Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 253, Decatur, Adams County, 24 October 1916 — Page 1

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ARE RETREATING Roumanians Forced to Retreat from Between Two ; Teutonic Artnies. LOSE BIG CITY Troops of Central Powers Crashing on in Wild Victory. (United Press Service) Ixtndon, Oct. 24 (Special to Dally Democrat) —Two powerful armies attacking from the east and westthreaten to crush Roumania and put her out of the war before winter. Armies of the central powers have captured nearly one third of the Constanza-Cer-mivoda railway and are now pressing on Cernavoda itself. The Roumanian forces which evacuated Constanza is falling back hastily to avoid anihilation. An official statement from Petrograd today declared the German forces had occupied a junction twenty miles west of Constanza. The Serbians have resumed their advance against Monastir, capturing trenches to the depth of half a mile and inflicting heavy loss, the Paris war office announced. On the Somme. British troops secured against attack one thousand yards of German trenches in their advance on Bapaume. Providence. R. I. Oct. 24 —(Special to Dally Democrat) —That Captain Boy ed. debarred German naval attache, of the Washington embassy, dispatched the U-53 and two other submarines here, to force a United States ruling on their activities was claimed by the Providence Journal today. Further, that paper stated that the three submarines are still In American waters. GERARD AT LONG BRANCH (United Press Service) By Robert J. Bender. Long Beach, N. J.. Oct. 24 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Every subject in the German situation including the submarine issue was to be gone into this afternoon during a conference between President Wilson and James W. Gerard American ambassador to Berlin. Gerard has luncheon with the president and then expected to spend most of the afternoon with him. Gerard said he bore no official communication from Germany, either on the submarine question or peace possibilities, though he expected there will be a full discussion of both during the conference. The ambassador said he would take no part in the campaign. CANADIAN RAILROAD STRIKE (United Press Service) Winnepeg, Can.. Oct. 24 —(Special to Daily Democrat)--Using an appeal to patriotism Premier Borden at Ottawa today issued an address to the Canadian Pacific trainmen to delay their general coast to coast strike scheduled for five p. m. tomorrow. The trainrtien replied that a delay is now impossible pointing to the roads bountiful earnings on account of the war. AVIATOR DROWNED (United Press Service) Chester, Penn., Oct. 24—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Alexander Brown Y>f Bryn Mawr was drowned today in the Deleware river while making his final flight to qualify for a diploma in a school of aviation. He miscalculated the distance while attempting to drop to the surface of the river and dived under at a terrific speed. The body was recovered shortly afterward. GIRLS GET RAISE. (United Press Service) Bluffton, Ind.. Oct. 24 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—A telegram received here this afternoon by the local manager of the Boss Manufactur ing company, operators of a glove factor), is to the effect that hereafter the girls will be asked to work only fiftyfour hours a week and will be granted fifteen per cent over their present wage. WHEAT SOARS FURTHER (United Press Service). Chicago. Oct. 24 —-(Special to Daily Democrat)—Wheat went to $1.79V6 on the Chicago market today—an increase of nearly five cents over yesterday.

