Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 54, Decatur, Adams County, 5 March 1917 — Page 1

olume XV. Number 51.

PRESIDENT TAKES OATH SECOND TIME

(SOUNDS NEW DOCTRINE ■ OF NATIONAL IMPORT THOUSANDS CHEER SIMPLE CERE- ! MONY-NATION STILL AT PEACE BUT-TOUCHED ON ALL SIDES WITH I FLAMES OF WAR

(United Prps.« Sorvlee) I- (By Robert .1. Bender) Washington. 1). (Mar. .">— ■(Special to Dail) Democrat I— B'residenl Wilson sounded a ■hew doctrine of internationalism I and world peace in his inaugural address toda\; but in the same ■breath warned that the I nited ■States "ma) require a more im■nediate association" with the Vvar than mere aimed neutralBit). His principal plea lor world ■peace spoken before the thouHaands attending his second inM*uguration calls for: Limiting of world armament. Equal interest and responsiof all nations for mainruining peace. | Equality of all nations in all ■matters of rights or privilege. Destruction of the "armed ■balance of power." That all the world should ■support no other power than .the view that "government deprived all their just powers from Bthe consent of the governed." ■ Freedom of the seas equal to 11. [ Crushing of all attempts within a nation to organize or as■sisl a revolution against anothE er nation. The speech solemn!) suggest|ed that despite the war fires ■raging and despite the possibilEity that this nation must take a I broader hand still, that peace is ■ coming soon. “The shadows that now lie ■ dark upon our path will soon I be dispelled." the president de- | dared. “Armed neutrality is our [stand." he said, "yet this may I not suffice. W e may even be I drawn on by circumstances, not Iby our own purposes or desires, to a more active assertion I of our rights as we see them I and a more immediate associaI tion with the great struggle itI self." (By Carl Groat.) Washington. March : Special to I Daily Democrat (--Flank' d by th’U|M sands upon thousands of his countryI men. President Wilson was inducted I into his second term today The spirit ■ of the times harked back to the das.-. I of Lincoln. The thrill and solemnity ol war was ■ stamped upon the simple democratic I ceremony, though a strain of peace I ran through the proceedings too. It was just 12:47 o'clock when Wil- | son kissed the Bible completing the I oath which he had taken twice ' within two days. Standing bared head he accepted the solmen gift of a nation still at peace. | but touched on all sides by the Hames of war. Behind the blare of marttai music J the patriotic clamor ot the thron„, I the pomp and splendor ot marching i soldiers, the war note rang clear. Washington. 5.-(Special to Dail yDemocrat.l- President Utlson may send to the senate tomorrow names of all his present cabinet members. No changes will be made m he cabinet at this time. If this is decided

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in the tabinet names are expected io head a list of nominations which failed of action last session. However the cabinet matter was not completely decided upon just before the president took his inaugural oath. Paris. Mar. s—(Specials—(Special to Daily Democrat) —A violent German attack over a front of a mile and threequarters made in repeated assaults, was repulsed last night with heavy losses to the Germans, today’s official statement asserted. The attach which was in sufficient force to indicate a general offensive, was north of Verdun. The enemy's repeated attacks were made ineffective by the French fire. The German assaults came after prolonged artillery preparation. London. Mar. s—(Specials—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Bulgaria considers she must adopt in whole the attitude of her ally, Germany, and break with America, according to dispatches reaching here from semi-official Bulgarian press agencies. These advices declare the Bulgarian government will shortly send a note to the United States explaining Bulgaria’s ad herence to Germany and instructing the Bulgarian minister at Washington to demand his passports. Copenhagen. Mar. s—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Kaiser Wilhelm has issued a proclamation to the German empire announcing that the railway systems are now under military control, according to advices today from Berlin. (By Ed L. Keen) London, Mar. s—(Special to Daily Democrat) —For the first time today the British press and public seem to have arrived at a full understanding of the complex position which President Wilson faces because of the senate rules permitting (filibustering. Consequently comment both public and in the British newspapers reflected a more sympathetic attitude toward the American exeentive and his problems than at any time in recent weeks. On the other hand the "handful of senators" who blocked passage of the armed neutrality bill in the senate came in for universal execration for "thwarting the national will" as most of the newspapers expressed it. Washington, D. C„ Mar. s—(Specials—(Special to Daily Democrat)—President Wilson has asked the legal authorities of the government to give him an opinion within twenty-four hours as to whether or not he has the power to furnish navy armament for American merchantmen without special authorization by congress. Upon this decision depends whether the president will go ahead despite the senate’s failure to act on the armed neutrality measure. ATTEND LECTURE TONIGHT. All those who heard Bishop Spreng at the Evangelical church yesterdaywill be sure to want to hear him tonight in his lecture at 7:30 o’clock, on “The Moral and Religious Aspects of the World War.’ The bishop has had an opportunity to see things. His observations to the orient and European countries have been extensive. He knows and can tell it in an interesting manner. This lecture is given under the auspices of the Young People’s Alliance. The proceeds will go toward paying a part of their pledge for the new church. Admission will be free, but a silver offering will be taken.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday Evening, March 5, 1917.

