Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 291, Decatur, Adams County, 8 December 1916 — Page 1

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THE CONTRACT ISJICCEPTED Also Products Co. Officially Accepts Proposition to Locate in Decatur — WITH FIRST PLANT Will Come as Soon as Machinery Can be Obtained —Will Grow Rapidly. Thp Also Products company will locate their new plant in this city, the official acceptance of the proposition made to them last week by the local business men having been formally accepted in a communication received today. The plant will open next May or Juno here and if it develops as it is believed it will, will soon be one of the largest in the country of its kind. The men back of the Also | , company have the enthusiasm anil the ability, they are financing the company with $150,000, all of which is raised in Detroit and vicinity. They are coming here clean and will make g<M)ii. The merit of alfalfa is known by every scientist in the world and the men back of this company have Worked out formulas for the manufacture of thirty-one different articles, g Watch them climb the ladder of mantifucturing success. The letter of acBS ceptance of contract follows: Detroit, Mich., Dec. 7, 1916. Mr. J. H. Heller. Secretary Decatur Business Men’s Factory Roosters' Association. Decatur. Indiana: VgK’': ® ear sir: —We have carefully gone over the agreement submitted to us M o,lr Mr. D. M. Reed, between the L . Decatur Factory Boosters’ association and the Also Products company. We f » have taken into consideration the F. advantages offered by. your city and the loyalty of your business men in co-operating with us to help make the Also Products company a great success. We therefore accept your proposition. The Also Products company will be located in or near your city and we expect to be in operation as soon as material, machinery and final arrangements can be secured. We thank your business men and citizens in general for their hearty cooperation in this matter, and you may rest assured that it is the intentipn of the officers and management to make the Also Products company the greatest food producing concern in the country. We ar*. T'.fTBP • .* n. Yours very truly, ALFO PRODUCTS COMPANY. Per C. Frank Reed. ■■ -—-— ■ o ——— CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY. * (United Press Service) Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. B—(SpecialB—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The history of the Indiana constitution telling of the amendment made or attempted and other data, will be published during. December by the legislative bureau j of information. The work consisting j of two volumes was written by Chas, j Kettleborough, legislative draftsman for the bureau, in connection with the Indiana centennial celebration. The history traces the development of the constitution from 1780 to 1916. It shows that of 450 amendments proposed to the present constitution adopted in 1851, only eight were adopted. Two attempts wre made to call constitutional conventions, one in 1859, and was overwhelmingly defeated and another in 1914 also de-, fsated. * < The books will be placed in the ( state library, in the University of Indiana, in public libraries over the state and given to the Indiana Historical society. Five hundred copies of a resume, of the work will be sold to the public. " bulletin. Hobart Dean, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Dean of Line street, this city, fatally shot himself with suicidal intent at his rooming house, 423 Pearl street, Fort Wayne at 2:45 o'clock this afternoon. He was rushed to the St. Joseph hospital, where physicians say he will die. His landlay, Mrs. Virginia Dauer, said he was despondent because he was discharged at a lumber yard at which he worked. He used a 22-caliber rifle and shot himself through the temple. He was nineteen years old.

