Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 20 February 1917 — Page 1

Volume XV. Number 43.

• TEUTONS TO MAINTAIN THE BfIRREU ZONE Berlin Dispatch Says That XV hoever Enters Barred Zone Perishes. MEANS WAR IMMINENT Sweden Makes Formal Protest to ,Germany Demanding Indemnity. Berlin, Via Saville wireless, Feb. 20—(Special to Daily Democrat) —“It must be repeated again, however, that whoever dares penetrate the barred zone, perishes," declared the official government press bureau today in a statement discussing the British claims that the submarine war had failed. Washington, Feb. 20,—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The Administration espionage bill passed the senate today by a vote of sixteen to ten. Copenhagen, Feb. 20—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The Sweedish minister at Berlin has been instructed to make formal protest to Germany with a demand for compensation for the loss by torpedoeing of the Sweedish steamer Taring. Announcement to this effect was made today. (By Robert J. Bender) Washington. Feb. 20 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Americas real dan ger of an actual clash with Germany cannot be removed until the'Kaisers government revokes its <i-<-ree for submarine warfare. There was the highest authority for this statement today. More than two weeks have now passed without an “overt act” but officials were inclined to believe this might be due more to the fact that there was scant opportunity for commission of such an act rather - than to any purpose of Germany. Today however there are at least two unarmed American merchantmen in Germany's barred zone, the Oreleans and the Rochester. London, Feb. 20—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The problent of getting funds to American refugees from Germany constantly growing in Holland and Denmark, is worrying American residents here. Dispatches from Copenhagen today estimated the number of Americans thwe awaiting transportation back home at about five hundred. Many were said to be al- - most without funds. Some were United States officials. Holland dispatches today said those American consular officials who did not depart from Germany on the special embassy train which bore Ambassador Gerard are* preparing to leave through Switzerland. TRACTION WAGES INCREASED. The Fort Wayne & Decatur Traction company has announced another increase in wages for their trainmen. effective March 1. and affecting the first year men as* well as the older employes, so that all the men will benefit by the increase. The wages will he boosted two cents an hour, which is equal to a ten and onehalf per cent increase. The men are happy over the announcement and the management of the company deserves praise for the action. ISSUES A CALL County Assessor William Frazier has issued a call to the township as sessors to meet with him Weines day, February 28. to get their sup plies and instructions. This is pre liminary to their beginning their an nual work. Thursday. March 1. For several years the assessment! have been made at their true cast value, less 25 per cent. This yeai tli'e assessment will be taken at iti full one hundred per cent value there being no deduction whatever "notice. All G. A. R- members who wish ti attend the Washington celebration a Monmouth by the public schools, ma: go out on the 11:30 car, returning a $ o'clock, or they may go by othe conveyance, if they so desire.

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BURIAL AT SAN FRANCISCO * (United, Press Service) San Francisco. F*bb. 20-- (Special t< ; Daily Democrat) —The body of Majoi Genera) Frederick Funston will •>< „ buried in l he national cemetery at t’n ■ Presidio here according to an an ■ nouncement by’tMajor Genera) Bell All troops at the posts around Sai Francisco bay will participate, in tht ( military ceremonies. Mrs. Funsio was prostrated today ar ‘her home She came to San Francisco a mon’l ago in order that her children might attend school. Her daughter is sick iin o hospital. Mrs. Funston was giv p ' ing u dinner last night in honor of I her sister when the news of the Gen j erals death came. THE COURT NEWS Jesse Banks, Who Remaint ed way Longer Than