Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 284, Decatur, Adams County, 29 November 1916 — Page 1

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WOULD LOCATE FACTORY HERE Dallas M. Reed Puts Proposition Upto Decatur Bus- . iness Men. ALFO PRODUCTS CO. Wonderful Future Predicted—Will Manufacture 31 Different Products. Dallas M. Reed of Detroit is here with a proposition that is from*every appearance the best for tne city of Decatur ever offered and with indications favorable toward the closing of a contract for a factory that will withina very few years become one of the biggest of its kind in the United States. Mr. Reed formerly lived here and Mrs. Reed is a native of Decatur, being a daughter of Mrs. Fullenkamp. For five years Mr. Reed has been engaged in the real estate business at Detroit and has made good, pulling off some of the biggest deals in that most prosperous city in the world. For several years he has been interested. and deeply so, in the manufacture of food products from alfalfa, which proposition was being worked out by Dr. L. B. Bailor, formerly of I.eed, South Dakota, and recently of Minneapolis. The tests have progressed until at this time thirty-one medicinal and food products have been tried out in 600 different stores with the positive decision that they i are the best, the purest, the finest on ' the market. Recently a company I was organized at Detroit with S2OO.- I 000 capital stock, fully financed and incorporated under the laws of Delaware for the purpose of manufacturing and selling these goods. This company prepared to erect a factory building in that city but the hoard of directors, after a thorough investigation, decided it would be wise to locate in a smaller city, where the labor situation and other overhead expenses would be greatly reduced and whereby they could save at least $25,000 a year. That is where Mr. and Mrs. Reed got in. They have always liked Decatur and Mrs. Reed , did not allow her husband to forget 1 that this was “home.” He presented to his board the fact that we have three good railroad lines and traction, that we are within a few miles of the center of population, that we 1 have a great and wonderful country, 1 proper facilities so far as light and 1 water are concerned and he is confident that he can land the factory for Decatur. He has been sent out to visit the several cities which are of- i sering them bonuses, but he does not < hesitate, to say that he prefers this f city to any of them. He met twenty-five business men t at the city hall this morning, showed, ’ samples of Ids goods and told them s his story, truthfully and with all the . cards on the table and closed by say- j ing that if we want the factory we can get it. They will open the plant, May Ist with perhaps twenty-five or.’ fifty men, which number will be in- I ’ creased rapidly with the expectation i of employing 1,500 people or more 1 within three years. He asks free rent, tax. light and water for a period oi three years. 1 nothing more, the company being ’ fully financed. Uoon motion by E. X. Ehinger the chairman cf the meeting. Mr. John T. Myers was authoriz- ’ led to appoint a committee of seven < business men to confer with Mr. Reed and to report as soon ar possible to the public meeting to be called. The proposition certainly looks good and the possibilities are most wonderful. They manufacture breakfast foods, medicines, syruips fountain drinks substitutes for coffee, tea and tobacco and they are most wonderful requiring an expert to detect the difference of their substitutes and the real article, yet absolutely pure. The medical properties of alfalfa have long been known and the articles made by the Also Products company the name of the this concern absolutely pure, the company offering SI,OOO for any analysis that will prove otherwise. If the company succeeds as they expect it will mean the establishing of sanitariums here and various other additions that means much to Decatur and Vicinity. The officers of the Also Products company pro Dr. L. B. Bailor, Mi i-

