Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 300, Decatur, Adams County, 19 December 1916 — Page 1

volume XIV. Number 300.

DEMAND TERMS Lloyd George in House of Commons Speech Demands German Terms BEFORE TAKING STAND VV ilhout Reparation Peace is Impossible, He Declared Hotly. (United Press Service) (By Ed L. Keen.) London, Dec. to Daily Democrat (-The aflies will not treat with Germany "tor peace until Germany formally states the terms upon which her offer is based. A formal note to this effect will le sent to Germany shortly. Premier David Lloyd George announced such a rejection of German peace offers in the house of commons this afternoon. The allies terms are complete r?s toration and full reparation with effectual guarantees for the future, the premier declared. He stated England endorsed rejection of Germany's peace terms by Russia and France and emphasized the unity of the allies by de daring that each had arrived at its decision independently. He characterized the Teuton offer sis si “noose” of a rope in which the allies were asked to place their necks. Without reparation peace is impossible," de declared. "AU of the outrages of land and sea cannot be liqui dated by a few pious phrases about humanity. The allies insist the end of the war must be a complete guarantee against Prussian militarism disturbing the peace of Europe. * "We will wait until terms and guarantees are better than those which G rtnany has so lightly broken.” The prime minister followed the dis< ..-wi n of the German peace offer ■xJWscribfttg the reconstrnottorr s os the government. He announced recpgaition of former Premier Venezelos government in Greece against that of King Constantine. The premier declared that the new ministry had . decided to take over complete control of all shipping a they not have control of the railways. (By Carl W. Ackermann) Berlin. Dee. 19 —(Special to Daily Democrat;)—The American steamer Columbian was torpedoed without warning because nnce released after stoppage by a German submarine she sent out wireless warnings of the . submarine operating in violation of neuthality. This was the German reply today on American inquiries on , the vessel. Petrograd, Dee. 19 —(Special to the Daily Democrat)—The council of the empire today declared in favor of a categorical refusal of the allies to cuter peace negotiations with Germany. 1 o TROOPS COMING HOME (United Press Service) San Antonio, Texas, Dec. 19 —(Special tc Daily Democrat)—The following Indiana national guard troops will leave the border within three days; Company A signal Corps; Ambulance company No. 1; First battalion field 1 artillery minus battery B;. The first Indiana field hospital corps will be in the last group to leave, entraining about January 7th. - —oBUY LOT AT BLUFFTON (United Press Service) . . ’ i Washington, Dec. 19 —(Special to. Daily Democrat)—The treasury de- ■ partment has purchased a post office, site at Bluffton for $11,500 it was announced today. The site is located;' at the southeast corner of gashing-, ton and Main streets, and was purchased from Dr. L. IL Cook, Mrs. Sal ly Rose and E. A. Dailey. — -ci —7. board of education Representatives-elect J. W. Walker cf’Geneva, met with the county board rs education in County School Superintendent E. S. Christen’s office this; morning, when legislative matters were discussed. The township trustees took occasion also to report t»e; road supervisor’s election to the 4U-| ditor and to draw their checks '•> the December distribution of taxes. has*girl BABY 'jess Dailey ~e Myers-Dailey Company is the proud daddy of a k baby which came tc brighten home yesterday.

PECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

P election in boston (United Press Service) »o«ton, Dee. to (Spe( , lHl t 0 na|ly . pemoerat) Boston is today deciding' * ">•’ question of prohibition after the '"omentious campaign this city, Ims tver known. An ear ] y rush to | P<dl> forcasted the greatest vote l i 1 " history of the city. Betting l ) lo lw< > “’at the city would, s wh. Billy Sunday led the flfht I" 1 the prohibitionists. FUNERAL FOR TWINS. Funeral services for twins, a boy ami a girl, born prematurely yester<lay morning at. two o’clock to Miami Mrs. Isaac Raver, were eonducted yesterday afternoon from the Clark's Chapel. o fl STEEL_SLIVER Loosened by Chisel from Old Engine Struck Robt. Edington in Eye. IT BECAME IMBEDDED In Eye-ball—Taken to Hospital Where it Was Removed With Magnet. Robert Edington, of Sixth street, was rushed to the hospital in Fort Wayne on the 5:45 car last evening, where a large magnet was used by surgeons in extracting from his eve, a large sliver of steel, which had cut through the eye lid and become embedded in the eye ball. A test of Mr. Edington's sight was made before the operation, revealing the pleasing fact that the sight wis not destroyed. He remained at the hospital for treatment. Whether the sight will be saved will not be known until the bandage is removed. The accident happened last evening at about 4:45. Mr. Eddington was working for Mr. Coburn of Huntington, who is taking the old engine apart, preparatory to the dismantling of the power house here. A portion of the engine was being chiseled, and a sliver from the chiseling is the one that did the injury. Surgeons there stated that the sliver of steel was the largest they had ever removed in cases of thjs kind. CARD OF THANKS The children of the late Andrew Jackson express their thanks in this way to neighbors and friends for the kindnesses shown them at the time of the death of their father. o DREW TWO YEARS Kit C. Cowan, Former Bobo Postmaster, Pleaded Guilty to Charge AND WAS SENTENCED , To Two Years at Atlanta ” Federal Prison —Taken x There Wednesday. « f Kit C. Cowan, former postmaster of Bobo, Ind., entered a plea of guilty to E a charge of embezzlement contained in an indictment before Judge A. b. Anderson yesterday in Federal Court and was sentenced to serve two years in the Federal Prison at Atlanta, Ga„ ( Cowan, when arraigned in the same ( court, three weeks ago pleaded not ( . guilty- , , . Cowan admitted embezzlement <f t $231 of government funds while setvi Ing as postmaster at Bobo. Cowan f ; and Rudolph Brunner, sentenced to I n i serve a year and one day for using f , the mails in a scheme to defraud, will h ! be taken to Atlanta within the next ■ two days. t ” CARD OF THANKS. 1 The wife and children of the late c . c. Wilder wish in this way to extend their sincere thanks to the ( friends, neighbors, the choir the mtnister and all who assisted them dur ing the illness, and at the time of he death of their loved one; and for the sympathy expressed in the many floral offerings, and in other ways, p

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, December 19, 1916.

TO TRY SUSPECTS T Suspects for Murder of V ollie” Smith, Clover Leaf Detective * WILL HAVE TRIAL i ■_ Latter Part of Month at Toledo, Ohio — Suspects Held in Jail There. Local interest will center in a mur- ■ der trial to be tried at Toledo, Ohio? the \latter part of this month, when I several suspects held in the Toledo jail will be placed on trial, charged with the murder of Frank V. Smith, a former resident, and police officer and well known Clover Leaf railroad man. Smith, who was better known to his friends as "Vollie" Smith, had accepted a position with the secret service department of the Clover Leaf with headquarters in Toledo. During the early part of June. Smith discovered train robbers working in the Toledo yards and attempted to capture them. In the revolver battle that followed, Smith was fatally wounded. He killed one train

robber, wounding another. Weak from the loss of blood caus- 1 ed by the wound in his body. Smith plugged the opening with his handkerchief and walked to a farm house a mile away where he asked for help. He was taken in and calls were sent ] , to the Toledo department. The man killed by Smith was found, but others in the party made their escape. Smith was rushed to the Flower Mission hospital at Toledo, where he died a couple of days later. R. B. Deleplaine, chief special agent of the railroad, brought about the arrest of the men who caused Smith’s l death, after several weeks' work. Several of the gang were taken into custody. Later it was reported that a confession had been secured from one 3 of the men. MAILING RULES — ■ ■ ! ■ Postmaster Issues Rules for Mailing of ChristPackages.

WRAP THEM SECURELY And Insure Valuable Packages—Mail Early to Assure Delivery. (United Press Service) Rules for Mailing Christmas Pai leases. Mail early. Wrap securely. Address Plainly. Insure ‘valuables. Place Christmas seals on backs of parcels. Don’t try to send liquor through the mails. Indianapolis. Dec. 19—(Special to| Daily Democrat) —Robert Springsteen, Indianapolis postmaster today ; gave the United Press the above rules; for sending Christmas parcels. On; account of the tremendous amount of mail sent at the last minutes, many packages are not delivered until after Christmas. Hundreds of packages each yetr are delayed or lost entirely because) the wrapping come loose or because; they are not addressed plainly, the: postmaster stated. Although the law which prohibits the placing of Christmas seals on the; front of letters and packages, Is sus-| pended from Dec. 1 to Jan. 1, the post-i master recommends that sea) be con-| fined to the back of the package. The law is suspended, he stated, because ■ i if it was not, it would be necessary, to throw out more than one halt ofii the packages. I 1 * 1 WITHIN TWO DAYS I ( Within two days the Knights of I y thias bowling alleys will be ready for, t use of the members of the lodge, rhe ’ i carpenters have finished and the lastj t coat of varnish is drying. As soon as the varnish is quite dry the alleys, i may be used. 1 '

