Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 283, Decatur, Adams County, 28 November 1916 — Page 1

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DECATUR’S EGGS Are Making Eastern Storage Men Money—Bought in June for Low Price. — WERE SOLI) OFTEN And Are Now Bringing Twice Original Costs— Decatur Eggs Famous. KDccntur has again I,eon placed on Blhe national map. This time it is ■Ms,“egged" on. A Washington dispat it K “ y 8 K Eggs purchased in Indiana at 2-»*. ; Cents a dozen in June sold in New If Tori, al 43 cents a dozen on Novi-m-I Kbr 18. according to testimony dev.-l-<«ji>pe.l today by the Wicks legislative / Committee investigating the .lice of |ffi|jj|i»dstuffs in this* state. Some oft lljllies. eggs are still in storage here. t-T after having been sold repeatedly ;.t advancing rates, and an invoice infetrodneed in the evidence today shoving that in one of these transactions the eggs were represented ns fr< sh. >1 was declared by a witness to have fl, been erroneously marked. Throughout the examination of ■ many witnesses a carload of eggs - Was traced from its June sale in D>ipj - . Catm Ind., to sales of its contents Ito New York consumers. The wholesaler, who said ho Itought them for 24tA cents, testified that after putting them in storage he sold tlrnn to a Brooklyn jobber for 25’4 cents find re; uri based them on September ! 8, the market having advanced, for 29 cents, and resold them within an hour for 30 cents. This wholesaler testified ho again . reruri-hased .hem and again resold . them, and testimony showed that the now buyer disposed of them at 82: certs to jobbers, who in turn sold them to grocers, who passed them on to consumers. Witnesses denied , - these constant resales were the -?• /i® suit of an agreement among deal?-s to raise prices. George Erb nberger. an egg dea’er, testified that some of the Decatur eggs, which he purchased Novem- £ ' her 15 at 34 cents, and which now are in storage, are worth more than 50 cents a dozen. He said he sold three cases to a fashionable hotel at 43 cents a dozen. He asserted that strictly fresh eggs today would cost probably 73 cents. Witnesses testified that eggs now in storage are being held in anticipation of the March market and are insured to January 1. National Boycott On Eggs Is Urged New York, Nov. 27 —Steps for a ( statewide egg boycott with the ( weight of official sanction from the mayors of cities were taken today, it was announced here by Joseph . Hartigan, commissioner of weights and measurers, and seci'.etary of Mayor Michaeli’s committee on food supply. Mr. Hartigan said that Mayor C. F. Burns, of Troy, N. Y., president of the conference of mayors of cities of New York state, advised him by telephone that he was about ( to call upon the mayor of every city in the state to "issue a proclamation to the people urging them not to us: eggs for two weeks, except for thf aged, infirm, sick and children. “The boycott is the only method by which we can smash the power el i' the special interests which are understood to control the egg market, Mayor Burns believes, ’’ Mr. Hartigan said. “The program he proposes is that each commodity in turn shall receive the same treatment and that in the public interest, the mayors will agitate the same proposition with regard to each article. In <l- - elsewhere the boycott is being adopted with official sanction." He said motion picture Interests have volunteered to help the boycott campaign by flashing slides in their theaters informing the public what to do from time to time. o —— FORD TURNS OVER. Tom Griffith, driving a new Ford car, in making a turn on the Peterson road, as you start in for Monroe street, at seven o'clock this morning, tipped over. Three women and two children in the car were badly shaken up. Sadie and Nellie Barger, and a Barger boy and the son of Mr. Griffith were in the car. Mrs. Barger was severely jolted. One can of cream was also lost. The car had a front wheel smashed, the windshield and top demolished. He came in under his own power after he got a new wheel.