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neapolls, president and medical director; C Frank Reed, secretary wad treasuer, Chicago; Bart H. Clinger, ‘ laed, South Dakota, vice president; , Dallas M. Reed, Detroit, general manager. Several of these men and perhaps tdl of them will move here if the factory is located. Ihe outlook for the securing of the new company looks bright at this time and we believe the proposition is deserving of the aid mid assistance of every citizen in this vicinity. Mr Myers this afternon announced the fidlowing committee to investigate the proposition and consider plans concerning the landing of the factory for Decatur:- C. J. Voglewede, Oscar Lankenau, E. X. Ehinger, Mathias Kirsch, Fred Schafer, .1 O. Sellemeyer and J. H. Heller. The committee will meet at four o’clock this afternoon. o— CUTS JAILBOAD X ilia Sending Detachment Cuts American Line of Communications. HAVE NO FORAGE Mexican Officials Admit the Fall of Chihuahua City on Monday. (United Press Service) El Paso, Nov. 29—(Special to the Daily Democrat) —By cutting tin Mexican Northwestern lines neat Guzman early today Villista bandits ! closed the channel by which forage i supplies were forwarded to General ' Pershing’s expeditionary forces, j A small band of bandits today burned several bridges on both aider of Guzman about eighty miles south west of the border, according to ; report made to United States autiii tie shere. El Paso, Nov. 29 —(Special to hi Daily Democrat) —The state of Chihuahua in Mexico today is dominated by Villa. Mexican government officials today admitted the fall of Chi huahua City on Monday. The de fenders were cut to pieces, split in to two groups and routed to Hit north and south. The gravest anxiety was express ed here over the safety of the six Americans in Chihuahua City. Var ried reports were received, one say ing that all foreigners had beer slaughtered, and another that Ville had conducted them to the outskirts of the eity and started them for Hit border. According to reports received by United States officials Villa rushes into the city at five o’clock on Mon day and in a short hand to hand struggle scattered the defender? The ammunition of the Carranzf troops was exhausted. General Tre vino fled with 700 men toward the south. (By Carl. D. Graot) Washington. Nov. 29 —(Special re Daily Democrat) —Indications of G°r manys guilt in the Marina torpedoe ing coupled with the sinking of the American steamer Chemung served today to cause uneasiness over Ger man-American relations. Germany was believed to be paving the way to admitting guilt in the torpedoebig of the Marina with the loss of six Americans. Authorities believe »hi intends to seek settlement of the cases through reparation and offers of indemnity. If the administration follows its words of the past weak this will he insufficient. o PINCH THE MAYOR lUnfted Press Service) Vincennes, tnd„ Nov. 29 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Mayor James M. House of Vincennes was arres’ed today on a warrant issued by prose cutor Joseph W. Kimmell charging him with “oppression, maffeasance and malconduct.” House plead not guilty when araigned in court and was released on SI,OOO bond. Kimmel charges that the mayor stilled competition in the letting of paving contracts and that he was guilty ot granting permission to certain persons to operate immoral resorts. o —-— — ATTENTION, RED MEN! Thursday at 7:30 p. m. council brand will be lighted on chief degree ; and officers nominated for ensuing • six and twelve moons; also council fire relighted on adoption and degree I conferred. A large attendance of . (chiefs and brothers requested.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening, November 29, 1916,

GRIND IS ENDED Grand Jury Returned Thirteen Indictments—Examine 109 Witnesses. COMMEND CUSTODIANS Os Jail and County Infirm* , ary—Suggest Improvements in Buildings. The grand jury finished its November session at 4:15 o’clock yesterday afternoon. Through its foreman, Jacob Buhler, it made report to the court. The grand jury was In session seven days; examined one hundred nine witnesses and returned thirteen idictments. The members visited the county jail and county infirmary and found them kept neat and clean and in a condition conductive to the comfort of the inmates, for which Sheriff and Mrs. Ed Green and County Infirmary Superintendent and M"s. Martin Laughlin are commended. They recommend that a padded cell be supplied at the jail and that a bath and toilet be installed in the woman’s department. The windows at the county infirmary they suggest, should be repaired and tightened to keep out the cold and that the heating system be repaired, as conductive to the comfort and health of the inmates and to the saving of fuel and labor.

TO LEAVE SOON Third Indiana Regiment Will Leave Border Next Monday, December 4 FOR HOME TRIP Doubtful Whether They Will be Home for Christmas—Write for Jobs. Rev. F. F. Thornburg, who left here Monday to join the Third regiment at Llano Grande, after a thirty days’ furlough will probably leave there December 4. An article in the Porland Commercial Review says "Announcement was made Monday afternoon from the army headquarters that the Third Indiana infantry, jf which the local company is a unit, will leave the border for home Deember 4. Thos does not mean, however, that the boys will be home in a lew days. Indeed, it is doubtial whether they will be home for Christ mas. The trip from the border to Fort Benjamin Harrison at Indianapolis will take five days and the muster- , ing our process in which all army ( ‘quipment must be checked in to the satisfaction of the army officials will consume, it is thought, at least two weeks and probably more. The HooMer Guard, printed at the ’ border says: Indiana business houses are being flooded this week by applications for work from members of the Third re- , giment, which has been ordered home. Many of the men had good jobs before the call of the president i and were forced to give them up. 1 Many employers, believeing the bor 1 der service would last only a month • or two, held jobs open for a short time but in the end most of the men j lost out and with the prospects of be- . ing home for Christmas now mighty . bright they are all anxious to get ( back in the harness the first of the year. Telegrams galore and letters by • the score have gone out from the • Third asking their old employers or 1 other business men to give them sit- ‘ nations. Not a few officers of the Third, several of them being among the best j known in the regiment have asked the adjutant general for transfers to _ some other regiment which is remaining here and it is thought that a large number of men will do 1 the same thing, although the propor- 1 lions of those remaining probably, J will not be large. 1