Expected With Hired Rig ' IS FACING TRIAL 1 —— 1 Ed Gaffer Fined $lO and Given Ten Days in Jail , as Bill Snatcher. Jesse Banks, who hired a rig of the i Liniger stable and dove away, failing ■ ■ to return on schedule time, the rig bei ing found later by officers in a livery i- stable at New Haven, faced trial be- ■ fore a jury and Judge Smith today on 1 j the charge of grand larceny. With ’• him, fn court, were his sister and sev- | eral o(her relatives and friends. During the trial his attorney L. (’. De- , Voss, offered as evidence a receipt signed by Liniger for twenty-five dol- • ilars in full of livery hire and trouble ; occasioned by the drive-away, paid by a retatWe of Banks. The case will probably go to the jury this afternoon. J. F. Fruchte, J. ('. Sutton and H. B. ’ Heller are attorneys ror Ferinand Take administrator with the will annexed of the Washington Wolf estate I I i in a suit against Joseph Wolf, for rental, demand S2OO. i Ed Kintz was fined sls on his plea of guilty to grand jury indictment ot allowing minors in his pool room, the i charge of allowing minors to play .being dismissed. The case of Barclay Smith vs, Sam- ’ uel Simison. is set for March 20. The case of Ferdinand Yake, admin- . istrator vs. Charles Wolf was dfemiss- ! e<L John Rich was excused from the petit jury and Lee Stultz and William Smith appointed members of the reggular panel. James Eady vs. Harold Eady, parti tion of real estate. Defendant defaulted. (’. J. Lutz apointed guardian II ad litem of minor defendant. James Rupel et al vs. George Ad- ' ams. Case set for March 9. » Catherine Cross et al. vs. John Baker, administrator. The commissioner was authorized to sell notes and asign mortgages to the Old Adams County bank for cash at not less than face value and accrued interest ’ In the estate of John P. Baker, the 8 administrator was authorized to as--1 sign - mortgage and notes for cash at g not less than face value and accured i , interest thereon. e No inheritance tax was found due 1 in the estate of Wm. Stauffer. The appraiser was allowed $3 to be paid I according to the law. The estate of Nettie Schrock was r I redocketed that a mortgage might be i- ordered released. Inventory number one in the Georce ’ IW. Teeple estate was approved.. The executor was authorized to sell t.ia same property set out at private sale s for cash at not less tlym appraisement h and to report within thirty days. r Charlotte Friend wants a divorce S from Elmer E. Friend, and the custody p ' of their eleven months old child, r i Pearl J.. They were married July 31 I and lived together until November 30, I 1916. She says when her husband lett t0 ' her and the child they were dependent dt . upon friends for a home. The defen dant is now serving time in the state p r reformatory at Jecersonville, for con vvumlUueu uu 1 age

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, February 20,1917.

A COLONIAL TEA o )r ~ “ ' Colonial Program and Display of Colonial Relics n Will Mark Day. 0 , _ hAT MASONIC HOME hl Public Cordially Invited to Novel George Washing- ‘ ton Celebration. 0 | A colonial tea will be given by th? j I Auxiliary of the Order of Eastern Star at the Masonic Home Thursday evening, February 22. in honor of Geo. I - Washington’s birthday. Beginning at eight o'clock, the fol lowing program will be given: Presentation of George and Manila ; Washington. Instrumental Solo—lreta Butler. 1 Minut danced by six little colonial ! maids in costume —Lois Peterson, | Gretchen Smith. Dorothy Durkin, ; Mary Burk, Mary Suttles and Catherine Dorwin. Sjiring Wheel Song—Gladys Flanj ders, Ramona Smith. Reading—Lois Peterson. Group of Songs— Kathryn Egly Ty.i- --;! dall. ’ Reading—Della Sellemeyer. Good Night Song—Gretchen Smith. Light refreshments will be served. J A very interesting collection of colonial relics, with other antiquities, many of them more than a hundred years old, will be displayed in one part of ■ the assembly hall. Everybody is invited. Admission 1 ten cents. stTniarys’leads I - v In Township School Attendance for the Month of January. COLD AND SICKNESS i Cut Down the Lead of Other Townships—Month Ended January 19. The township schools and teachers deserve the highest commendation and credit for maintaining at- | tendance of 97 per cent or even high- ■ er for the month ending January 19. II The cold weather and sickness have ■ i tended to retard punctual attendance in school. For the past month St. Mary’s township is the county leader: Union township. Sylvia Beatty, 1 teacher, per cent as attendance 98; averade daily. 