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| GETS MEXICAN CURIOS. ' Mrs. Fred LaDelle is In receipt of a pretty assortment of Mexican work from her son. Clifford, who is with . Company E, First regiment, near the Mexican border. A silver medal which he won, bears on Its plate, "Expert Rifleman," telling the story of its award. A Mexican blanket shows lovely work; a statue of Villa; , a Mexican hand made bead watch fob; a leather pillow with Mexican painting; a hand carved cane are among the many pretty things, be- ' sides many cards depicting Mexican life, as well as life of the soldiers on the border. One postcard shows ■a picture of the Y. M. C. A. headquarters. VILLA NE«R CITY Bandit Villa Expected to Attack Chihuahua City any Moment. REFUGEES ARRIVE I And Confirm Reports of Bandit's Activity—Carranza’s Decree. (United Press Service) El Paso, Oct. 2, —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Hundreds of refugees fleeing from Chihuahua City streamed into Juardez during the night and today, bringing confirmation of reports of Villas presence outside Chihuahua City. These refugees declared that the Villistas are on the western side of the city and an attack on the northern Mexican capital is expected at any moment. About midnight three hundred refugees from the city arrived at Jaurez On one car were thirty girls, daughters of the most prominent families in the capital. Nearly all of the refugees left because they feared Villa would again enter Chihuahua City and some believed Mexican government troops will evacuate the city when the attack begins. Mexico City. Oct. 24—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Several of the most prominent military and civilian leaders of Mexico today pledged General Carranza their support in the coming presidential election, following a meeting last night. Carranza issued a decree today providing that salaries shall be paid in the national mold or its equivalent throughout the republic. Salaries of government employees will be governed by a special decree to be issued later. The decree fixes on the basis of the national gold coin. o SUPERINTENDENTS MEET County School Superintendent E. S. Christen and City School Superintendent. M. F. Worthman will leave tonight for Indianapolis to attend the state superintendents’ meeting. Tomorrow Miss Catherine Christen will go to Indianapolis to attend the state teachers’ meetihg. She will return byway of Lafayette where she will spend the week-end with her brother, Ellis, a student at Purdue university. On Saturday she will attend the big football game which makes that day a big one in college circles. INDIANA DEMOCRATIC (United Press Service) Ney York, Oct. 24—(Special to the Daily Democrat) —Indiana, and New York were placed in the democratic column today by Senator Thomas Taggart and Judge Alton B. Parker, calling at democratic national headquarters today. ‘‘We will carry Indiana, by fifty thousand," Taggart said. "If things were not all right in Indiana 1 would be there working." DEAD. (United Press Service) Frankfort, Ind., Oct. 24 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —While standing on a step-ladder at his home here today Marion Spencer, 72, suffered a stroke of apoplexy and fell, breaking his neck. He was a member of the famous "Wilder Brigade,” of the Seven-ty-second regiment. SON IS BORN A nine pound boy, who has been ’ named Roman Judius Parent, Jr. was i born yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. Roma - Parent, 516 W. Jefferson street. This - is their first child. Mrs. aPrent was formerly Miss Clara Tricker.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, October 24, 1916.

TO INSPECT ROAD Track Inspection of G. R. & I. Railroad Will be Made Tomorrow. DIVISION ENGINEERS And Others Will Pass Over in Special Train Wednesday and Thursday. The track inspection of the Gram! Rapids & Indiana railway over the line by Genera) Manager W. B. Wood whose party will consist of the divi sion engineers and division superin tendents. Starting from Richmead the inspection train will consist of ar inspection car, a Pullman sleeper, a coach and the private car of Genera' Manager Wood. Leaving Richmond al 6:30 o’clock, a daylight run will bt made by the Inspecting party through to Muskegon, Mich, the track inspec tion to proceed enroute. At night the parly will be in Mackinac. Thursday morning the party of officials will closely scrutinize the tracks and road bed into Grand Rapids, where the in specting duties will end. Manager Wood will be accompanied by Supt. B. H. Hudson, Division Engl neer R. G. Jones, Trainmaster R. E Casey, Supervisor Thomas Steuarl and Supervisor D .R. Wright, of the southern division; Supt. J. W. Hunter Division Engineer C. L. Barnaby Trainmaster V. H. Eddy, togethei with the road supervisors of the northern division. Other officials i-i the party will include Assistant Train master Thomas S. Fox, Road Forq map of Engines A. L. Lopshire, Mas ter Carpenter H. M. Large, Divisior Engineer J. F. Betts and W. F. Benz assistant in the engineering corps. Hobo Attacks Lucile Smith, Daughter of Dr. W. E. Smith, Last Night. ALONG CLOVER LEAF Escaped After Robbing Her of Two Finger Rings— Girl Not Hurt. Lucile Smith. 19. daughter of Dr. W. E. Smith of this city, was attacked and robbed of two rings by a hobo who attacked her while she was on her way home from the Radebush school house at five o’clock last night. The attack happened along the Clover Leaf right-of-way over which the young woman was coming into the city. Miss Smith in relating the story of the assault said that she was walking over some old ties that section men had removed when the first intimation she had of an attack was when the thug grabbed her around the neck and began choking her. She called for help and he jammed a handk.rschief in her mouth. In the struggle she smashed his nose and kicked him badly. He in turn tore a class ring and a bloodstone set ring from her fingers. He got no money. A passing freight then pulled in and the fireman seeing the struggle thought the two young people were “fooling.” The thug released the girl and jumped on the train. Miss Smith returned to a nearby house and telephoned her father. He got Sepli Melchi. deputy sheriff Jacobs and ran to the scene of the attack. The police rounded up six hoboes but the girl was unable to identify any of them as the man who assaulted her. A telephone message was sent to Bluffton and the sheriff there watched the incoming train for the assailant who was described as being of a heavy build, wearing a red sweater and about twenty-two years old. Miss Smith’s throat was scratched and the muscles are sore this morning, but she suffered no severe injuries. The fright constituted the most serious shock. WILSON WINS In the straw vote being conducted by Smith, Yager and Falk yesterday’s balloting gave Woodrow Wilson 52 votes and Hughes 21 votes.