TWO WEDDINGS J Earl Hoagland and Miss Nellie Fox Were Married Sunday Morning AT THE BRIDE’S HOME Widus Shifferly and Morris Brown Take Marriage Vows in Berne. Earl Hoagland, popular clerk at the Mills store for many years, son of Mrs. Amelia Hoagland of South Eleventh street, was married Sunday morning to Miss Nellie Eox at the home of her parents. Trustee and Mrs. Peter Eox, of French township. Hev. Sol Klopfenstein, pastor of the Missionary church oi which the bride is a member, officiated. Owing to the illness of a sister of Miss Eox. the wedding watt a very- quiet one. Mr. and Mrs. Hoagland are spending a few days at the Fox home, after which they will be at home at the Hoagland home in this city. The bride is very well known in this city, having made her home with Mr. and Mrs. Janies P. Haefling for several years. Both she and Mr. Hoagland attended the United Brethren church in this city, where both are active workers and popular among their host of acquaintances. For Nildus Leonta Shifferly and Mortis M. Brown. Wh proutinem young people of Decatur, the ceremony being solemnized at the Evangelical parsonage, Berne, Ind. They will reside on a farm near Convoy. O. Congratulations and best wishes are extended by their many friends. thFcMTnews Lewis Springer Asks a Divorce and $6,000 Alimony from Esther Springer. THE HOME FARM ijs in Her Name—He Says He Put Money and Labor Into it—Other Notes. I Lewis Springer has applied for a divorce from Esther Springer, demanding also $6,000 alimony to cover money and labor which he put into property whicit she has in her name. They were married in 18 — and lived together until Feb. 16,1916. He charges that she was cross and quaVrelsotne and when she became angry she often refused to speak to him for weeks at. a time. He says she threatened to shoot and poison him also. He owned property in Ohio when they were first married, iiut he says she induced him to dispose of it and buy her home farm of 120 acres in St. Mary’s township. He invested $3,000 in the land, which he says at that time was worth only about S4O an acre. Springer alleges that he toiled and labored for seventeen years, ditching and fencing and improving it, until it is now worth $l5O an acre. He says the farm was in his wife’s name and he asks for a judgment for the money lie put into the land, $3,000, and that much for his services on the place. Hooper & Lenhart and Peterson & Moran are his attorneys. The following were appointed by the court as members of the children’s board of guardians, to serve »lt iout compensation, as the law authorizing their appointment, provides: Simeon Fordyce, Dora Lower, three years; Anna J. Heller, Daniel K. Shac.kley, two years: Lewis Fruchte, Eliza J. Everett, one year. The case of Edward Shell vs. Herbert Warner, was reset for March 6. A judgment of $134.50 was rendered i for Ferdinand Yake, administrator of