13. Root—Bessie Wilder, teacher, at tendance. 97; average daily, 20. Kirkland —Merle Poling, tgacher, i attendance. 98; average daily, 36: . Lydia Bieneke, teacher, attendance. 5 1 98; average dail, 21. Washington—Ruth Parrish, teacher. . atendance, 98; average daily, 16; Zelna Stevens, teacher, attendance. I 97; average daily. 19. t St. Mary’s—Ben Teeple, teacher, at- - tendance, 99.5; average daily, 10: i Mary Ray. teacher, attendance, 98; I average dtfily. 24; Fannie Cowan. i teacher, attendance 97: average I daily 22; Lucile White, teacher, at ’ i tendance, 98; average daily, 10; Job t Champer, teacher, attendance 98; I average daily, 27; Henry Crownover, teacher, attendance. 98; average daily, 33; Gladys McMillen, teacher, 3 1 attendance 99; average daily, 31, ' I Ralph Fuller, teacher, attendance I 100; average daily 22; Mary McCulJ lough, teacher, attendance, 98.2; av- , erage daily 19. Blue Creek—Otto Huffman, teacher, attendance-. 97.2; average daily 31. Monroe —David Depp, teacher attend- ' iince, 98; average daily 31; Clifton Striker, teacher, attendance 97; avg I erage daily 31; Arman J. Hirschy, y i teacher, attendance 97; average I daily 35; W. H. Oliver, teacher, atI tendance 99; average daily 37; Clyde ( Hendricks, teacher, attendance, 99; average daily, 19; Bernice Ray, teacher; attendance. 98; average daily 40. * French —Frances Zerkle, teacher, at- ‘ tendance, 97; average daily 19; Mary p I Laughlin, teacher, attendance, 98; 1 average daily 14. ”, Hartford—Joe F. Haberger, t«eicli-

I I er, attendance, 97; average daily I'D): D. E. Opliger, teacher, attend ’ ance, 98; average daily 29; LeOt.t Bailey, teacher, atendance, 97; aver age daily 11; Minnie Auer, teacher I attendance. 98.6; average daily, 40 I Kenneth Reiff, teacher, attendance 99; average daily 33; Inez Engle 'teacher, attendance,97; average dally 24; A. M. Stauffer, teacher, attend 'ance. 97; average daily 28. , Wabash Harry Huffman, teacher J I attendance. 97; average daily. 41; Da 1 vid Bixler, teacher, attendance. 98; average daily 42; Edna Mesel, teach | er, attendance, 97; average daily, 30; Leland Buckmaster, teacher, attend ance. 98; average daily 23. Jefferson Ada Ktechum, teacher attendance. 98; average daily 23; Ray Duff, teacher, attendance 98; average ? daily 26. n E. S. CHRISTEN, County Supt. : HOSTS TO LADIES — Decatur Rotarv Club EnI tertained Wives and Sweethearts. JAT MASONIC HALL Banquet and Minstrel—An Enjoyable Evening— Were Rotating. 1 The wives and sweethearts of the 1 members of the Decatur Rotary club • I were accorded an entertainment last evening by the men at the Masonic hall and we must say that it was one of the most enjoyable and pleasant litfl tie affairs now on record. Maybe the ladies will agree. The ladies r seemed happy, and the men were esj pecially happy, anyway, for it seemI ed as if every lady present was enI joying herself to her heart’s content. I and that atone was surely worth the ' efforts and untiring practice it took to make the event as I possible. ■; ’At 6:30 o'clock the banquet was I served in the dining room, the Eastern I S;ar ladies being in charge, and one I that could not be duplicated by anyone, except them. The menu consisted of grape fruit, smothered chicken, mashed potatoes and delicI ious gravy, creamed peas, salad, coffee and fruit cake dessert. It was a three-course affair. The tables were neatly covered, some seating four and a few, eight. It is the custom at ali Rotary functions to offer a blessing before the dinner. Mr. Ci E. Bell was selected to say the prayer. After the feast an hour was spent in conversation while Dr. Fred Patterson was directing and getting his . cast ready for the surprise of the evening. We say* surprise, because it was unanimously agreed by the men at one of the regular meetings not to tell their wives and especially not to say anything