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WANT REGULATION (Unltod PreHM Service) By George Martin.) New York, Nov. 28 (Special to Dally Democrat) —Formal appeal for government regulation of the countrys food supply was forwarded to President Wilson by representatives of two million women of the nations housewives league. The housewives resolution bases its appeal on the assertion that the people of the United States are suffering from exorbitant prices due to the shortage of crons, increased exports, decrease of imports and speculation.” The league urges the government to “determine the food supply needed by the people of the United States and tolimit sales for export to the surplus over domestic requirements.” TAKES THE CITY \ ilia, With Four Thousand Followers, Has Taken Chihuahua City. IS AUTHENTIC REPORT Through U. S. Government Agents’ Reports—Americans to Die. El Paso, Tex.. Nov. 28— (Special to Daily Democrat) —Villa is in possession of Chihuahua City and the Carranza garrison has evacuated and fled southward in an attempt to join a relief column of government troops, according to reports obtained today by United States authorities and transmitted to Washington. Mexican officials here refuse to make any statements excepting to say that they have no information and complete confirmation of the capture of the city is unavailable. If VillA has really taken Chihuahua City, as reported, government officials declre the fate of all Americans there is hopeless. Washington, Nov. 28—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The situation at Chihuahua City where Carranza and Villiastas are battling is considered such that it probably will halt present plans for returning several more militia regiments to their homes it was learned from official war depavtment sources today. The department had expected to send two oi three more regiments back home this week.

El Paso, Nov. 2S—(Special to the Daily Democrat) —Without definite news in three days of the seige ami battle for possession of Chihuahua City the conviction grew today that the city may have been captured by Villa. Unless the Caranza army is now fleeing the Villistas are still beseiging the city on all sides. Many messages have been "received which Carranza authorities claim were forgeries saying that the city has fallen. A message signed by General Trevino stated that he had evacuated the city, but Mexican officials declared that this was a forgery. —o BRAKEMAN KILLS BANDIT (Unired Press Service) Delphos. Ohio. Nov. 28—(Special to Daily Democrat)—A man believed to be Harry Bill of Marion Indiana was shot and killed here last night when he attempted to hold up E. C McEwen, a Clover Leaf brakeman. Bell searched his victim, took $7 and watch and ran. McEwen returned to tlie caboose changed clothes got a gun and finding Bell shot him dead. McEwen lives at Frankfort. > FINE FEATHERS. The dramatic triumph of the century at the Bosse opera house next Friday, December 1. The most powerful and stirring dramatic play ever written, depicting real life as it is today. This is one of Walter’s best plays, forcible and sincere, and has the universal approval of press and public, and is considered by critics the greatest. American play ever written. This play ran six months at the Astor theater, New York, and received wonderful praise. Secure your seats early for this master production, elevating and instructive. Several automobile loads of the i Knights of Pythias went to Bluffton 'at noon today to be present at all of the sessions of tlie big district meeting which is being held there today. An additional delegation will leave the home at five thirty o'clock tonight for the same place.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, November 28, 1916.

GIRL IS STRUCK Nellie Hitchcock Knocked Down hy Runabout While Crossing Street. SLIGHTLY INJURED Ten Year Old Daughter of Wm. Hitchcock Did Not Look in Crossing. Nellie Hitchcock, aged ten, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Hitchcock, of First street, fourth grade student of the North Ward, was knocked down on North Fifth street and run over by an auto runabout yesterday afternoon just as school was being dismissed for tlie day. A wheel of the automobile passed over the child's left leg, between the ankle and knee, bruising her. but. not breaking any bones. A large skinned and bruised spot on right forearm and scratches extending the length of her arm and hand; with bruises on her left hand comprise tlie extent of her Injuries, which are light, compared with serious results that were expected by those who witnessed the accident. Her neck is also somewhat stig. On account c.f the bad weather she will not attend school this week, but she is able to be up and around in the house, little the worse for the shock. The child, on leaving the school grounds had noticed her sister acres the street and attempted to run across. She says that she did not stop to look for any vehicles and the first she saw of the auto, was when it was but a few feet away, too late for her to stop. It is said the automobile was driven by an old gentleman engaged in buying timber for the Bluffton Hoop Mill. A call tc that office this morning brought thf word that they knew nothing about it. but would ask their several buy ers on their return today, about the affair. The city truck in charge of Parent and Keller, electricians, brought the little girl to her home, with word that the old gentleman had advised them to have her taken care of. and a physician employed. WILL MEET HERE Discuss Legislation Wanted —Adams County Citizens Invited to Attend. SATURDAY, DEC. 9TH Meeting Called by Mr. Jas. Steele After Conferring With Many Citizens. Are you interested in the legislation that will come up before the Indiana legislature which convenes in January? If you are you will want to attend a meeting called today bv Mr. James Steele of Kirkland township, to be held in the rooms over the Daily Democrat Saturday, December 9th. This is in no sense a political meeting, but a meeting of famers, business men and citizens in general to discuss various measures that will probably come up before the next legislature and thus give the representatives an idea of what is wanted by the people of this co inty. A number of farmers are particularly interested in the ditch and road laws as well as in others, business men have their laws and these will be given an opportunity to state tflem. An invitation will be extended to J. W. Walker, the representa-tive-elect, and Abram Simmons, sen-ator-elect for this district, to attend. Remember the date. Everybody invited to attend. COMMITTEE. MR. HUGHES TQ PRATICE LAW Lakewood, N J„ Nov. 27—Charles E. Hughes announced here tonight that on January 1 he would resume the practice of law as a member of the New’ York law firm of Rounds, Schurman & Dwight. 96 Broadway. His son, Charles E. Hughes Jr., also will enter the firm. In 190 G, when, Mr. Hughes was nominated for governor of New York he was a member of the same law firm. Its new name will be Hughes Rounds, Schurman & Dwight.