the Washington Wolfe estate, again* Charles A. Wolfe and Henry Gunsett In the Frank Lord estate, answ, and cross complaint were filed h; Victoria Bixler. A marriage license was issued Sit urday afternoon to Clarence E*r Hoagland, clerk, born Nov. 14, 1893 sen of William Hoagland, to wed Nel lie Fox. lie i n June 6. 189.',. daughter cl Peter Fox, of French township. The trustees of the various town ships are reporting their dog lax funds to Auditor John Mosure t tclay. L. C. DeVoss is attorney for 11. W. Sholty who filed a suit against R,.y Wolford, Decatur Lumber company and Schafer Hardware company. <!• mantling SI,OOO on note and foreclosures. THIRTEEN CMS DESTROYED IN DERAILMENT Valuable Merchandise Lost in Wreck at Pleasant Mills Saturdy. NO TRAINMEN HURT Train Ran Eight Hundred Feet on Ties Before Piling Up and Burning. Damage, aggregating probably two hundred thousand dollars, was done when an extra west bound freight on the Clover Leaf jumped the track at. Pleasant Mills Saturday afternoon, piling up thirteen cars of merchandise' and two engines, all of which were I destroyed by fire. The wreck ocur-ed at 4:30 o'clock and is believed to have' been caused by a tender of the firs: locomotive, of the double-header, jumping the track. It is asserted that the train was running about thirty miles an hour when rounding the curve. It was a heavy train of merchandise and the scene of the wreck was fully eight hundred feet west of the point of derailment. To this fact is attributed the escape of the engine crews, who thus had time to jump. One engineer, that of the first engine, was scratched up when he landed on a bank of cinders. while his fireman was badly bruised, having skidded along the cinder siding for quite a distaSr-e. Aside from these minor injuries to the first engine crew, no others of the train < row were hurt. The fire which caused the destruction of the thirteen cars is beieved to have started from the demolished carload of matches, which, it is asserted, was next to the engine. This car ignited the whole of the wreckage, which was piled up in an indiscrimi i nate mass over the right of way. A portion of a carload of Goodrich Ford tires was saved, several boxes of books and some miscellaneous nu rchandise from the last car piled up,! but the majority of the freight was! burned. Among the destroyed goods: was a carload of toys, a carload ot j typewriters, several carloads of miscellaneous merchandise, a carload oflight hardware, of considerable value, and the ear of matches. The wreckage drew a large crowd from the surrounding country, the flames from the debris being visible for ten miles. More than two thousand people saw the wreckage burn. The frozen ground was thawed out for two hundred feet around the scene of the catastrophe and it was a mass of mud. The thirteen cars were piled up on both sides of the right of way within a distance of two hundred feet, one car piled up on another. The first engine turned half around and ploughed its nose into the frozen earth on one side of the tracks. The cab was demolished and a head blew out letting off the pressure of the boiler. The Other engine kept up but was derailed.