c 1 E ’fl W-. r Bp ? i. ' ■ ' A m i » z. W i MR. DICK MILLER '■ Os Indianapolis. Prominent business man. democrat T' ic leader, well known bond man, and '* a speaker of ability will address the 11 Young Voters Democratic club in this a city Thursday night at eight o’clock *1 You are cordially invited to hear him lt The editor of this paper has the honoi ,e to call Mr. Miller his friend and we h guarantee you that all the claims made for him as a business man are e more than true. He will give an in y teresting talk. Be sure to hear him 11 —■ - ' ’• A BOWLING ALLEY (1 ■— - Knights of Pythias Will In- ‘ stall a Double Alley r This Week. f, t * o NOT PUBLIC ALLEY n st Company Composed of sn Members Formed and Organized Last Night. At a called meeting at the Knights L of. Pythias home last night the forma tion of a bowling alley association was made. The association will •» buy and install two bowling allays in the cellar of the home. Work upon the installation will begin this week. Fifty Knights formed the company and of their number five were selected as a board of directors. The dir ? ectors are A. D. Suttles, C. W. Knapp Henry Dellinger, James Hurst, and M. F. Worthman. Os their number p the directors nominated and elected the following as executive officers: C. W. Knapp president, Mr. F. Worthman secretary, and A. I). Suttles as treasuser. Two alleys will be installed. They '■ will be for the use of the Knights and ■ their introduced friends only ' and 3 will not be operated as a public alliy. 1 *— ON A FURLOUGH p \ Rev. F. F. Thornburg Will Leave Texas for Deca1 tur November 1. < TO ARRIVE SATURDAY i e November 4 for Twenty-day I Furlough—Will Preach Here Sunday, Nov. 5. 1 e Rev. F. F. Thornburg, stationed in 8 Texas with the troops, as chaplain of e the Third regiment, is expected to ar rive in the city Saturday night. Nos vember 4, or early on the following e Sunday, for a twenty-day furlough. He will leave his station November ;- first and expects to arrive here in i- time to preach the following Sunday. If the troops are sent home while he is here on his furlough, he will e of course not return to the border, f Otherwise he will remain here for r twenty days. He expects to be in Deg catur for two or three Sundays and j during that time, his congregation s will have the privilege of having him as their pastor again in reality. 3 ANNIVERSARY SERVICE 1- ... I._ An automobile party from here will t go to Bluffton this evening to attend the seventy-fifth anniversary celebration of the Bluffton Baptist churcli held all tihs week. Rev. Schnashall d of Fort Wayne will preach this evens ing. All the churches of the Sala2 monte district have been given a special invitation.