TURKEYS AT FIVE CENTS (United Press Service) Pittsburg, Penna., Nov. 29 (Special to Daily Democrat) Live turkeys sold at five cents a pound here today under a boycott started by ’lie Pittslairg housewives, Dealers who had purchased thousands of turk-ys at high prices were unable to sell them because of the boycott. Panic seized the speculators today and they threw stock to the mercy <.f bidders. Al three cents a pound there was a rush of buyers and the price was swiftly shoved to five cents. o QUARANTINE STOCK (United Press Service) Indianapolis, Nov. 29 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —A| proclamation was issued by Governor Ralston today on the advice of state veterinarian Nelson, barring all cattle, hides, hay and straw coming from Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri to Indiana on account of the danger of the hoof and mouth disease. the court news Judgments Rendered—Two Claims Allowed in the Beinz Estate. MARRIAGE LICENSE Clerk’s Office Will be Open Several Hours Thanksgiving Morning. County Clerk Hammell announces that the clerk’s office will be open from 7:30 until 10:00 a. m. on Thanks giving day. Those who desire marriage licenses or have any other official business with the clerk, should take notice.

Real estate transfers: C. C. Ward, trustee to Henry Hite, lot 348, Decatur, $3,000; John W. Merriman to • J. H. Tumbleson. 40 acres of Blue Creek township, $8,000: J. K. Tumbleson to Marie Bnltemeier, east half of lot 737 Decatur, $1,000; Marie Billtemeier to Amanda Tumbleson, lot 737 Decatur $1,000; Iva A. Winans to F. R. Hager, lot 47 Decatur, $950. The claim of Magdalena A. Bienz for S2OO, and that of Martin G. Bienz | for $250 against the Magdela Bienz . estate were allowed. Peterson & Mb- ' ran appeared for the claimants and R. C. Parrish for the estate. State of Indiana Ex Rel. Fred W. Busche vs. Peter Forbing et al. Appearance by Heller for all defendants. The case of The Western Reserve Life Insurance Company vs. Floyd Buckmaster was dismissed and costs paid. The People’s State Bank vs. Henry W. E. Dirkson and Henry Gallmeyer. Judgment for $788.13 was rendered against the defendants. Gallmeyer was found to be surety. In the case of Julius Haugk vs. James N. Fristoe, judgment for S9O on the verdict of the jury was rendered against the defendant. Ruth E. Hirschy was granted a divorce from William Hirschy, given the custody of the child, James Byron, and prohibited from remarrying for two years. The case of the State ex Rel. Jesse Steele vs. Adam C. Butcher was set for December 12. The case of William Smith vs. Fred Scherer, jr„ was sent to the Wells circuit court on change of venue, ten days being given to perfect the change. A judgment of $1,228.63 for The People’s State Bank was rendered against Henry Gallmeyer and Henry W. E. Dirkson. Dirkson was found to be surety. Marriage licenses were issued to Sidney Orville Thompson, of Buffalo, N. Y., born November 28. 1879, gunnery sergeant of the U. S. marine corps, son of William J. Thompson, to wed Cecile Crist, teacher of Pleasant Mills, born December 10. 1879, ' daughter of Alfred Crist; also to William Grogg, farmer of Jay county, born May 14. 1896. and Donna Davison. born November 5, 1897. 1 Licensed to Marry; Harvey Shell, i farmer, born May 6, 1894, son of Albert Shell, to wed Edith Bentz, born November 13, 1895, daughter of Joseph Ben tit.

THANK_SERVICE The Annual Thanksgiving Morning Service Will be at Baptist Church. THE REV. J. H. MAVITY Os Christian Church Will Deliver Sermon—Special Song Service. Thanksgiving day festivities always center around the morning thank service, and this year the annual union Thanksgiving praise service will be held at the Baptist church at ten o’clock Thursday morning. Rev. J. H. Mavity of the Christian church will deliver a sermon, appropriate to the occasion and the choir will have special music. The order of service follows: Doxology. Invocation. Hymn. Scripture lesson—T. H. Harman. Prayer—J. H. Rilling. Hymn. Offering. Special music—Choir. Sermon—J. H. Mavity. Prayer. Hymn. Benediction. The offering will be divided among tlio churches for local charity.