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SANTA CLAUS CHECKS The Old Adams County Bank wl’l I mall nut the Santa Claus checks to about nine hundred members of the Landis Christmas Savings club on i Saturday. The checks should be jor reived not later than Monday by the lucky ones who have saved a portion of their earnings Santa Claus will' more than likely be a very welcomed visitor when he arrives with the checks. G. A. R. ELECTION.' The. G. A. R. will meet Saturday as- „ lernoon at 1:30 o’clock for the annual electio nos officers. All members are wanted at this meeting. wants outline » President Wilson Instructs 1 Lansing to (Jet England’s Facts on Arabia. GERMAN NOTE WEAK And Administration Expects to Get Complete Showdon on Pledges. (United Press Service) (By Carl D. Groat) Washington, Dec. B—(SpecialB—(Special to Daily Democrat)—After considering the German explanation in the Arabia case, President Wilson today instructed secretary lensing to forward an outline of the reply to England with the request that any facts the British government might have as to . the status of the ship when she was - sunk would be welcome to this government. As to the result of the in- , qttiry of agents of this government . j and on what facts England may be .. able to show will depend this governi meats formal opinion on the Arabic • matter. This will necessarily tjelay s for several days at least any chance 1 of final decisions in the matter. i The administration present inten- > tion with respect to the German sub- ■ marine situation is to get a complete ■ show-down on just how far reaching and inclusive German pledges to ' America are. Tills fact was officially 1 revealed at the state department to--1 day indicating that this government intends to engage in further —though brief —diplomatic negotiations. It became known that Great Britain formally notified secretary Lansing that the steamer Marirfx was not under British admiralty requistion or charter. Paris, Dec. B—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The French battleship Suffren is officially classified as lost in a statement issued by the minister of marine today. Apparently all were lost. The veg-; sei left Gibraltar for the Orient on ( November 24 and not been heard i from since. It carried 730 men. Ixmdon, Dec. B—(Special to Daily Democrat)—A new powerful German offensive in Macedonia was forcust I 'there today by advices from Salonika' saying that German troops along the I whole Monastir front are being strong-1 hy reinforced. These forces are prob-, ably being transferred from Rouman-. ia where they ae no longer needed.! | Capitulation of a Roumanian army di-, vision with a loss of 8000 men was announced in the Berlin official statement. Besides Bucharest, most of Roumanians important commercial ( towns are in the German hands according to the statement. (By Ed L _ Keen) London. Dec. 8— (Special to Daily Democrat)—David Lloyd George stood I assured of success in his formation lof a new government today. And the j rapidity with which he surmounted all obstacles served today to solidify the nation behind the new premier. | Lloyd George seemed certain today , of sufficient support in parliament, through his aquisition of the votes of: the labor party. A meeting of the liberal party today adopted resolutions of confidence in their leader and the former prime minister Asquith ’ and expressed determination to sup--1 port the new Lloyd George govern- , ment in the prosecution of the war. , .! London. Dec. - 8— (Special to Daily / Democrat)— The Anchor line steam- - er Caledonia is believed to be sunk, t Lloyds announced today. The, Calei. donia has been in the service of the ( e British government since the begini- ning of the war and has been used s as a transport. Anchor line officials, jat New York said today. |

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, December 8, 1916.

TO BUILD CHURCH Canvassing Committee of Reformed Church to Start Work Sunday. i _ WITHIN THREE YEARS | Congregation Hopes to Have New Building— Canvass Sunday. Following the report of a commitI tee named to devise ways and means the congregation of the German Reformed church of this city decided upon a canvass for the purpose of securing funds for the erection of a new church building in this city. The five soliciting teams will begin work next Sunday morning and their report will probably be made to the congregation at the evening service. It is the plan of the congregation to erect the church within three years, and the subscriptions are so arranged that they may be paid either weekly, monthly, quarterly or semi-annually. The canvass will be completed during next Sunday afternoon and several of the teams will use automobiles in visiting the country residents who are members of the local church. It is sincerely hoped that the teams will be successful in securing sufficient pledges to promise the erection of a new church building for this worthy congregation. The teams who will work Sunday are: First Team —M. Kirsch, F. Litterer. Second Team —A. H. Seleraeyer, A. R. Ashbaucher. Third Team —M. F. Worthmann, ’ Albert Mutschler. Fourth Team—Martin Miller, J. O. ’ Sellemeyer. ’ Fifth Team —William Moeschberg •' er, Albert Sellemeyw. faFisWopen ’ Be Sure to See the Negro Minstrels and Other Attractions and EAT A LUNCH At the Fair —High School Athletic Association in Charge. At 7:30 o’clock this evening the ’doors of the grand mock county fair ■ will be thrown open and the puolic on paying for each individual the fee I of ten cents will be admitted to the splendor that lies behind the walls of the central school building. I The Decatur high school athletic i association is giving this carnival to ■ raise funds for its department and ■ nothing has been left undone to make i the affair a success. | Each room represents a tent, and there eacli class will have charge of l some special stunt. The Seniors, juniors, sophomores have arranged for vaudeville productions and stunts of various kinds; while the freshmen have charge of the refreshment booths. Five cents for each show will be charged. Be sure to come. WANT SUNDAY SHOWS. (Untied Press Service) Huntington. Ind., Dec. B—(SpecialB—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Notices that a I theater in this city would show free moving pictures on Sunday were run !on the screens of the theater. It was ■ generally considered a move on the ' part of the theater owners to re-open the war on Sunday theaters in this city. o— —— TO ADVERTISE. (United Press Service) . Hammond, Ind., Dec. B—(SpecialB—(Special to I Daily Democrat)—Plans for starting an advertising campaign to attract new industries to the cities of Gary, Hammond. East Chicago and Whiting ’were outlined at a meeting of rep--1 resentatives of commercial organiza--1 tions of those cities here today. The meeting was called by the industrial ! committee of the Hammond Chamber lof Commerce.