TWO DIE IN CHAIR (United Press Service) Ossinning, N. Y„ Dee. 19 (Special jto Dally Democrat) Stanley Mill ; stein, 19, anil Charles Kumrow, 30. gave up three days of their life tn which something might have int->r vened to save them that they might ' spare their families the sorrow of a Christmas funeral, and went to their! deaths in the electric chair m dawn 1 today. Their execution had been set ; for Friday but they asked to be per j mitted to die today. Mlllsteln wt.< the youngest prisoner ever sent to j death at Sing Sing. Kumrow’s father j sat in the office of the prison from ■ 3 a. m. until his sons execution, lie had traveled all day and all bight from Buffalo in the hope of seeing j his son before he died but this privilege was refused him by prison authorities. o ONE IM WEEK i In Which to Use Red Cross Christmas Seals—Campaign Nears Close. ARE YOU HELPING 1 In the Sale and Consequent-

ly in F’ight Against Tuberculosis? t There remains but six days before ! Christmas and you are now wrapping 1 your gifts and sending them away ( ■ or you will soon mail them. In either ease don’t forget to mi* on the Red Cross Xmas greeting that seems to be just the touch to make your gift both welcome and so pleas--1 ing to the eye. Really have you ever studied the little stamp from'an artistic side? Printed in the colors that for so long have associated with yuletide, it bears upbn the margin the time honored greetings the season. In the large green field is Santa Claus, the same fat chubby, happy fellow of your childhood days, bearing a bag filled with surprises for young and old. On the bag is printed in red the emblem of the American Red Cross Society while below is the year and the name of the national organization. One can hardly imagine a prettier or more appropriate design for the decorating of gifts at this

ioi tilt? utx urmiug ui ui i f Christmas time. When you place thi greeting on your package or lette there can but come to you a daul.h . joy, happiness for what this Christmas is to mean to you and yours and e greater pleasure when you know that from the use of these seals it is made possible to redeem some person back to health and strength to become a useful member of society. ■j The recipient of a gift or letter so stamped can but the more appreciate it for it reminds them that you remembered not only them but others less fortunate as well, and this after all is the greatest reason for the use of Red Cross Christmas Seals. HAD OPERATION Rev. Beisser, Retired Reformed Minister, is in Lutheran Hospital IN FORT WAYNE Resting Well and Condition is Favorable Since Oper- , ation Yesterday. Rev. Beisser of Indiana street, a re- - tired minister of the Reformed church 1 who was taken to the Lutheran hoc- ’ pital, in Fort Wayne, Saturday evw 1 ing, was operated upon yesterday as- ! ternoon for bladder trouble. A telephone message to M. Kirsch j this morning from the nurse, brought ) the good news that he rested well: < last night and that his condition is a favorable. Mr. Beisser, who is about seventy- r three years old. was for many years c pastor of both the Magley and Deca- c tur Reformed churches. t For several years he has been liv- t ing a retired life, residing in this 1 city with his wife. v

BERNE MAN GONE Samuel B. Hirschy, Well Known Bern Man, Has Been Absent. REWARD IS OFFERED For Information as to His Whereabouts—Cards are Sent Out by Sheriff. 'I Samuel B. Hirschy. until May 6th, I ; last, one of the best known residents of the town of Berne, is the subject of a nation-wide search now being made , by his family,’assisted by Sheriff Ed Green of this city, who lias sent out i hundreds of postal cards hearing the picture of Mr. Hirschy. his description and the announcement of a re-' , ward of $25.00, which will lie paid for ' ! information of his whereabouts. Mr.

