroe this afternoon to spend the j week-end with relatives.