HOOSIER BRIEFS. (United Press Service) Bluffton, Ind., Dec. 8 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —When two young men, employes of a bank hero, stepped from the side door of the bank and fired a revolver into the air late at night, residents of the vicinity thought yeggmen were at work and (•tiled the police. Kokomo -Edna May Graham, widow of Tilman Graham, who was re- f cently killed when struck by a train j on the Pennsylvania tracks, has filed suit for SIO,OOO against the railroad. Kokomo —Mrs. John W. Kern, wife of Senator Kern, has filed two suits in the Howard county court asking money due her from her two farms in the county. Frankfort—Clerks, barbers, printers, hotel and restaurant employes have organized a trades council in this city. It is the plant of the- organization to later include other unions. MANY ATTENDED Many Relatives and Friends of Mrs. Julia Moses Attend Funeral. HELD AT THE HOME 1 Services for Infant Son of Walter Bultemeier Held I This Afternoon. 3 Funeral services for Mrs. Julia Moses were conducted from the home . on Fourth street by the Rev. J. C. Hanna, of the Presbyterian church. Out of town relatives and friends ( who attended the funeral were Mrs. Robert Harding of Fort Wayne, Mr. ( and Mrs. Fred Bell and Mr. and Mrs. George Morris of Bluffton, Mrs. J. L. Fulton of Portland, Dr. Robert D Schrock of Omaha. Neb.; Dr. Ralph F. Moses of Kendallville. Miss Eliza | beth M. Schrock of Wabash, J. S. ■ Moses of Chicago, Mrs. M. B. Knouse ■ of Warsaw, L. C. Moses of Houston. Tex.; Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Moses of Flint. Mich. ♦ ) Infant is Dead. Funeral services for the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bultemeier of Preble township were conducted from the home this afternoon, a short service being held by the pastor of r the Preble Lutheran church. The I child, which was born yesterday morning, lived but two hours. 0 ATTEND A FUNERAL. Mrs. Nick Eiting. Mrs. Henry Eiting and Mrs. C. N. Lang left this afternoon for Minster, O. They go to attend the funeral of a cousin of the first two named, and a brother-in-law ’ of the last named Rudolph Oldiges, whose death occurred there Wednesday. The funeral will be held tomorrow. The deceased was the father of ’ Frank Obliges, a former employe of the telephone office here and known to many. TO PREACH HERE W. P. Marsh of Atlanta, and Rev. Mavity Exchange Pulpits for the Day. REV. MAVITY TO LEAVE January First—Will Reside on His Farm Near Noblesville, Ind. Rev. J. H. Mavity, pastor of the Christian church, who resigned a < month ago. the same to take effect January first, will move to his farm near Noblesville, where he and his wife will make their home. Rev. Mavity will continue his ministerial career, filling engagements which he can reach from his home there. , Next Sunday, the Rev. W. Paul March, pastor of the Christian church at Atlanta, Indiana, who with his. wife, is here over Sunday, will preach ( : at the local church, exchanging pul- j 1 pits with the Rev. Mavity for the day. Rev. Marsh comes as a candidate for the place here. Rev. Mavity is recognized as one of the best ministers in the state, and the fact that he and his wife are to leave is the source of much regret.

