Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 27 January 1917 — Page 1

Volume XV. Number 24.

TWO BILLS PASS House Holds Session This Morning—Passed Two Bills—2l Filed. NO SENATE SESSION Bills Passed Are Good Ones, Providing for Less Court Expenses. (United )*ress Rervlcft) Indianapolis, Jan. 27—(Special to j Daily Democrat )-Two bills were passed and twenty one new measures were introduced in the house today. No session was held by the senate. The bills passed were: Senator Hemphills allowing a holder of five shares of stock in a trust company to be eligible to directorship; and Representative Harmon’s bill providing that in case a change of venue is demanded in any court the judge may call in another judge or disinterested attorney to try the case. This measure. it is believed, will save a large amount of the expenses now necessary in a change of venue. Representative Walker of Geneva presented a petition from Adams county declaring against the Moore! bill for repeal of the three miles road law. n CONDEMNATION UNFAIR. (United Press Service) Pittsburg, Jan. 27 —(Special to the Daily Democrat)—By the way of informing the world that, 1 blunders made by American exporters are the exception rather than the rule by the National Foreign Trade council reported to the Fourth National For ! eign Trade convention which will I dose here today by the fragmentary | reports made on American trade i have given an erroneous impression. The report said in part: "A situation has recently arisen affecting the reputation of American exporters which contain elements both of great good and harm. Certain American consuls, commercial organizations and banks have done a useful service in sharply calling attention to specified derelictions on the part of Americans in export trade "In itself, this had done good but it is apparent that many newspapers, magazines and individuals have made these specific complaints the basis for generalizations highly’ discreditable . to all American foreign trade. This generalization is untrue. This can be proven by citing that our export of manufactures nearly doubled between 1905 and 19013 a practically unapar ailed expansion." THE WHATCHAMA COLUMN. (United Press Service) Daschunds. The daschund is a long, narrowdog that spends all its time growing in one direction. Its face is so far from its stomach it has to hire a guide so its meals j won’t get lost. And it has to start eating at 3 in the afternoon to get its . food to its appetite by dinner time. The daschund is the only dog known that can stand on the tiont porch and sit down in the kitchen. One-half of a daschund can be com- j ing home while the other half is still going up town. The Daschund sags badly in the middle because it has only a few legs. The only thing that makes a daschund jealous is a centipede. George Martin. FIFTEEN PLEAD GUILT Y (United press Service) Cincinnati, Jan. 27— (Special to the Daily Democrat)—Fifteen men, eight of them negroes pleaded guilty in .federal court this afternoon to a charge that they sold their votes at the recent presidential election for one dollar each. Three others pleaded not guilty. The eighteen men whose arrest on indictments returned by the grand jury in the vote fraud probe had not been, previously mentioned, having been held as witnesses. TORPEDO BOAT AFIRE (United Press Service) Washington, Jan. 27— (Special to Daily Democrat)—A United States torpedo boat has been found afire and beached on Long Island and tow* to Greenport Long Island by a Unit? States Coast guard cutter according to th© coast guard here today. Fte hame of the torpedo boat, which is characterized as “small was not gi ven.