ARE KNOWN HERE Wedding of Virginia Olds i and Harry Hogan in Fort Wayne Yesterday OF INTEREST HERE r Bride Had Dancing Class Here—Groom is Well Known Attorney. The interest of many of Decatur friends centers in the wedding of Miss Virginia S. Olds and Mr. Henry G. Hogan solemnized yesterday afternoon at 2:30 at the Olds mansion on West Beery street, Fort Wayne, the home of the bride’s grandmother, Mrs. Henry G. Olds. Miss Olds was in charge of the dancing class at the Masonic hall of this city last winter. Mr. Hogan is an attorney well known here to the bar. Rev. John R. Quinlan, rector of the Cathedral of the Immacurate conception, officiated. The wedding was pretty in every detail, but was not as large and elaborate ;y<>it as first planned, on account of a recent bereavement in the bride’s family. After a description in detail, the i Journal-Gazette says: Mr. and Mrs. Hogan left during the day for New York and from there will sail -for Havana, Cuba, to spend their honeymoon. Upon their re- < turn they will go to housekeeping in an apartment in the St. James, 1 which is ready for their occupant-z. ! The marriage unites two prominent young society p.eople. the groom, the ' elder son of Mr. Hugh T. Hogan, 1 having made a name for himself in 1 the legal world among the younger ' attorneys of the city. Both bride 1 and groom are widely known and ‘ universally adn\’ed. TR! KAPPA BALL TONIGHT. i - 1 < The Parker colored orchestra of Co- ( lumbus, Ohio, will arrive this after- ( noon for the Tri Kappa ball this ev- A ening at the Masonic hall. The decorations have already been placed and the setting is very beautiful, carrying out the Hawaiian idea, in harmony with the Hawaiian music and f dances which will be in order to- ‘ night. Tropical foliage and flowers, * with a thatched hut as a background, ■ prevail. The grand march will open ' the ball at 8:30 o'clock. Many from out of town will be here for the ball, among them being Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bell, Bluffton; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Detamore, Portland, Miss Isabelle Weeks, Geneva; Miss Helen Aurentz, Fort Wayne. '

“THE GILDED SPIDER” Ixive and Jealousy, hatred anil vengeance, excitement and sensations and an altogether clever moving picture entertainment Is promised in the Bluebird Photoplay, “The Glided Spider,” which Is to be the attraction at the Crystal theater tonight with beautiful Ixntlse lively fie star. The fountains of sensationalism have been drawn upon for new methods to quicken the intern it; Miring scenes follow in quick succcs Bion; there is a thrill and a throb, in every moment entertaining photoplay there is an engaging love story ito fire th eimagination and doubt the interest. Louise Lovely, favori ite of a million theatergoers, has a s*ole that multiplies her sweetness and sets her loveliness In new frame of fascination. SPOTLESS TOWN Will be Framingham, Mass. —A Commnity Health Demonstration. WILL BE MADE By National Organization for Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. Framingham. Mass., will be made the Spotless Town of the United States, if the SIOO,OOO that the Na-1 tional Association for the Study and I Prevention of Tuberculosis is to spend there in a community health demon-! , Btration during the next three years] can make it so. Out of several hun-1 dred towns, it has just been selected . by a special committee for a community health demonstration that will seek to show that tuberculosis can bo controlled as well as other infectious diseases, if the right methods are employed. The fund for conducting the demonstration has been doi nated to the National Association by the Metropolitan Life Insurance company. The demonstration will be started at once under the direction of Dr. i Donald B. Armstrong, assistant secre- 1 tary of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of tuberculosist. The committee which will have control of the work consists of Dr. Edward R. Baldwin, Saranac * Lake, president of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis; Dr. Lee K. Frankel. I sixth vice president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance company, New York; Dr. William Charles White, medical director of the Pittsburgh Tubreculosis League; Dr. Arthur K. Stone, president of the Massachusetts Trustees of Hospitals for Con-1 sumptives, Boston; Dr. Stephen J. Maher, chairman of the Connecticut State Tuberculosis commission. New Haven; Mr. Homer Folks, secretary of the New York State Charities Aid association, and Dr. Charles J. Hat- ; field, executive secretary of the National Assaciation for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, New York. In addition to the money which the . committee will spend in Framiitgham, that city has agreed to co-operate by improving its public health work and by offering certain special facilities j for work under the direction of the committee. The leading citizens of> Framingham, as well as the state do . partment of health. Harvard univer-1 eity, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and other schools, have I offered their help in the demonstra I tion. As part of the plan, it is proposed to place under definite control every living case of tuberculosis, both those that are demonstrably so and those that are suspected of having had contact with the disease. As a result of this demonstration, it is planned later to use the experience in Framingham in other cities of the t utted States, to siiow that tuberculosis can be controlled any where. o TO GIVE PENNY SUPPER The December section of the Evangelical Ladies' Aid society announces a fine penny supper for Saturday evening, at the old laundry building. A fine menu will be provided, each item of which will cost a penny. _ FATHER IS ILL. Mrs. Ben Devor and children left this afternoon for Greenville, Ohio, where she was called by the illness of her father, John Wilson, who is quite ill.