J SON WAS INJURED. k Mre. George Deen Called to Fc-' Wayne. ■ Mrs/ George Dean left this mo-n ing for Fort Wayne in response lword that her son. Hobnrd, nget' twenty, employed in Fort Way.nt since last May, was taken to a hos pltal on account of the fracture < I a leg. Telephone connection wat ) severed before she learned whirl hospital and the full nature of t’u I accident. He was employed by ace ment worker and often engaged it driving a team for the man. Mrs. Dean returned on the 2:3( car. She found that her son was in jured a week ago and that tlie liga i-jmenta of the leg were torn when he i- fell over a pipe while carrying n e hod. He will be able to be out in n s few weeks. He is at the Hope hott pltal. t — , LIBRARY TO CLOSE The public library will be close,! I all day Thursday on account, of i" Thanksgiving. t o SIX ROBBERIES 1 1 “ 1 '■ Six Places of Business Rob3 bed at Pennville During 0 Last Night. f j > GILLIOM LUMBER CO. p ,i Safe Blown and Checks and Cash of $144 Were Taken—No Clues. p n 0 Six business places were robbed in \ * Pennville last night, the majority ol which were safeblowing jobs, thf IT o Gilliom Lumber company of Berm e had a safe cracked and $144 It: ti checks and money taken, and the es r-'cape of the robbers is the crimitn e record in the higher realms ol ' thugdom last night. t At Pennville the safe in tlie Bet e Hive department store was shot, the d Ed McConnell store safe was alsc 1 wrecked the robbers securing $lO in J currency at both places. Tlie Arnold and Engeler elevator safe was blown the thugs receiving fifty cents here. The Pennville Milling Com- , pany safe was opened but nothing I was in it. The Mrs. John Carey grocery store was robbed, canned goods and groceries worth quite a I little being taken and finally the | thugs entered the Ireland garage stole a Ford and escaped. At Berne the shot was heard by Mr. Gillom, head of the Lumber company, but when he reached the office the thugs had made their escape. They got $144 in checks and money here. It is the belief of police officials that the same gang did *h” jobs at Pennville and at Berne. TO HER CHILDREN Is Given Estate by Mrs. Catherine Closs in Her Will probated Today. TO GRANDCHILDREN Each One Hundred Dollars —Jas. K. Niblick Qualities as Administrator. After specifying that S2OO be us- . ed for the erection of a tombstone and SSO to go to Father Seimetz for masses for the repose of Iter soul, . Mrs. Catherine Closs gives her es- . tate to her two children. To her daughter, Mary Closs, she gives all personal property, includ- . ing the household goods. To her daughter and to her son, Jacob Closs she gives each one-half of the real estate. The son, however, is to pay i to her grand-children, Arthur, Vivian John and Joseph C. Closs, each the i sum of SIOO from the proceeds of ■ the estate. , She asks that C. S. Niblick serve as executor. > The will was written May 25, 1916 and was witnessed by Stephen Cali lahan and Catherine Closs. t I Mr. Niblick declined to serve as r executor and James K. Niblick qualii fied as administrator with the will annexed.

