Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 98, Decatur, Adams County, 26 April 1917 — Page 2

I DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company JOHN H. HELLER President ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Secretary Subscription Rates. Per Week., by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier >5.00 Per Month, by mail 26 cents Per Year, by mail 13.00 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the Postoffice in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. It will help a lot if we build a new school house and tile other propositi buildings in Decatur. la is ke >p things moving. Tile per ventage of men su<-<« ■- fully passing the examination in this city is certainly most pleasing. The average over the state has been about sixty per cent while here the average tip to noon was about eighty per cent. It goes to show that if you want anv thing good, come to Adams county. All but two of the Indiana delegation for congressmen, will it is b•lieved vote fur the registry conscription hill. These two are Barnhart of the thirteenth and Krauss of the eleventh, who have joined Champ ('lark in his fight against the measure according to press dispatches. We doubt their wisdom though we belie'e in their sincerity. Monday’, May 7th. has been pr > claimed by Governor Goodrich, at l.ifayette Day in Indiana and will e celebrated as in tril ute to the great French soldier who championed the cause of liberty in two hemispheres. On the day stated the people of Indiana. children- and grown-ups. are r quested to make a special effort to aid the children of France. “How does the garden grow?' (T course it isn't ( limbing by inches lil e it will after a few warm days but ju. t the same its coming and coming fit There is plenty of time in which to riant, that is there is a couple of weeks yet. The main thing is that you ought to do it for your own go <1 and for the good of your country Don't be the only one in your neigi. borhood without a garden. Though we realize tiiat the cost of materials an- high this year, we maintain that business should and will proceed nevertheless. No greater Injury could be worked against the go’ernment than to cease operation, -i fact it would be a siHy and unreasonable proceedure. Never in the history of this nation has then been a greater demand for wilding, for improvements. for going ahead, we are sure that the community which waits for lower prices, will sleep on* th or

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’ opportunity to out class those w.to ■ hustle and build and keep a going. The conscription bill will pass congress tomorrow by a majority '-t ( about seventy voles, according to pre dictions today, though there has be n ' u sin-nous fight against it. We believe it ought to pass. The war is a serious business and one Hint ougl.t i , to be 'entered into in a most sei huts i method. Every man of fighting age 1 should, we believe register and it hit country calls him. should respond 1 This puts every body on an equal and fair basis and gives Unde Sam \:ii ’ army of millions if he needs it. '1 'ie advice of the men from England. France and other European countries that this will save time and trouble is worthy cousiderat . lor they have had experience. G■ ' mat " plan ot tiring soldiers is witho,.. i. abt iisurpassed and is so complete that t » oppose it with any thing but simi'ar proceedure is foolish. American gunners still hold first rank among the sea lighters ot the world. They have long enjoyed this distinction and Captain Rice, of the American steamship Mongolia, arr ving in London, yesterday, reported a new achievement, on April 13th his ship met a German submarine, sighting the U-boat at a distance of IJiIM yards, just as a shell was fired at the Mongolia, tilts being evidenced by the oil on the water. Going at full speed the Mongolia gunners picked off the U-boat periscope "and sinking the sub marine, proceeded on their way -n safety. A hundred and forty-two years before to the very day and almost to the hour, the first shot of the revolution rang oui at Lexington. At that time we fought and won a batti ■ for freedom. And now we are again engaged in a death struggle with autocracy. American gunners and Ann rican soldiers will prove their ability to fight as men and the shot from the Mongolia was but a sample of the work that may be ex]>e( ted from our forces. That we < art help in many ways is assured. «! KXTC OEOSSWBSSJ JE-CiSKSSOOMC.' 9 j DOINGS IN SOCIETY ! WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Thursday. Ic-Nick Club .Marie Gass. Evangelical Aid—Miss Eliza Spangler. Birthday Club —Mr. and Mrs. Harry Helm. I. O. O. F. Anniversary Supper a-id Program—l. O. O. F. Hall. Friday Pocahontas Needle Club. Mite Society-,-Mrs. J. O. Sellemey r. Zion Lutheran Aid — At school house. W. R. C. Special Meeting—2 p. m. Saturday. Tri Kappas Pastry Sale—Gas Office. There is no use in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument availably with an East wind