LEAP YEAR GOING By Leaps and Bounds—But Very Few Marriage Licenses are Issued. A SMALL NUMBER But Two This Month—Women More Modest or More Independent? I Leap year will soon have ben drawn to a close and unless it makes an extra effort on the last lap of the journey it will come in several leips behind those of former years. The j war, both domestic and foreign; the i high cost of living and many problems of the abnormal year just passed, have served to dim the prominence ’ given this leap year. To this may be attributed some of its lack of adver- ’ tising and consequently of its slackness. Thus far this month, which nas | passed eight suns, there have been but two marriage licenses issued in this county. The preceding months showed a comparatively small number also, all of which may or may I not prove that the modern woman is i either becoming more modest or more independent than her sisters of the long ago TO ISSUE LICENSES. Ed Jackson, Indiana’s new Secretary of State has informed us that the state automobile department will ‘ begin issuing the 1917 automobile . and motorcycle licenses and number • plates on December 15th. We have 5 1 the application blanks at this offi<e ■ ’ and will be glad to fill them out for ■ •' all auto owners, or anyone requiring '• . a license. It is a violation of the law to run ' I your machine without the 1917 li il . cense. i-1 o WILLS PROBATED f Levi Poling Leaves Life Estate in All His Property to the Widow. PROVISIONS MADE Anna Claus Gives Her Estate to Children in Proportionate Shares. The will of Anna Claus, late of Hartford township, written September 18, 1914, witnessed by Peter J. Baumgart- | ner and Amos Hirschy was probated !in court. She gives to her two children by a former marriage, the sum of $1,450 to be divided equally. They are Edward and Jacob J. Stahley. All > the remainder of the estate is to go in equal shares to the children of her second marriage, Mary Johnson, William and Selma Claus. Mary Johnson and William Claus tire asked to serve as executors. In his will probated today, Levi Poling gives his estate to his wife, Lavina Poling for life. At her death it is to go in fee simple to his son. Harry Poling, who is to pay the funeral expenses and expenses of the illness of the testator, as well as those of the widow; and to care for the widow during her life. C. L. Walters and C. B. Poling were witnesses. A jury and Judge D. E. Smith aire hearing the claim of Emily Musselman against the estate of Emily Carter. At a prior trial the jury awarded the plaintiff $520 but a new trial was asked by the defendant. At the beginning of this trial, an offer to allow judgment for S3OO and interest, accrued and to accrue up to December 16 at four o’clock, was made. Upon motion the witnesses are separated during the trial. Martin G. Bienz, administrator of the estate of Magdalena Bienz, was authorized to spend money in a reasonable amount for insurance on the property of the estate. The current report of Esther Gallmeyer, administratrix of the Henry Gallmeyer estate, was approved. Esther Galmeyer qualified as guar(Continued on Page 5.)

BOSSE OPERA HOUSE. The laughing sensation. "A Full House,’’ the rip-roaring farce comedy, with Harry Hates and Marie j Clifford, the two leading fun makers, and a first class company of players, will be the attraction at the opera house Wednesday. December 13,. This big fun show, which played New York for six months, is the kind you have been looking for, "one hundred luaghs a minute guaranteed.” I with all special scenery and electrical effects, comes to Decatur as a spec ’ ial attraction. Having this open date. Manager Bosse secured them especially for you. It is the one great laugh producer and you cannot afford |to pass it up. Seats are now on sale , at the Holthouse drug store. NAIL HD DOWN Is Order Issued by Mayor Ross Johnson of (Jary to His Police Force. WILL ENFORCE LAWS Council Asked for Reasonable Regulation Privately —Absolute Publicly. Mayor Johnson of Gary will give his people “Blue laws" in regulating vice in that widely advertised wicked: city, as the result of a demand from I the council and others that laws lie! • enforced. The row has been watched ■ with interest by Mr. Johnson's Adams • county friends and the following fro a • the Indianapolis Star toady shows r that the mayor still has a good figtit ? in him: p Gary, Ind., Dec. 7—War betw'-n r Mayor R. O. Johnson and members of K the City Council over the questions of “absolute” or “reasonable” regu'.a---11 tion of conditions in Gary has result- '■ ed in steps by the mayor to clamp a tight "lid" on the town, to enforce )“blue laws” and to "Thompsons’.?" 150 saloons next Sunday. The mayor got his adjective from Mayor Thompson’s war on saloons in Chicago. Councilmen, angered by Johnson's . declaration that they are "grand stand players” in demanding a check on vice, are threatening to impeach him unless the .stipulations are carried out. Announcement was made by Hie , mayor that state laws are to be -n- --' forced to the letter. Late in the Jay he conferred with police officials oicerning the “lid.” Council's Stand Defined. Members of the council that in conference with the mayor they had demanded elimination of music and sale of liquor at disorderly houses, that resorts have no collection with saloons, that hotel and street soliciting be stopped, “blind pigs" be suppressed and no liquor sold in coffee houses and that remedied conditions rather than "spotlessly clean" ones were asked. The mayor asserted that in public the councilmen demanded absolute regulation; in his private office “reasonable” regulation. Councilmen W. S. Feur, Janus Combs and Theo. Freebury defined the demands on the mayor and attack j ed his statements that just as much | evil existed in ” bon ton” society a i l! in the high schools as in other places in the city. A Gary newspaper printed a list of alleged dives and gambling joints. It charged that gambling houses had to pay to a ring of five men $250 Initial fees, SSO a week and a percentage of profits. Local persons express fear that the vice row at this time will hurt Gary’s , chance of getting a Superior Court a! the hands of the Legislature. DR. FISHER KILLED (United Press Service) Washington, Dec. B—(Special to Dail yDemocrat)—The state department received official reports today that Dr. Fisher an American had been killed by bandits at Santa Rosalie. The killing is said to have occured i several days ago. Officials discount ed reports from the border of the killing of three other Americans. o — ..I TODAY'E HOOSIER ODDITY. (United Press Service) Wasaw, Ind., Dec. B—(SpecialB—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Calendars are being placed in the schools here by the Pennsylvania railroad to impress upon the children the danger of crossing tracks at places other than crossings.