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I SHAVED HIS FINGER * Elmer Kline annotated the end of | the third finger of his left hand with neatness and dispatch this morning In II an accident with a razor at his barber | shop in the court house basement. He was putting the finishing touches on Dell Ixicke, and when he raised ifls razor in his right hand he permitted his left hand to strike the keen edge , with the result that the finger was cleanly severed, about half way do vn the nail. —Portland Sun. — o — MRS. WAGONER LOW Mrs. John Wagoner, of First street, ! who has been very low of paralysis for the past five years is very low j and at the point of death. She is slx- ; ty-nine years old. HOT ATTACKS Hill 304 and Dead Man’s Hill Scene of Heavy Violent Fighting. NO CHANGES NOTED In Positions of Opposing Armies—Official Statements Are Vague. (United Press Service) Paris, Jan. 27 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Attacks throughout last night and this morning against positions on hill 304 won yesterday by the Germans was fruitless, todays of-i ficial statement declared. All su'h assaults broke down with loss to the attackers. Paris, Jan. 27 —(Special to Da ; lyi Democrat)—Fighting of great inten-j sity ovre a battleground, every inch of which had long ago been accurately mapped and arrangeed for artillery bus marked the renewed struggle about Dead Man’s Hill.and Hill 304. o • KAISER’S BIRTHDAY (United Press Service) Berlin, Jan. 27 —(Special to Daily Democrat - ) —Emperor Charles of Ans-tro-Hungary, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria and the heir apparent to the Turkish throne are in Berlin today] aiding the Kaiser in the celebration of! his fifty-eighth birthday and preparing to issue a manifesto to the w’orld placing the responsibility on the entente for the war’s continuation. The Sultan of Turkey sent felicitations. He is too old to make the trip. Clubs and patriotic organizations throughout Germany are celebrating the day. The demonstrators, in contrast to those of the years before the war, are of a solemn nature. __— o _— FAVORS SERVICE. (United Press Service) Washington, D. C., Jan. 27 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The National ! Security League this afternoon unanimously went on record in favor of universal military service for all male I citizens of the United States at nineteen years of age. The Plattsburg system was advocated. An interna- ] tional court and a league to enforce j the peace as proposed by President ; Wilson might draw the United States into an European war or an Asiatic war, Representative Gardner declared ,in speaking before the league. Gardner denuonced the president’s speech deriding the idea of “Peace without victory,” and denied the practicability of a “concert of nations to enforce a lasting peace.” ANOTHER BIG FIRE. (United Press Service) Pittsburg, Jan. 27—(Special to Daily ■ Democrat) —Fire broke out at 2:10 ■ o’clock this afternoon in the building ■ of the Philadelphia company. A bad ■ situation confronted the firemen who i answered the first alarm there as -| much of the apparatus is frozen to the !! paving about the scene of the big >' blaze. The two fires had no con- . ndetion it was declared. The fire in the Philadelphia company’s building spread quickly to the Mixon theater ; block. HURTY INVESTIGATES 5 j 4 s (United Press Service) 1 Indianapois, Jan. 27 —(Special to 1 the Dally Democrat)—Dr. J. N. Hurty 1 left today for Orange county to exam- ? ine a patient whose disease has h,e?n e diagnosed as leprosy by Dr. W. W. S'Hoggatt, county health officer. The i-lease is not advanced and the patient I has not been isolated.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, January 27, 1917.

, ILL ON THE TRAIN 1 r Mrs. Agnes Zahm Who Vis- , , ited With Tettmans SudJ denly Stricken With ; A PARALYTIC STROKE While Enroute from Here to Florida — Wealthy Huntington Woman. Leaving this city yesterday mo.m ing, enroute to Tampa, Florida to spend the winter as usual, Mrs. Agnes Zahm, widow of Jacob Zahm, of Huntington, who had spend several weeks her 4 with a relative, Herman Tett-j Iman, was seized with a paralytic stroke, affecting her left side. The Portland Sun says: “She start- 1 ed south on the morning train whi h reaches this city at 2:44 a. m„ enroute to Tampa, Florida, where she is aej customed to s|>end her winters. She had been in her usual health for the! past few days with the exception tacks of dizziness. She started on her trip alone and shortly after Ihe train left Decatur the conductor found her seated in the day coach in an un- : conscious condition. He telegraphed the company’s physician in this city who met the train with an ambulance and there being no hospital here she was removed to the home of Nelson IR. Williamson on South Meridian street. Mr. Tettman arriven on the morning train and her only broth?' - , John Braddock of Newark, Ohio was summoned here.” Mrs. Zahm did not regain consciousness, dying at 11:15.' Mrs. Zahm left a large estate aci cording to the Huntington Herald. Mrs. Zahm was past seventy years of age. Afraid of Wife, He Wants a Divorce—Farmers to Raise Tomatoes. — AROUND AND AROUND Walter Drove Coal Wagon With Intoxicating Results —Got Pinched. (United Press Service) Vincennes, Jan. 27 —(Special to the Daily Democrat) —Declaring that h.s wife threatened to “cut out his heat' ’ William Koehler filed suit for divorce.; Washington,—Daviess county farmers were urged to raise tomatoes at a meeting today under the supervis-; ion of pasking company of Terre j Haute. Evansville —Walter Dravis was driv-| ing his coal wagon in a circle when he was arrested on the charge of in- j toxication. Kokomo —Edward Rowson has filed \ suit against his son, Norman, to have a contract which father and son e.i-; I tered into. The son agreed to work i ■ in his father’s drug store until August 1917 but has failed to live up to his ' agreement, according to the complaint. Markle—The. farmers institute, coni ducted by farmers of this vicinity 1 j during the last two days, closed to : day. I' c , TWO MILLION DOLLAR FIRE (United Press Service) ’! Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 27—(Special to ; Daily Democrat) —Fire iHd two million dollars damage here early today 11 , i when a half block in the main busiriness district was destroyed. Five persons were injured, none seriously. The • block was one of the oldest in the city and the fire spread rapidly. The largest loss was that of Frank Seber j department store where the loss was f \ $600,000. The grand Theater was de- • ißtroyed with a loss of $200,000, the i! McCory five and ten cent store lost . $125,000 and the Helhin clothing store e $50,000. The blaze started shortly t after one o’clock and at ten this morning was not fully under control.