- w Hirschy left his home at Berne May 6th last, and has not been heard from since. He is sixty-three years old five feet and seven inches in height weighs 165 pounds, light complexion ed. bald, grey eyes and is bow-legged He is- a genial, well met man am his family has worried for month over over his disappearance, finall seeking aid of the sheriff to assis them. Mr. Green or the family wi appreciate any information that wi lead to locating him. W. R. C. NOTICE, There will be a called meeting i the W. R. C. Friday afternoon at 2:1 o’clock. HEAVY IRSffll On Interurban, Incident t( Holiday Travel. Will be Taken Care of

is ' WITH EXTRA CARS ?r le; s Two Sections Will Leave Ft. j Wayne at Specified Times —Also Decatur. The Decatur-Fort Wayne interur- ' ban, through its general freight and passenger agent. Homer Ruhl, and others, is preparing to take care of ’ the expected heavy holiday passenger traffic. In anticipation of this, the interurban has arranged to have two sections of cars leaving at certain times. A second section leaving Fort Wayne has been provided for both Thursday and Friday afternoons. Decern- i ber 21 and 22, leaving Fort Wayne at 4 o’clock. For the even greater rush expect-I ed for Saturday, December 23, two sections will leave Fort Wayne at 1:00, 4:00 and 7:30 o’clock. On Monday, Christinas day, De--1 cember 25, two sections will leave De- ’ catiir at 5:45 p. in. . ( — o BIG FACTORY FIRE I) (United Press Service) Salem, Ind., Deev. 19—(Special to | Daily Democrat)—Fire early today \ I destroyed the Stout Furniture factory i and the Salem electric light plant I with a loss estimated at $300,000. The t Stout plant was one of the biggest furniture factories in the state. Fire- j men summoned aid from nearby cities I but were hampered in fighting .he flames by the cold. I MORE PRIZE BIRDS P Joe Mazlin of Monroe township this \ county has returned from Chicago J where, he had several pins of high class birds entered in the middle west I poultry show. He won first and sec- c ond on exhibition cockerels and first on pullet cockerels in the brown Leg I horn classes in competition with four t thousand four hundred birds, again t placing Adams county on the map t with a big A. i

RELIEF FROM SHORTAGE (Unlteil press Service) Indianapolis, Dec. 19 (Special to Dally Democrat)- Relief from the gas ; shortage in Indiana cities was promised by A. L. Maxin, genera) manager oi the Ixigan gas company today, lie told the public service commission that factories and largo plans would l:e cut off from Ihe mains in order to give private consumers ti larger supply. This will mean an increase of five million cubic feet in the supply for private consumers Maxin stated. I Protests were received from officials j of Marion, Richmond. Anderson. Mun- , l ie, Elwood and Alexandria against i the shortage. A public hearing scheduled for this morning was continued I until Thursday morning at the request of Maxin. REPORT IS MADE Township Trustees Report Election of Road Supervisors Today TO COUNTY AUDITOR Election Held Saturday— Vote Heaviest in Jefferson Township. y; Township trustees were in the city II today and filed with the county auili- *• tor, the report of the election of road l ’ supervisors held Saturday, in Kirkll ‘ land and Washington townships, nc (i - elections were required. Several el 1(1 the trustees will mail in reports 1S Those reported to the auditor are: Preble -Diet. No. 1. Ernest Doehr Kt man 1 vote; Diet. No. 2, John G. Hoii man. 5; Henry Ehlerding 1: Dist. Nc 3. August Scheumann, 5. Union —Dist. No. 1, Richard Biscl off, 5; Dist. No. 2, Fred Thieme, in Christ Marbach, 1. of Hartford—Dist. No. 1. William Bi 30 ler. 14: Dist. No. 2. James Pusey,- ! W. O. Shoemakt-r, 1; Rufus Glendei ing. 1. Cl St. Mary's—Dist. No. 1, James I | Boyd. 22; Richard Welker. 9; M. k Weimer, 8. Blue Creek —Dist. No. 1, no elei tion; Dist. No. 2. tie votes, each o u two receiving eight votes. Jefferson- Dist. No. 1, Abe Bebout 7; Frank Ryan. 1; Dist. No. 2, Samur, Dickerson, 4; Dist. No. 3, Homer Charleston. 20; Philip Brewster. 16. Dist. No. 4. Charues Duer. 9; George Hiller, 3; Bryson Fetters. 2; John Wendel, 1. Monroe—West, John Wittwer; Eas f , ~ no votes cast; Ben Neuenschwander will be reappointed. (Continued on Pag., z.) o HELD DEBATE Dehate on Economic Question Decided in Favor of Affirmative. AT REGULAR MEETING Os Knights of Columbus— Rev. Father Kroeger Gave Fine Biography. With an address of thirty minutes by Rev. Father Kroeger and a debate on the question, Resolved; That the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage be prohibited bv law in these United States; (he Knights of Columbus at their regular meeting last night had one of the best social and business sessions in. the history of the local order. Father Kroeger in his talk gave an interesting biography of Monseigneur < Robert Hugh Benson. In the debate James F. Arnold, Dr. H. F. Costello and Martin J. Smith represented the affirmative and the ne-i gative was well handled by Lawreucel Voglewede, Julius Heldeman and J. F. McKenna. The judges. Mayor C. N. Christen, Dyonis Schmitt and Thomas Mylott; decided in favor of the affirmative. A number of the Knights will go to! Fort Wayne this evening to attend: the district meeting being held there today, but the order here will not attend in a body because many of the! members are detained by business.