CAMP ORGANIZED Arthur 11. Miller, No. 52. is Name of New Organization of Veterans OF THE WAR OF 1898 .1. C. Burkhead First Commander—Col. Riggins Mustering Officer. Members of Company B of the old 160111 regiment which saw one year’s service in the Spanish-American wa*. yesterday completed the organization of the Arthur it. Miller cantp, No. 52. department of Indiana United Spanish War veterans. More titan twenty charter members attended the meeting which was held at the G. A. 11. hall in this city Col. "Bill” Higgins of Culver, junior vice commander of the department of Indiana, assisted by Ed C. Cook, did the mustering in. and the following were named as the first officers: Commander, J. C. Burkhead: senior vice commander, Roy Wolford: 'junior vice commander. Frank Pete: son; chaplain. John 1). Andrews: ad jutant Ed B. Macy; quartermaster. Will Noll; officer of the day, A. W. Tanvas: officer of guard. Omer H. Odell; trustees, Charles Kitson, J. I). Andrews and Alex Tanvas: historian. Ed P. Miller: surgeon, Perry G. Roe buck: sergeant major, James Buchanan; quartermaster sergeant, Chas. E. Omlort color sergeant. Jacob Ties.--: musician, Percy Williams. The camp is named after tlie late Sergeant Ar thur Miller, brother of Major Miller, and a popular member of Company B. The charter has been sent for and In? organizazl ion will he maintained. DEATH ENDS ALL Death of Mrs. John Wagoner of First Street Occurred Saturday Night. ■' ( THE FUNERAL TODAY 1 I At Evangelical Uhurch at 2 > O'clock—Burial in Maplewood Cemetery. t The death of Mrs. John Wagotte.-, j residing on First street, this city, pc- ■ curred Saturday afternoon at 4:30 1 o’clock, after five years of sufferiu; 1 from paralysis. For that length of ' time she lias been bedfast, the last ' year of iter illness being especially acute. She was a lifelong resident of this 1 county, having resided on a fa’tr ' south of the city until many years ago, when the family moved to Deca- 1 tur. Funeral services were held this aft ernoon at 2 o'clock from the Evangel ical church, Rev. J. H. Rilling in charge, with burial in tlie Maplewood cemetery. —_— a “TROUBLES OF A STOREKEEPER” A four-reel feature motion picture film will be presented for the first time at tlie library tomorrow night, before the members of the city business houses. ’Because of the special nature of the film salespeople and others employed in tlie stores of the City, have been invited to attend. This film, produced by the Essanay company for The National Cash Register company, of Dayton. Ohio, was secured by the secretary of the Business Men’s association. It will be accompanied by a lecturer to bring out the points of the film that are or special interest to merchants. The film, though but a few months old. has been shown before associations of merchants and business men from coast to coast and from the Canadian line to New Orleans. It tells the store of Mr. White, an unsuccessful grocery store keeper. As the Scenes of the picture pass, ti e reasons he is unsuccessful became clear.

EVANGELICAL CHURCH IS DEDICATED TO SERVICE

WITH ALL FLEDGES RAISED TO COVER INDEBTEDNESS-MODERN CHURCH MOST MEET REQUIREMENTS OF TNE TIMES SAYS THE BISHOP.

At the close of what was as nearly Ma perfect day" as is possible to be allotted mankind in his achievement after years of faithful, earnest endeavor, the keys of the $17,000 new First Evangelical church of this city, presented to the pastor by the ■trehitect, Ohcar Hoffman, in behalf of the building committee, were turned over by the Rev. J. H. Rilling to H. A. Furhman, president of the board of trustees in their behalf, and the church was formally declared completed and dedicated to the service of God. by the bishop. Rev. Spreng, la t evening. What made the day particularly one of rejoicing, because of the fact th t the greater spiritual freedom can be experienced in freedom from material indebtedness, was that more enough subscriptions and cash were pledged and given yesterday to m..11. 1 tip The existing indebtedness of $6,72’1 prior to tlie consummation of dc;li< ■-! tion. These are to be paid within; three years, al whicit time the c cmgregation expects to be wholly free from tlie debt. "It was a great day in Zion,” a-c • r,c of the faithful expressed it. and het? were many friends of the congfvga tion, members of other churches ,n this city and elsewhere who joine. with the pastor, the Rev. Rilling aidhis congregation in the rejoicing- ; The climax of the whole day cantoj at the close of his excellent sermon,! in which Bishop Spreng told of the pr ’ eminence of Christ in art. music. I':’erature, tlie world of ethics and : :t "your life and mine;” and that Christ not. only gave the best standard ever! given, but that He also gave tlie dynamic to live up to it. With the trustees, who include H. A. Fuhrman, president; Ed Macy. L. '. j Baumgartner, Henry Barkley and Orval Harruff, and tlie building comm it - tee. comprising Eugene Runyon, pre ident; Charles Hocker. H. A. Fuhr mann, Orval Harruff, Ed Macy, L. I. Baumgartner. Henry Barkley. J. I . Rilling. E. M. Schnitz, William V 1 Barnes. O L. Burgener, Mrs. Fi”d: Linn. Miss Anna Whines and tlie I; H. C. Fuhrman and S. C. Cram 1 r, i surrounding the altar, tlie dedication service was very impressive. As tie turned over the keys to tlie bishop, who in turn gave them to the true tees, Rev. Rilling said with grdbt fe<l ing, that he could not fully express his deep feeling to the noble men and women who had stood by him during the year's work. He said the struggle for the new church had meant a hard pull, but that they loved to do ha. I tilings and that he felt like buildin • another church. He spoke of th creating, first, of the sentiment for a new church; of some little opposition which soon melted away: of Ct hearty co-operation of all, and especially of his wife, Mrs. Rilling. wh< j helped him much by prayer, as well actual work: of tlie co-operation o. friends outside of the church, as weli as those of his own congregation, and the friendship of all the other pa tors in their labors. The impressive prayer, the reading of the dedication in its detail to all the offices of the church by the bishop, with the earnest responses of “Amen" by the congregation and pastor. as they realized the sacredness of the purpose of the now building and t‘s great part in the spiritual life of Her community--and the singing u "Praise God from Whom AH Ble ing E'low.” closed the dedication. Others Take Part. The bisho p.S. P. Spreng, delivered