to their sweethearts what kind of an entertainment would be staged, and we'll bet our stack ; that not a man revealed the secret, | even in his dreams. The party then assembled in the ball room, whene an artistic setting was arranged for the minstrel show, as it turned out to be. Dr. Patterson. who presided as the monitor, introduced his minstrel company. Os car Lankenau, Jesse Sellemeyer. Hugh Hite and Carl Pumphrey were the colored end men. Avon Burk repre- • sented Mike-de-Mike of Clarke coyn . ty, Ireland, while Dr. S. P. Hoffman represented the “Kaiser's” family physician, and. Albert Sellemeyer was director of the “symphony” orches- > tra. The end men made it miserable for the men in front with their > throwing of jokes. “Mike-de-Mike" gave an Irish dialogue, while the German specialist, Dr. Hoffman, gave > the reading of the conversation going over the first telephone wires. Real musical selections on the pi- ;! ano, saxophone, trombone and vocal . | solos were given by Jesse and Albert . | Sellemeyer, Dr. Patterson and Hugh Hite. Last, but not least, came the , mock mind reading contest. Hugh Hite was the master mind reader and . as he sat blindfolded on the stage, 1 Dr. Patterson marched through the . crowd and seeing a pin on a man’s coat, or a bouquet of flowers on one e of the ladies, would ask where he or ;. i she got the Ipin or flowers, and then B would ask the mind reader what he ; was pointing at. Os course he would !• answer the article in question. The 1. same mind reading contest was con [. ducted in the way of playing any y piece of music, that one might select • as their favorite composition. Jesse Sellemeyer sat at the piano and pull 1- (Uontlnuea on Paga zj

: FOOD {RIOTING r- —— — r, 1; Five Hundred Women in New York Riot When Food Prices Raise. —x / POLICE POWERLESS ' Upset, Raid and Burn Carts —Peddlers Seek Safety r. Behind Doors. y _ e (United Press Service) New York, Feb. 20—(Special to the Daily Democrat) —Demanding immeI diate action for release from the hith k cost of foodstuffs more than five bun- " dred women swept down upon the city I hall today following rioting in three of New Yorks' congested tenement ■ districts. Push carts were stripped, overturned and burned by frantic women. On Long Island the market was wrecked and dealers-hid behind loek--led doors. Police battled to restore 'order. The rioting followed a sudden I jump in the prices of onions and pota--1 toes. I In the Brownsville section and on I the east side section of Manhattan ' there were food riots almost as serious. The trouble was started In Williams I burg when a woman unable to pay the ? price demanded for onions put her } shoulder to the pushcart and tipped it- ( over. In a moment hundreds of >vo-i . men were on their knees scrambling 1 » for the onions and potatoes. The fight for food spread and soon . ? other carts were in the streets atm t the peddlers fleeing. Kerosene was thrown’on some of the carts and in, ■ some instances they were set on fire. ABOOf THE SICK —; Mrs.‘Emil Capparet Operat-. ed Upon at Lutheran Hospital Today. __ MRS. WILL WORDEN A Patient for Enlargement of Spleen — Frances Amrine Very Low. Dr. Elizabeth Burns returned on the 1:05 train from Fort Wayne, where she accompanied two patients to the Lutheran hospital yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Emil Cappaert was operated upon this morning for appendicitits, adhesions of the bowels and a cystic tumor. She is getting along well. Her father, John Barrone, also accompanied her there. Mrs. William Worden was tlie other I patient. Examination showed that! the enlargement of the spleen, from) ' which she is suffering, is unopera-! tive, owing to the over-supply ot red • • corpuscles in the blood, resulting • : from the enlargement of the spleen. I • It is thought she can be treated et’-1 fectively by X-ray thus prolonging her life. Ralph Amrine received word this morning of the serious condition of his niece, Frances Amrine, aged fourteen, daughter of Harry Amrine, former editor of the Decatur Times. The little girl, who makes her home , . with her father’s relatives pt De-! Graff, Ohio, was taken to Cincinnati, Ohio, for a month, where she was 1 placed under the