.. INTO THE_WOODS ' Heavy Cadillac With Tom Vail Driver, Skids Into IP s- Woods Today. r IS h DAN FALK INJURED ie n The Car Caught Fire—Tree Stopped Impetus—Not Materially Damaged. e a Crashing through the fence and a stopping abruptly before a mum- !- mouth tree, Tom Vail, driving a I large Cadillac car, experienced tlie i thrills of his first smash up at se/en o'clock this morning. The accident ,1 happened one mile south of Decatur, ,f at the Trout woods, was caused by a I hurst tire, and was unavoidable. Vail, with several companions was I returning from Indianapolis wh ire k they had visited friends over Sun- | day. Vail was driving and as they j were passing the woods a tire burst ' causing the heavy ear to skid across " the muddy road and through the I fence. The car stopped when it bit i the tree. One fender and bum) t of the car was damaged. Daniil | Falk, one of his companions was 1 thrown against the top of the car and got two bad gashes across the I head. None of the others were injured. I In attempting to pull the car out of its predicament under jts own power it caught fire. The fire was evtinguisbed without material damage. Kalver and Noble sent a truck out to bring in the party. n ° “SALLY IN OUR ALLEY” 11' |P Carlyle Blackwell, the popular prince of popularity .whose magnificent work in such features as “The n Clarion.” “The Shadow of Doubt". - and "His Brothers Wife,’’ has endeared him to all photoplay fans, will ’f be the featured attraction at the I Crystal theater tonight, when he e will play the leading role in “Sally e In Ottd Alley,” a strong and fascin- ° at ing five part World Film Featiire. II which is the attraction to be shown <1 on the screen of this popular theater 11 today. ELECT OFFICERS ;i Odd Fellows Elect Fine Bunch of Officers for Six Months’ Term. J GO TO HUNTINGTON 1 — December 6 to Attend Big District Meeting to be Held There. With the election of officers for a six months’ term and tentative plans for the formation of a new degree staff, the Odd Fellows held one of their most important meetings of the year last night. A large gathering of the members was there to do the business in hand. Plans for a delegation to go to Huntington on Wednesday, December 6th, to a big district meeting were made, and several auto loads of local Odd Fellows will go there to attend that meeting. Tlie election of officers resulted in tlie selection of teh following: Noble Grand —Olen Baker. Vice Grand —Owen Davis. Recording Secretary—Amos Yoder. Financial Secretary —Ed S. Christen. Treasurer —J. S. McCrory. Trustee —Murray J. Scherer. PROMPTLY AT SEVEN . All members of Mrs. Downs class I of the M. E. church are requested to ■ be at the church at promptly seven , o’clock this evening. They should . also bring with them some “eats” and remain fdr the Epworth league supper. Please be there at prompt , seven. BUSINESS MEN TONIGHT The Decatur Merchants Association will liold their regular meeting t at the library at eight o'clock this - evening and all members are urged I to be present as important matters will be discussed.

NO PAPER ON THURSDAY On account of Thanksgiving Day the regular evening edition of the Daily Democrat will not be publlsh--1 ed that day. The morning edition will be published as usual and this being weekly edition of the paper will contain the legal notices as required under the law. I DAUGHTER IS BORN~ Isabelle Gwendolyn is the name of > the girl baby born Sunday to Mr. and Mrs. Dan Hill of Ninth street. Both mother and babe are getting along well. The mother, who was formerly Miss Germain Kurt, ,s a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey 1 Kurt. UNDER A CLOUD t ' - Rev. J. A. Sprague, Former Monroe Methodist Minister, Resigns r FROM KOKOMO CHARGE » Is Accused of Misconduct i With a Teacher in the Schools of Kokomo. ReV. James A Sprague, former pastor of the Methodist church at Monroe, one of the most able ministers ! of the North Indiana conference, has . resigned under a cloud from ;'ie t Methodist church at Kokomo. A Kokomo dispatch to tlie Indianapolis Star says 'The Rev. James A. Sprague, for r seven years pastor of the Main street M. E. church and one of the most popular ministers in Kokomo, has surrendered his parchments and I withdrawn from the church, it be ? came known today when, with fits family, he departed for Jacksonville. Fla. to engage in the real estate business. His resignation followed the discovery of alleged misconduct with a teacher in the Markland avenue public school. The minister is' forty-five years old and has a wife and seventeen-year-old daughter. “Accusers of the minister dedal e that when confronted by C. V. Hayworth, superintendent of schools, lie admitted, misconduct, and made similar' admissions before B. S. Hollopeter or Kokomo, district superintendent, and other officials of the church. Bishop Thomas F. Nichol-' son of Chicago, who had come here to take part in homecoming services, occupied the pulpit in the church yesterday, and no explanation of the pastor's absence was made at that time. "Charges against tlie Rev. Mr. Sprague became public on la it. Thursday night, when Hayworth, who is said to have suspected the minister and teadier, followed anil I confronted them. Hayworth is said I to have taken the minister before | District. Superintendent Hollopet'T, and the Rev. 1). H. Guild, pastor of the First, church of Fort Wayne, who was preaching that night in homecoming services in Sprague’s church. Sprague, it was said, agreed then to resign. "Superintendent Hollopeter lias arranged with the Rev. W. D. Parr of, this city to serve in the Main street church until another pastor can he obtained. "The Rev. M. Sprague, througho it his career in Kokomo, lias been a most active worker in all civic improvements, particularly in opposition to the saloons and “blind tigers” and his enforced resignation shocked the entire city!” COUNTY BOARD MEETS The county board of education will hald a meeting Friday afternoon with the trustees of the various townships to discuss the proposed law for the reorganization of the public schools of the state and whether or not the trustees should attend the state meeting of trustees at IndianaiMilis next month. o T. A. COLEMAN HERE T. A. Coleman, of Purdue University, state leader for the county agents, was in the city this morning on official business pertaining to the experiment work beng carried on here. He spent the morning with Mr. M. H. Overton who is supervising the local work.