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fl FIGHT Division in Indiana Senate Makes Fight Probable This Seccion. THE FIRST SINCE 1879 Presiding Officer Will Have Deciding Vote—Will be Republican. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. B—(Special to Dally Democrat) —Unless some dei finite plan of settlement is decided upon within the next few days, one !of the nottest fights ever seen In t ,e 'lndiana hgislature will take place between the republicans and democrats in the next senate over control of that body and distribution of the senate patronage. The senate will be composed of twenty-five republicans and twentyfive democrats, witli a democrat as the presiding officer the first few days of the session and a republican lor the remainder of the time. Only once before in Indiana’s history has there been a similar case—the meml>ership of the senate of 1879 ' having been divided between demoicrats and republicans. The senate was organized Jan. 9, i 1879, with Lieut. Gov. Isaac P. Gray, a democrat in the chair. Some afterI ward notable characters were in that i I senate. Among them, on the republican side, were; Addison C. Harris, t later Ambassador to Austria-Hungary .Gen. A. I). Streight, noted for his t'i- ( vil war achievements and later took f a leading part in Indiana's political history; Walter Olds, afterwards a s member of the Indiana Supreme court, ' Daniel W. Comstock, congressmanelect from the Seventh district; Geo. W. Grubb, afterward judge of Morgan „ county Circuit court for several terms Captain Milton W. Garrigus, now a candidate for chief doorkeeper of the >- senate. >, 3 Among the democrats were; Maj. I G. V. Menzies of Posey county; Inman. t H. Fowler, of Spencer, Ind., the pa- , triarch of Indiana democratic legislative history and still in active law practice at the age of 84. David J. , Hefron, later judge of a circuit court in Southern Indiana and many others, who later tokk their places with Indiana’s famous men. i The republicans asked for a division ’of power when the legislative session . opened. The democrats, however, contended that since Lieut-Gov. Gray . was a democrat, they had a majority. After a hot fight, the senate was or- . ganized with the democrats named to chairmanships of committees and the democrats named to the appointive offices, Lieut. Gov. Gray casting the deciding vote in each case. The one point where the coming i legislature will differ from that of 1879 will be the fact that the presiding officer of the senate in 1917 will be a democrat for the first four days i and a republican for the remainder of the session. In 1879 a democrat presided during the entire term. | n IN INDIANA TODAY. (United Press Service) Indianapolis. Ind.. Dec. B—(SpecialB—(Special Ito Daily Democrat) —Men —and only men—will De admitted this evening to the party given the membership committee of the Commercial Travelers’ Association of Indiana. This evening has been designated as “stunt night.” Indianapolis—Shriners of the Murat Temple tonight will hold their 1 winter ceremonial at the temple. The band, patrol, gatling gun squad, uml notables will parade the streets ami later a large class of candidates will be initiated into the order. Hammond —Every student in the high school will take part in the fair to be given tonight by the school. Huntington — Township organizations as units to the Huntington conn- ' ty dry federation were formed today as a step in a fight to make the county dry. Indianapolis—The winter swimming season of the Independent TurnJ verein will be opened tonight with a , swimming tournament. UNCLE HEZEKIAH OBSERVES. There’s all kind of wives but most often tli’ kind what refers to their husbands as "HIM.”