care of a specialist, ' later returning to DeGraff. The specialist made a trip to DeGraff last I j Saturday and pronounced that there t ! was no hope for her. She is suffering from tuberculosis of the lungs. I a s! Miss Clara Bieberich went to Fort II Wayne this morning to have iter arm. 1 ) which Was recently operated upon, ! dressed. B i # B I > Mrs, IT. E. Cress went to Fort p ! Wayne this morning to call on her ~! niece, Mrs. Mary Peckham Hevel, of n ! Sturgis, Mich., formerly of near Mone j roeville. Mrs. Hevel is in the Lu- !! theran hospital recovering from an e | operation. >• i Mrs. John Haley of Kalamazoo and! > Miss Geraldine Baker of Howe re- *• turned homo yesterday afternoon on c the 3;22 train after a - visit here witli their uncle. C. R. Hammell, who is I at the point of death. * 1 •

) DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS AT REX. J Again we have IXmgln? Fairbanki fn a new mood, He is here present ed in straight drama, in something nt j terly different from anything li which he has yet appeared. "Tht Half Breed” Is an adaptation of Brei Hart's story and is therefore laid ii the California frontier days. Then are spl»;iidid panoramas, 'colorful scenes of frontier life in two smal ) villages, and. particularly, lotatiom among the giant red-wood trees which are both beautiful and impres s «ve Finally, a forest fire is staged and it is excellent in realism. Kbmt remarkable night photography is also presented. See this picture ami von will Understand why Fairbanks’ sal ary Is $15,1)00 per week. A MOVIE ACTOR If Geo. Yake Star in Real Mot vie Drama in Ft. Wayne —Hears Bed Moving. CLINK OF MONEY Finds Its Hiding Place— Goes Out for Good Time i Arrested. A man giving his name as George , Yake. of Decatur, is a movie star in an up-to-date drama in real life if! Fort Wayne, according to the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. He rent 'd iroom; he heard bed move; the (link of money; he waits; he investigates; finds cash; goes out for good tinJe; returns to room; is arrested; confesses to tlveft. etc. The Joural-Ga-zette says in detail: “George Yake, who says he is front Decatur, visited the city Sunday. He rented a room from Mrs. Sarah Campbell. 230 East Columbia street. I That evening .early, he was in his I room. -• "Through the wall he heard beds ; being moved and the sound of silver dollars. Then the beds moved back. Mrs. Campbell and a friend went out. "At’tty a while they returned. Two pocketbooks minus about sl9 were on the dresser. Yake was gone. “George called upon a young wo[man friend. They went to a picture’ i show. He did not care about th ■ I price and took the best seats in the house. He had plenty of gioney. i Knowing that one of these things i which is ‘being done in the city.' he I and liis girl had an after-theater] party which the society reporter failed to mention. “Monday morning he bought a pair of shoes, some socks, a new neck-tie, which was to be worn Monday night when George should again ctrll upon ‘her.’ “As this is being written she prob-. ! ably is waiting. But George will not see her. He is in a cell at police headquarters though she does not know it. "Detective Sergeant Walter Irai mel is responsible for “No. 3’ being 1 occupied by George. This officer w v c,3 I detailed on the case when Mrs. j Campbell reported the facts. She laid emphasis on the new roomer, the | going away from home, where pocketI books had been hidden behind the i bed. her return and finding empty purses. "Immel located Yake and took him to police headquarters. Soon a confession ca*ne George said he heard the moving of beds, followed by the clink of 4he dollars. He was suspicious right away. He visited Mrs. Campbell’s room after her departure. He. too. moved the beds. His guess las to the significance ot’ the sotfhds was correct. -Cifsh was hidden be hincVkhe beds. He took it, he con fessed. The rest of the story is printed above.” G. A. R .TO BE GUESTS. ", The G. A. R. will be the guests of the Monmouth schools Thursday alt ernoon at a patriotic celebration giv. en in honor of George Washington s birthday anniversary. This will be ' given by the students of the school. of which Lawrence Speller and Miss Helen Conner are teachers. The • members of the G. A. R. will go out on the 11:30 car and the program will 1 begin promptly at 12 o’clock. A flue . time is expected. , — — -■ - POSTOFFICE TO CLOSE 1 On George Washington’s birthday a national holiday, Thursday, ‘the postoffice will be open only from eight to nine a. m. There will b? | one city delivery and none on the | rural routes. »