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MADE To Mothers—Their Help is Enlisted in Building for the Children. A FIRM FOUNDATION In Temperance Cause——Loyal Legion Needs Aid of Mothers. I (By E. Willard) Best Beloved of Huniu;; Hearts: I Evermore have you been held hy I me in most worshipful sanctity as patron saints of the dearest temple on this earth—the home. In you I have . beheld my own blessed mother, and her face has mirrored every other true mother's face to me. Nor would ) here or elsewhere think that 1 had a right to come to you with loving exhortation did I not know that I, too, have a mother-heart —one that has always loved, cherished and ached foil that most winsome and most wayward of all children gone astray—Hu- ; manity. Let us then come to you with trust and tenderness, here in the fair pages of my dear Anna Gordon's choice book about the juvenile temperance work and may God's spirit help me to lay that wonderful book upon your hearts. For 1 have learned in these thirteen years of constant journeyings, iu 3 which the obstacles to its success s have become known to me in a thou- , sand different towns and cities, that chief among them all is the indifference of mothers, and next, the iculty of getting grown people to conduct the juvenile society. Not in a single instance has it been reported 1 that "The children didn't want a sot ciety, and wouldn't come." The lit--8 tie enthusiasts were always ready—l mean as a class —and when the society suspended, as it often did, for the two reasons just given, they would s stop the temperance ladies on the . street and say. “When wiii the Loyal 1 Legion begin again?” I But let me show you how themotht er's indifference has blocked our progress, and I will quote just what ; mothers have said until their words ■ have passed into uncanny proverbs among our workers: “I cannot take . my boy from play; he has so little recreation;” “1 can tell Johnny that . he shall go, and then he will, but he likes to be outdoors, and forgets the time of meeting, and I cannot undertake to tell him;" “My child belongs .to so many societies already that I I hardly ever see him, and 1 want him i all to myself once in a while;" "I am I so busy that I really can’t remember when this meeting comes." 'I Now. dear mother, it seems to me that for all these excuses there is one explanation, and you don’t know how pitiful that explanation is: A lack of interest in the temperance training of the little one, founded upon a failure to appreciate the relation of that training to the child's J character and usefulness in future j life. 1 never allow myself to believe I that any mother is really careless about the best interests of those who are her nearest and her dearest. But she lacks “the arrest of thought;” she has not appreciated at its true value the systematic drill that would have fortified her children against temptation and made them practical workers in philanthropy from the out- ' set of their lives. if she can but perceive and feel the truth about this training, she will henceforth count the gospel temperance education of her little ones second to nothing except her own religious teaching in the home. She will see that whoever takes the pains to teach them that the body is the Temple of God's spirit, and that pure habits are the basis of a pure religion, is the best friend they have next, to their parents; that a “Thus saith Nature, thus saith Reason" and “Thus saith tlie Lord," for total abstinence from alcoholic liquor, tobacco and ‘ profanity, drilled into the forming brain of childhood and hidden in its 1 plastic heart, means Christian manI hood and womanhood, and Christian ! citizenship, too, when childhood is outgrown. It is a fact of statistics that of every one hundred men who reform - from drinking habts, ninety return to those habits again, while of every . one hundred boys and girls who sign . the pledge ninety remain true to it through life. It is also a fact that two-thirds of the Band of Hope children stand in front rank at school (Continued on Page X.)