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RULES FOR SHOW Rules for Conduct of the Adams County Corn Show Are Issued. EVERY SCHOOL HOUSE is to be Receiving Station —Packages Must be Wrapped. The rules for the conduct of the Adams County Corn Show warn made public this morning, and at the same time the organizaiton of the districts was determined. Every school in the county is a station ait.l students are to bring their ten ears of corn to their school house, wrapped with their name and address both inside and outside the package, their school district and township also appear on the cards. The farmers can enter tbefr corn in the same manner, but need not put on the school district. Corn will be received at every school house up until December 11th I at noon, after which no more entries ■ will be accepted. Rules Os The Adams County Show 1. All corn must be entered aad in the show room by 12 o’clock. Wednesday, December 14th. 2. No entry fee is charged. 3. An exhibitor shall be entitled to one entry of each color in h’s class and section. 4. Each exhibit must have been grown by the exhibitor in the year ! 1916, except in the Boy’s and Girl's ' division. 5. All single and ten ear exhibits 1 will first of all be classfied in the ’ township classes, the township de1 pending upon the township in which 1 the exhibitor resides. These town•’ship classes will include all corn, re- ’ gardless of color. •| 6. All exhibits remain the prop- ■ erty of the exhibitors. r [ 7. AU exhibits will be judged ac« ‘ cording to the Standard of Perfcc- | tion and the Score Card of the Indi- , ana Corn Growers’ Association. | 8. For the purpose of determining i size, shape and vitality of the kernels of an ear, two kernels, side by side, may be removed from the middle portion of the ears. I 9. No exhibits can be removeed from the show room until 12:00 Saturday, December 16th. | 10. Premiums will be paid on the prize winning exhibits as it is removed from the show room. 11. The authorities of the show will not be held resnonsible for any corn left in the show room ast n r 5;30 p. m., Saturday, December 16th. | 12. The executive Committee of the Adams County Agricultural Extension Association reserves th« right *o make such other rules as may be deemed necessary and to make any changes necessitated in the program. I o REVIVAL SERVICES. Revical services at the Church of God closed last Sunday evening, the I house being well filled with eager hearefsj Good order prevailed throughout the meeting. A goodly number were converted during the j series. We considered this revival the most successful of any previot’s,ly held by the Church of God here j since the new building has be-n ' erected. The text Sunday evening was II Cor. 4:3, making plain the possible deliverance from sin and ’ grace from God. to live a godly lite. We extend a cordial invitation to everyone to attend the regular services. An interesting service was held for the benefit and edification of the young people, also. Sunday evening at 6:00 p. m. Rev. P. W. Botts is an able evangelist, who expects tn conduct his next revival at Portland, meeting Wednesday evening nt 7:30; Sabbath school, 9:30 a. m.: preaching, 10:30; Young People's meeting, 6:00 p. m.; preaching, 7:00 p. m. I). M. LYONS. Pastor in Charge. GIVES G66D TALK' "Don't Die on the Third Base” was the subject of the fine and helpful talk of the Rev. J. H. Mavity to the high school this morning, during the half hour devoted to a special service, in which he told of the helpfulness of keeping the goal in view at all times and lending all efforts in the strife to reaching that point. This afternoon, school dismissed for the re- », mainder of the week.