Price, Two Cents

THE COURT NEWS )' ■ McDermott’s Case Given to the Jury at 2:40 O’clock 11 This Afternoon. WEDDING WAS HELD , I In Clerk’s Office This Morning—Prohate Matters 11 Attended to. •| The evidence in the case of the i State vs. Charles McDermott, rape, i was concluded last evening; the argu- ■ ments give n today and the case given ■ to the Jury at 2:40 o’clock till: after- ! noon. t Trustee John Miller of Preble township has reported the election of Ge following supervisors: District No 1, Ernest Doehrmau, wiio received just ' one vote, district No. 2. August ScheiI man who raised the vote five and di.itrict No. 3, John Hoffman who alto k got five votes. Evidently there was not as much interest in tills election as there was in the one last November. Attorney D. B. Erwin went to Bluff- ' ton today to take part in (he argument of a new trial of the case of Tha I Bank of Geneva vs. Ditzler, on note. f. i Real estate transfers: Amos K. . Stoneburner to Floyd 11. Stoneburner. . 47 acres of Kirkland township. $5.00'); o ,iiay Hook, et til to Joseph L. Hook. >f|lo acres of Blue Creek township. $1; j Orplia Hook, et al to Ray Hook. 5 acres of Blue Creek township, ?l; r- John M. Walters to (. harles N. Marlin if- et al lots 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42 W.llo. iams. $1; Clyde M Rice ct al to David M. Rice, lot 472, Decatur, $2,500; Willi- liam L. Breiner to Joshua Burkheatl, 0; realty in Kirkland township, 56.0T0 Jojm Kuntz et al to Theodore Woeste. >3- lot 358 Geneva. $800; Clan: B. Mc•r,: Kean to T. J. McKean, lot 4 Buena !,1 ‘ Vista, SI,OOO R. 1 The case of the State against Jay S. Snyder, for larceny, has reached the I circuit court. It was sent there from i- the court of Justice Charles Shoer,f maker of Wabash township, where i Snyder was found guilty of stealing a f $2 skunk hide; and forty musk rat 1 hides, valued at forty cents each, tnak- ' ing a total of twenty-two dollars, as ’• set out in the affidavit. The theft was H from Walter Thornhill. i A marriage license was Issued to . Fred D. Zuercher, laborer, born May 19, 1895. son of Daniel Zuercher, to wed Viola Musser, bc-n July 29, 1898, (daughter of Christ Musser. The couple was married at 1:30 in the county ’ clerk’s office by Justice E. B. Lenhart. The girl's parents acconi]>anied her. J. T. Merryman, attorney for Homer Archbold, filed a suit on account against August Schlickman. Malcomn Ripley, guardian of Ada and Roy Hakes, was authorized to expend not more than SSO for furniture for ward as petitioned for. The ease of Josephine Hoover vs. ! Stella May Delegrange was set >'c r ‘ issues r or January 16. Orpha Me Manama vs. Margaret Jacobs. Appearance for defendant by J W. Teeple. Bule to answer. MR. BEERY GIVEN XMAS GIFT Members of the Men's Chorus, a musical organization, formed two years ago and which has furnished splendid numbers for various entertainments since, were on (he program at the meeting of the Bible Class at the Methodist church last evening. At the conclusion of the meeting W. F. Beery, the popular leader, was presented with a handsome gold wa'eh chain and a beautiful K. of I’. charm. That he was pleased goes without .saying and he has asked us to express to the members his most fine >re thanks for the remberance. There are twenty members of the Men's ' Chorus and it is recognized as one ' of merit. I O NATION TO GO DRY. Washington, J). C„ Dec. 19- (Speci lai to Daily Democrat) —That the entire nation will go dry during this : congress and tliat the government must immediately begin consideration of the work of* replacing tha liquor tax was declared in the house by Representative Fitzerald of NewYork.