IFOR FURTHER ACTION (United Press Rervlne) Indianapolis. Jan. 2) (Special to Daily Democrat)--Backers of the woman suffrage bill in the house are already making plans for further action J if the Judiciary B. committee kills the I measure introduced by Representative Alldradge of Anderson providing for I giving partial suffrage to women. It now seems probable that the mens- ! ure will die in the committee, as practically the entire committee membership Is opposed to equal-suffrage. • i If the hill Is killed, the suffragists | have already planned another hill .or introduction and will ask Speak r Eschbach to refer it to some other committee —probably rights and privileges—which may give the measure t favorable action. MRS.GRUBER DEAD Mrs. Anna Gruber Died at Magley Last Night After Two Weeks’ Illness. ILL OF PNEUMONIA •| Was Wife of Elias Gruber —Was Sixty-seven Years Old. Anna S. Gruber, aged sixty-seven, wife of Elias Gruber, of Magley, died last night at nine o’clock after a two weeks’ illness of pneumonia. Mrs. Gruber was horn July 29, 1839. being a native of Ohio. She was a daughter of Daniel Jaberg. Mrs. Gruber had two sons, but they went west many years ago. One ii <s not been heard from for twenty years i and the other, for fourteen or more. Surviving brothers and sisters ar?: Sam Jaberg and Mrs. William Selle- , meyer ot Magley; Frank Jaberg, o - Sanborn, N. D.; Mrs. Reichenbach, of North Georgetown. Ohio. BOWLING TOURNAMENT. Much interset is being shown be tween rival bowling teams in the Knights of Pythias lodge. Four teams have been organized with the lodge membership, each bowling one night in the week. The tournament will last ten weeks. Friday evening the teams captained by Burt Man gold and Chrales Knapp battled for supremacy. Mangold's men winning in the three games with 1,941 pins, while Knapp’s men trailed behind with 1,743. MANY WANT JOB Forty-five Applicants for Position of Rural Mail Carrier. ON ROUTE NO. NINE Examination Held This Morning—Successor to Martin Jaberg. That government positions in gen- • eral are highly desirable and that of j rural mute carrier in particular, was ! evidence today by the fact that fortyfive applicants took the civil service i examination today at the central schoolhouse. The examination is for the purpose of getting a carrier for rural route i nine, succeeding Martin Jaberg, who resigned to become deputy auditor. The examination was conducted by i George Everett and his assistant, Ray ! Smith, of the local examining board. TAX BILL IS UP > (United Press Service) Washington, Jan. 27 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Because such ci ' ties as New York are “hotbeds of pre- • | paredness agitation" and because the - democratic tax bill which has been ? decided upon “levies a tax upon those s who are benefitting by preparedness 3 appropriations” most of the text will r be collected in the north, representas live Kitchen, democratic house leader '■ stated today. The bill providing for e; raising $248,000,000 as framed by uiat jority members of the house ways e and means committee was introduced y in the house this afternoon. A full i- meeting of the committee will consider the measure Monday.