KERN IS HERE Senator John Worth Kern Arrives Here for Afternoon Speech. CROWDS LINE STREETS To Greet Indiana's Senior Senator—His Speech a Masterpiece. John Worth Kern. Indiana’s senior senator, arrived in Decatur today on | the Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad t for his speech here at two o’clock. A . crowd of five hundred enthusiastic citizens were on the streets when the train pulled in to welcome him. is Led by an automobile parade and ' the Decatur city band the parade ’• marchet! to the railroad station 11 where the senator was received with e a rousing cheer. The band, playing 8 popular airs headtKl the procession e back to the court house, where the >• senator was billed to appear at two 1. o'clock. Senator Kern was accompanied here Iby Representative Morrison of Frankfort, Ind., and came here from Peru, where he had a rousing meeting last night. At three o’clock the court room * was crowded to capacity and dozens of interested citizens crowded the corridors of the court house unable to get into the court room. Lively cheering punctuated the senator’s remarks and much enthusiasm was dis--7 played by the crowd. Hon. Dore B. Erwin of this city presided at the meeting and preceedf ing Senator Kern's speech, Hon. A. R. Rothengass of Chicago will talk for thirty minutes. Tonight Mr. Rothengass speaks at Williams school house (Continued on Page 2.) : A WRCTgASE n . _. 1 i Miranda E. Niblick, Mother of Twelve Children, Sues for Divorce. AFTER 36 YEARS i r 1 Asks for SSOO and Weekly Allowance for Support —Well Known. ’ After living with her husband for 1 nearly thirty-six years and bearing ' him twelve children, nine of whom > are living, Mrs. Miranda E. Niblick I has filed suit for divorce from Charles ' B. Niblick. She also asks SSOO alimony and a weekly sum for support. They were married March 8, 1880, I in Wells county and lived together until March 1914. Mrs. Niblick charges that for the last ten years he failed to reasonably provide for her and their family and for two years has wholly failed to do - so and that she has been obliged to do washing and housework to provide for herself and their two minor child- , ren, aged eleven and fourteen years. She charges that during their married life he has been careless and improvident and quarrelsome. Mrs. Niblick is a resident of the first ward this city. I MAY STEWART COMING TO DECATUR SATURDAY. The advance representative for May Stewart is in the city today negotiating with the management of the op- ’ era house for Miss Stewart’s appearance here Saturday night. October 28, in an elaborate production of the ’ famous comedy, “The Sculptor's Dream," by W. S. Gilbert, author of the comic operas, “Pinafore” and “Mikado." Owing to some changes in the route this night was left open. ! This will be Miss Stewart’s first appearance here, but she comes heralded as one of America’s foremost legitimate actresses of the younger class, and the theater-goers are promised a performance surpassing anything in the history of the town of 1 this kind. The agent advises that 1 the dinfensions of the stage here, " which is twenty feet deep, fifty feet 1 from wall to wall and thirty-one feet 1 in height, is ample to accommodate ■ the scenery for the production. As a i- curtain raiser, the literary people are •- tpromised four scenes from “Maci'beth.” I

WOULD YOU? Would you divorce your wife If yon saw another man kissing her hand? Don’t be hasty, now! Better »ait and see "The Perils of Divorce," 1 see how a perfectly honest and i,lncere wife was mistrusted by circumstances and divorced by her husbaad, only to find years later, after it was too late to njend the ways of the past, that she had ever been a faithful and i trustworthy wife and mother. Persons who appreciate a really mid truly interesting domestic drama, I will do well to arrange to go and s/e "The Perils of Divorce," the World Film five-part picture, which will be the feature shown on the screen at the Crystal theater tonight. TO THE GERMANS • Hon. A. A. Rothengass of Chicago is Making a Plea to Countrymen. STAND FOR WILSON Will Talk to Germans of Decatur at Club Rooms Tomorrow Afternoon. A crowd that packed the Preble school house last night listened with close attention to Hon. A. A. Rothengass, of Chicago, cheered him frequently and expressed their appreciation of his message in no uncertain tones. Mr. Rothengass is the editor of a magazine known as Uncle Sam. the National Campaign Monitor, is well educated, a student of great national and international problems, a fluent speaker in both German and English and his address last night proved that he is one of the ablest men today fighting for the reelection of the president. Until a few weeks ago he was opposed to Mr. Wilsnn but at he puts it ‘he saw the light,” and is now stronger for him than he ever was against him. At last nights meeting John Hoffman. the committeeman presided and the meeting was declared the best ever held at that place. For an hour and a half Mr. Rothengass discussed the political issues, dwelling for the most part on t ifp great international! questions and explaining them thoroughly. He spoke for the most part in German, but explained his points in English also, so that every body understood and enjoyed the meeting. Mr. Rothengass is a gentleman, every inch, a scholar and is doing a