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the principal sermon for all of the - three services, the morning, afternoon t and evening, but at each service lavmen and ministers from nearly all the other churches of the city took , part, while many from tlie congrega- - tions of the other churches were in * the audiences, making them union s?r- --' vices. The big day really opened witli the Sunday school, which conducted i s 1 edasses tor the* first time in the class • rooms, assignment having been made the previous Sunday. Tlie superintendent, L. L. Baumgartne r, was ’it charge and addresses were given by E. C. Bierie of Berne; Attorney D. B. Erwin, this city; and A. G. Burry of Fort Wayne, eac h of whom had a good message of congratulation and cheer. A special musical number was i vocal solo. "A Sabbath Prayer." by Mrs. Eugene Runyon. | Spreng’s morning sermon | was from tlie text. "I beseech Thee. J rhow me Thy glory." He spoke of the ways in which God is revealed to us - by intuition or by illustrations, by His works and by experience, be dwelling upon each. For the afternoon service, opening at 2:30 o'clock, there wen- present Rev Thornburg of tlie Methodist and Rev. Stolte of tlie Reformed. Rev. Harman of the t’nitc-d Brethren could ; not be present on account of illness. | The two first named gave short talks. [Rev. Thornburg .poke on the' beau.v ’ of churches, as tlie center of operaI tion of a c ity or community; of th? spirit of sacrifice 1 which they embedv, and of tlie fruitage of the sacrific e' ‘into whicit tlie builders’ children and I their children’s children enter at la st. I Rev. Stolte also touched upon the ,cicrificial spirit, tiring that we measure ' up to tlie sacrifices of our ancestors I as did Rev. Thornburg. H.• congratulated the congregation upon its splendid example' of their success to others. He mentioned that it should mean also, the dedication of every lite to ' God. Bishop Spreng’s afternoon address 1 was another masterpiece. He spoke | of the modern church and its necessity of meeting modern demands. He said that we should not modify our lb tit. ■ but that it is necessary t.» modify <>'ir . works. He stated that the church should be’ a social center. The acre of the hermit in religion is pm ': tint it is necessary for the church to go I out into Hie world and do its work. : All social forces should work from 1 the’ church as an operating center. I j lite modernly equipped church, -‘t- !1 lias this new church is. is a necessity ■ of the times’. This was also the trend ■ of thought given in the' address of Rev. W. Paul Marsh, of tlie Christian c hurch, in Ute evening service. Re v. j. C. Hanna, of the Presbyterli'n church, and Rev. F. G. Rogers, of the I Baptist, also spoke at the e vening service, touching on sacrifice, the small beginning from which great things grow, and congratulating the congregation on its work. These evening addresses we re' given at the' hour of the Young People’s Alliance, over which Dr. O. 1.. Burgener presided. Liberal Pledges. Special mention should be made c.f the generosity in pledges and subscriptions made yesterday to cover th<> amount of indebtedness existing on the church. Att interesting feature* of the morning service was the report 'read by the financial secretary. C. E. Hooker. This showed that the new church cost $16.71.0. of which amount $13,276 had been paid. Thtre i (Continued on Page 2.)