PROGRAMS GIVEN n I ► For Sunday Evening Services of the Young Peor> i pie’s Departments. t THE EPWORTH LEAGUE And Christian Endeavor— Talks, Songs and r r Readings. > Miss Ruth Parrish, leader of the Epworth League at the M. E. chur.h | Sunday evening at six o'clock, the sub | ject being, “Half a Life or a Whole Life” announces the following program: Song. Scripture. Piano solo —Lee Anna Vance. Talk W. F. Beery. Prayer. Solo—Cecil Andrews. Talk —Rev. F. F. Thornburg. Piano Solo—Mrs. L. E. Keller Violin oSIo —Charles Thornburg. Benediction. C. E. At Christian Church. Miss Florence Leichtensteiger will i lead~"the Christian Endeavor service at the Christian church Sunday evening at 6:15, when the ssubject will be "The Fruits of the Christian Endeavor . Tree." The program in full follow. :] 1 ! Song. • j The Lord’s Prayer. Song. Scripture Ix>sson. Selection by the Orchestra. Scripture reading and clippings on i '|the lesson. ■ Talk —Rev. Marsh. Solo. Talk —Mrs. Minnie Daniels. Song. Benediction. HOOSIER PESTS — State Entomologist Snodgrass Tells How to Avoid San Jose Scale. IS AN INDIANA PEST And Must be Controlled — Sure Remedy Exists for it—Use it Now. (United Press Service) (By R. E. Snodgress, Assistant State Entomologist) (Written for the United Press) One drop of water out of a bucket might never be noticed but a few million might empty it. One San Jose , scale on an apple tree could not suck out enough sap to make any difference. but millions of them can suck its life away. The San Jose Scale is the worst sucker there is, but it is no fool for all of that. In the spring each female gives birth to several hundred young. The young ones plant their beaks in the |>ark, shed their six legs, secretes a waxy covering over their backs and settle down to business. Three or J four generations of the best are proi duced taring the summer, so that ' ; each infestetl tree! stands little chance of healthy growth or of pro- ’ I ducing a crop of salable fruit. ! ■ Fortunately there is a sure remedy for this pest. Limesulphur may “ be purchased by the gallon or barrel, ' diluted in six parts of water and > sprayed on the trees during a warm, ! dry spell in winter or early spring ’ before the buds begin to open. Oth- ■ erwise it may injure the leaves. Oil preparations are also used with success. They have the advanI tage of spreading better and being i ’ easier to use. One point, to be remembered in spraying is that every bit of surface must be covered, for there may be enough scales on some’ negldctad 1 spot to repopulate the entire tree in e the spring. Whether or not spraying E is effective, depends upon the man I who does the job. i- _o—- ;■ JACKSON’S SLAYER CAPTURED r (United Press Re-vice) i- Windsor. Ont., Jan. 27—(Special to s Daily Democrat) —James Stewart, the d slayer of W. M. Jackson, imigration II officer, was captured in a hotel here i- this morning after a terrific battle and closing a several day search.

I ERROR IN NAMES Several errors occurred in naming the children of the late Henry Fuhrman yesterday. The children are: . Mrs. J. W. Shifferly. Union township; i David Fuhrman, Monroe; John Fuhrman, Matthews; Mrs. Charles Schnii'.. Mrs. Emanuel Schnltz, Henry Fuhrman, Decatur, Rosa, at home; Mrt. Reuben Sprunger, Montana; Mrs. Ben Winans, Livingstone, Montana; Mr C. H. Asbury, Reno, Nevada. FLAG AT HALf MAST. , Simeon Fordyce accompanied Mur-; ray Scherer to the Henry Fuhrman home nortli of the city this morning.; taking with him the large G. A. R. j flag which is hung at half mast at the home ot the deceased members. A NEW CANDIDATE C. W. Yager, Former County Treasurer, Candidate for City Mayor on DEMOCRATIC TICKET Mayor Christen Also Candidate —Race Promises to Become Lively. Charles W. Yagre former treasurer of Adams county, well known business ; man and an old timer in politics, to i day filed his deilarati'on with the city clerk, as a candidate for mayor of the city. He will make an active camj paign starting at once as the time is ! short unless the legislature changes the date which now seems probable, as fixed by law now the date for the primary is Tuesday, March 6th., but efforts are being made to change the date to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May. C. N. Chrtsten. present mayor is a candidate for r«I election and the race promises to ’>e la lively one as both men are popular. ! capable and know the game of poliI tics. So far the only republican canI didate announced is J. ? W. Teep’e. well known attorney, though it is whispered that another well known ; man is being urged by a faction of the g. o. p. to come out. Any way it looks like there may be something doing in the city campaign though n looked rather quiet for a time. TOM BROWN AT LARGE AGAIN. (United Press Serv'-e) Portsmouth, N. H., Jan. 27 —(Special to Daily Democrat) — “Tom Brown,” who