great work in the campaign. He exposes the fact that a great many of the socalled German language papers are insincere and some of them just plain “crooked” and he laughs at the idea that they are now propounding with much vigor that Roosevelt wiii be dropped by Hughes after the election. Mr. Rothengass will make a short talk at the Kern meeting here this afternoon, will speak at Williams tonight and Freidhetm tomorrov night. Special German Meeting. Arrangements have been made f< r Mr. Rothengass to talk to the Ger ; mans of Decatur at a meeting to be < held at the democratic headquarters Wednesday afternoon at 2:30. It will pay you to hear him at that time. If i you wish to post yourself on the great < questions you should hear this splen- , did young man. ATONEMENT 1 Youthful infatuation; a tragedy, the 1 result of sudden, jealous anger; lost I identity, followed by remorse and regret; tender, true love — the atoie- i ment. These are the human passions i portrayed in this intensely interesting two part drama featuring Vivian Rich and Alfred Vosburgh. A powerful attraction with majesties marine photography. Shown at the Rex ioday in conection with one of those side-splitting Keystone Comedies. TWO MEN KILLED (United )*ress Service) Omaha, Neb., Oct. 24 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Ttvo men were killed when the Union Pacific passenger train struck a freight train which had been wrecked near Bushnell Nebraska. today. n • BUSINESS MEETING TONIGHT. The regular meeting of the Decatur Merchants will be held at the library at eight o’clock this evening and the presence of every member is I | requested. |

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WANT PETTICOAT? Well, Go and Buy One— Don’t Help Swamp Minneapolis Postmaster BY SENDING DIME To National Brokerage Co.—They Have Fled— Break the Chain. Adams county and Decatur woman who are linked in a certain “dime chain petticoat” system, inaurnrated by the so called National Brokerage exchange of Minneapolis had host break the chain at once. Send no more dimes. Hundreds of the letters, promising a ’’54.75 1916 model petticoat" on receipt of ten cents in silver and the names and addresses of five friends to whom the letter is sent, have been sent out. Wondering just how a concern could send out so many petticoats; for so little money not knowing of anyone who had received a petticoat and who could recommend the company, and wondering whether she couul not be held liable for fraud if the five friends to whom she sent a letter over her name, promising a petticoat for a dime, failed to receive a petticoat or the return of the money one Decatur lady tried out the venture in this way: She sent her dime and the addresses of five friends to whom she "would send" a copy of the letter provided she received a petticoat and the company proved out to her that they were not a fraud. Her letter to the company was to that effect. Yesterday her letter was returned to her. marked "unclaimed” and she is congratulating herself that she at least saved the copying of five letters and postage thereon, which is more than several hundreds Adams county women can do. A Minneapolis dispatch in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette this morning tells why the letter was returned “unclaimed." Minneapolis, Oct. 23—Thousands of letters, each containing ten cents are pouring into the local postoffice daily from women in various parts of the country who have joined in an “endless chain" scheme promoted by the so-called National Brokerage exchange. Federal a'genfs searching for officers of the “exchange” who are wanted for using the mails to defraud A room in a local business block. In which all the letters are addressed was suddenly vacated three weeas ago, the authorities say. To every woman who would send ten cents in silver and write five friends urging them to join in 'he chain, the "exchange" promised a "new, 1917 model, silk petticoat.” “The volume of mail for the ‘‘exchange” is rapidly growing”, said Postmaster E. A. Purdy, and today we received 25.000 letters, enclosing twenty five thousand dimes. Thousands of the letters have been returned to the writers, but a large majority carry no return marks and as a result the dead letter office is becoming clogged. The other mail channels of the local office are choked daily by the influx of mail for the "exchange." It is said that many of the letters received here came from parties in Berne, who in turn had received them from the vicinity of Bluffton. O. In Bluffton. 0.. several ladies had received petticoats, but when the Minneopolis company became so swamped with “dimes" they began returning the dimes, witli the information that they had received sufficient names for advertising purposes and did not wish to continue the petticoat plan. The deluge probably swamped the company, who were probably unable to open and answer the thousands of letters and return the dimes, so they simply fled to let the government return them at its own expense, CHARGED WITH HOMICIDE (United Press Service) New York. Oct. 24— (Special to the Daily Democrat)— Gharged with homicide, Samuel Linker, and his sod Daniel were arrested today nfter the body of Mrs. Linker had been found, terribly hacked, in her home. Louis Posner, who admitted he was an admirer of the woman was held as a I witness.