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. YEGGS FORCE THE CREAMERY SAFE LEAVING CLUES ’e il 11 Bunglesome Job at MartinKlepper Creamery Will a 1 Likely Cause Arrest o I ~101-’ THE TWO THI’GS Got $25 in Cash and Demolished SSOO Worth of Equipment to Get it. Two local yeggs are facing a sentence of from ten to twenty years for burglary today as a result of leaving a dozen plain clues to their identity when they robbed the Marr tin-Klepper creamery last night. The job was exquisitely bungled. Entrance was gained through a sky-light and the office door was - forced. The two would-be yeggs carried the safe into the cooler where Jby using an axa and a brake-shoe key they pried and hammered it open. They got about $25 in cur- ' rency from the safe. It is a fire- . proof affair and not intended for bur(l glary resistance. The cash register was demolished. The entire front was c-avetl in with the axe and the small change in it taken. The immense wealth .the pair got from the safe caused them to overlook six cents, in’pennies. The discovery of the robbery was made by the delivery truck driver when he got on the job this morning > He saw the cash register lying out in the yard for the first, and making • a quick investigation found that the ypggs had performed a little real labor inside, when they tarried ;he " safe fifty feet to the cooler. He called the police and the factory management. The police immediately went over the ground, finding several clues of value.. People out late last night saw several local people, who would in a 1 pineb do a job of this kind, prowling about. Their arrest is expected any moment. The work was performed In a bun gfesome manner, plenty of noise must I have been made, but the thjck walls of the cooler deadened the sounds. I It is believed that both the cash regj ister and the safe were broken into . , within the coo'ler. and later the cash register was carried out into the yard. Why this was done is mysterious, but ,is in a direct line with some of the Other actions the thieves clearly took. They were'scared all the time, is is evident. They worked fast, but at that it required considerable time to break the safe with an axe. -This is the second roldiery of this firm within three months; the Sam Hite gro< ery has stood for three breaks, the Bert Hunsicker groeery has had a sevent/dollar experience, and 'he west end has history galore cf similar jobs. However, the first creamery job” was obviously a pro- . fessional one. but the latter- tie.er. Chief of Police Melchi found two different sets of tracks in the soft earth near one of the walls of the I I factory. He is having the tra< ks investigated. Measurements were takI eu and will be compared with those , of the suspects when arrested. A change of shoes willgpot do much gpttd. a ■ the important phases ol the clu ■ left here will remain with the .'man who ntftde them indll drwth, . ' Sim e the " former robbery the . - creamery management has not kept much negotiable paper at the ti< . tory. Banking is done every day. and to this fact may be attributed their small loss. However, their greatest damage lies in the destruction of the three hundred dollar cash register, and the two hundred dollan safe. Sheriff Green. Deputy .Jacobs. Chief <>f Police Melchi and other police officers are working hard on the robbery with very fair chances of getj ting good results. ATTEND FUNERAL TODAY. 1 Mrs. J. M Miller. Mr. and Mrs Peter Amspaugh, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Archbold. Mrs William I)arwe< liter. Mix and Mrs. Jason Archbold. Mrs. IS. E. Shamp. Mrs. S. Fa Hite. Mrs. I Tom Mterryman wore among those from herd who wt>ut to Fort Wayne this morning to altend the funeral I I Mr. and Mrs, Samuel Paulison. The greater numbei' of the above- ’ named are double cousins of the deI ceased.