has served terms at Auburn. Sing Sing. Dannemora, and had long experience in jails, was to step out of Uncle Sam's naval prison here ; today, a free man. Whether he will go back into jail tigain soon depends upon his own free will. For lorn Brown,” be it known is Thomas Mott Osborne, prison reformer, former warden of New York’s famous penal institution at Sing Sing. He contemplated today a ten day “term” in the naval prison at the request of Secretary of the Navy Daniels, who wanted a complete report on conditions in the prison and the feeling of the inmates —all of them enlisted sailors. With “Brown” for the past ten days as convicts have been Prof. John McCormick, professor of politcal science jat Bowdoin university, and Harry Balanisky, Osborne’s secretary. The three were treated exactly like other convicts in the prison. They wore the same clothes, ate the same food, j did the same hard labor on the iPortsmouth rock piles and no hint was given the convicts but that the trio were real “bad men” serving time like the rest of them. This is Osborne's third voluntary "term” in a prison to obtain first hand information as to conditions. His first “sentence" was at Auburn several years ago. IS EVACUATING (United Press Service) Juarez, Mexico, Jan. 27 —(Special to I Daily Democrat)—At daybreak today la general evacuation of •General Per- ; shingsc’s headquarters and base at i Colonia Dublan began, messages from ; the Carranza comffiander at Casses ' j Grande today stated. The evacuation ' j of Colonia Dublan will be in progress several days from indications the troops moving lesurely northward tj the next camp. n MEN'S CHORUS TO MEET Members of the Men's Chorus are, ’ requested to meet at the Presbyterian church Sunday afternoon at throe | o'clock. Please be present.

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BOOST AUTO LAW Local Dealers and Owners Favor Passage of House Bill Number 223. MAY STOP THEFTS Makes (’hanging of Serial Numbers or Distinguishing Mark Misdemeanor Local auto dealers and owners of automobiles are interested in a proposed law to make the changing of numbers on autos, a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment. The law is wanted to head off tha stealing of cars and the changing ot the serial number so they can not be identified. The law as proposed is house bill number 223, and reads: Section 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the state of Indiana. That whoever knowingly buys, I receives, disposes of. conceals or has i in his possession any automobile or motor driven vehicle from which tha manufacturer’s serial number or any other identification or distinguishing mark has been removed, defaced, covered, altered or destroyed for tha purpose <« concealing or misrepresenting the identity of said aiitomo- 1 bile or motor driven vehicle; or whoever in any manner changes the. : identity of any automobile or motor .driven vehivle by any means or method whatever, for the purpose of concealing. misrepresenting or destroying the identity of such automobile or motor driven vehicle shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than ten 11<>> dollars nor more than fifty (50) dollars or be imprisoned in the county jail for any period not exceeding thirty (30) days. LOCAL FIVE WINS Decatur High School Basket Ball Team Defeats Marion High School IN EXCITING GAME At Weber Hall Last Night Locals go to Liberty Center Wednesday. Only a fair sized crowd witnessed the Decatur high school basket ball team defeat the Marion five at the Weber hall in this city last night. Tha final score was 24 to 18, the locals showing best form in the first half which resulted 21 to 8. They let down slightly in the last half but held their opponents sufficiently to take the (jig end of the total score. The line up was as follows: Decatui. Marion Snyder F Muss°r Gehrig F Heiser Ball C Kleder Gay G Hays Linn G Smalley Substitutes —Roop and Weeks. Goals—Snyder 4. Gehrig 4; Ball:!; Mussey 2, Heiser 5: Kledett 1. Referee—Beery; time keeper. Peterson; scorers. Baker and Colter. The Decatur team will go to Liberty Center next Wednesday evening at which place they hope to win against that strong team There will be another fast game here next Friday evening ■■ <> ' ’ — | MANY here for auto day Jut tell them that Auto Day win) ; another big success and spell it in 1 capitol letters. The crowd was here, thousands of people from far and near. The baud played. Hundreds met hundreds and every body enjoyed It. The program was given at the Wlnnes corner anti for a half block each way the stre-’ S ; were impassable for au hour. Miss Rose Christen, book-keeper r.t ; the First National bank was presented the Mexwell automobile with sp ial compliments of the Holthouse i Drug Store and the business men of ; Decatur. The next Auto day will be Wedncs. February 28th j