> Is to put on your overcoat. Lowell. Mrs. Diin Vail left yesterday afternoon for Fort Wayne tu spend the i week-end witn Mrs. Charles Loeb. The Tri Kappas will hold a |aisliy 1 sale Saturday at the gas office. The proceeds will go to tin Red Cross i work. Mi and Mrs. Eli Bierie entertained ’ Mr. ami Mrs Harry Meshberger and son. of Linn Grove. Dr. and Mrs. Sterling Hoffman and son, of Decatur, Air. and .Mrs Levi Todd, of Ft. Wayne aud Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Ellenberger last Sunday at their home on West Ma I street Berm Witness. The Willing Helpers' Class of the Reformed Sunday school held u purely social meeting with Mrs. John Be,-I last evening, the election of officers being postponed until the next meeting. About ten were in attendance. The St. Vincent de Paul society > made quilt blocks and sewed bus ly yesterday afternoon, when Mrs. John S. Colchin and Mrs. Mary Wemhoff entertained them at the Colchin home. The society announces the at its next meeting it will be pleaseu to do plain sewing at reasonable prices. Miss Agnes Kohue at tended a dame in Fort Wayne last evening. Misses Esther and Hilda Koenematin. of Hoagland, arrived this I afternoon to attend the Moose dance this evening and to be the guests of friends here. Misses Ida .Gunsen anti Marie Boese were at Monroe last evening where they attended the reception given by the Monroe, seniors for their friends and relatives. They were the guests of Miss Miriam Thomas. The recem tion was given in the high school auditorium. The commencement will lie this evening. Miss Marie Gass will entertain the Ic-Nick club this evening. VOTEmRMY' BILL ~ TO COME SATURDAY (Continued from Page One) Wilson, to start building the 1.000 fa -t wooden ships to bridge the Atlantis' and supply our European allies with food despite the submarine menace. Congressional committees and Secretary of Agriculture Houston sliced ed up national food production, conservation and transportatiqn arrangements so that a steady stream of foodstuffs and all supplies may lie kept pouring into the holds of these vessels from the nation's producing centers. Londod. April 26 —(Special to Dally Democrat) —Whether the American armed liner Mongolia sunk a German submarine April 19 rested today upon belief of her captain and the navylieutenant in charge of tier gur.<* that from a point a thousand yards distant, they had seen pieces of the U-boats periscope flying into t)ie air and afterwards observed oil on tlie surface of th'' water. Considerable skepticism was manifested here today as to the ability of observers to detect such a “hit" at 1 this distance. Instances are rare, it I was said, when it could lie estaWis'i-| ed that a single shot fired at a fari't| the small siz* of a submarin periscope! registered a bit. The story told by Captain Rice and confirmed by the navy lieutenant to-1 day. however, aroused enthusiasm I aiuotig members of the American col-1 ony here and the frankly expressed I ho]H> in British naval circles that the shot had found lodgment as the two l Americans believed. British naval officers have had vast! admiration for the excellence of the guns which the American liners ire armed and they have great respect for American marksmanship. Therefore they were pulling for some offi-i cial confirmation of the Mongolia's report. London. Apr. 26—(Special to Daily Democrat! —Germany is now suffer ing her most appalling losses of the war in the desperate endeavors of her army stall to stop the British drive by sheer weight of human masses opposing it. North of the Searpe river today where the British fought ahead almost inch by inch in the face of great masses of men the carnage was greater than that sufferled by the enemy since the war started.' Front dispatches today carried the idea that tin- Germans, realizing no

trench works could stand against the levelling tire of the British artillery, were seeking to make a wall of living human beings against the ad vauces Into the closely packed troops opposing, the British tire did terrific work. Thousands of mangled bodies are tiling over the battlefield, along the Searpe. mostly of Germans. The British losses have been exceedingly low, considering the ferocity of the fighting. That tlie terrible niortullty of the German troops is undermining their moral is apparent by statements of prisoners. Tlie German troops all of them picked divisions are literally driven into the lighting line now. Those who survive the deadly accuracy of the Britisli artillery tire and the pounding of the British infantry attacks are exceedingly glad to be taken prisoner. Today it appealed that the British and the enemy were deadlocked to the north of the Searpe. Tlie drive toward Iktual along this line was being opposed with the Germans' resources. To tlie south, however, the British pressure could not be resisted and they were slowly moving forward. THE MASTER PASSION It's a fascinating story o fa beautiful woman’s rise and fall. Disillisioament brings regeneration and the triumph of a mother's love. Supporting Miss Trunnelle and Robert Conness is a cast ot exceptional excellence. including such favorites as Richard Tucker, Helen Strickland. Bigelow Cooper. Raymond McKee and Olive Wright. Don’t fail to see this at the Crystal theatre tonight. THANK Mr. and Mrs. Janies Wat’s express their sincere thanks to the donors of the tornado relief fund, for the che k sent them by the committee on distribution. HERE u a remedy that wiu cure moat aU akin ai4 acalp troubles. Eczema, Barbers Itcb, Itch. Cutr and Sores. Why waste time and money when B B. Ointment is an ointment of real merit? Asi your druggist, if not bandied send 50 cents to Lie B B. Ointment Co., 217 Monroe strew pecatur, Indian* ♦ NOTARIES PUBLIC ♦ ♦ DAILY DEMOCRAT OFFICE ♦ ♦ — ♦ ♦ License Applications. Affi- * ♦ davits. Certifications, etc. * ++++++++ + •!• + + ♦ + + GET READY NOW + + * To file your * + MORTGAGE EXEMPTION + + Let me do it for you ♦; + ALLEN F. STALTER + ♦ At County Auditor’s Office + 1 ++++++♦ + + + + + + ♦ ~! Official Time Table of Decatur Railroads The Reliable Schedules GRAM) RAPIDS A INDIANA. The <i. R. A 1. Road—’Phone No. P PaaMcnger Motion mwl Freight House, Monroe nnd Seventh St«. Southbound. No. 4. Daily 1 sSS A. M. No. 12. Exrrpt >tindny.. 7st»3 A. M. No. 2. Suixlsv I P. Al. Ao. Sunday only <1:10 P. M. Northbound. No. 5. Daily 13:53 A. M. No. 11. Daily tlhrounh to .Mackinaw City) A. M. No. 3, Except Sunday 3:22 P. M. . H. 1.. MERRY, Agent. — FORT WAYNE AND DECATLR TRACTION LINE. Effective April 17. 1017. I Leave Druntiir Leave Ft. Wayne s:to a. m. T’.OO a. m. 7:<K» a. hi. s:3<» a. tn. S;3O a . in. 1O;OO a. in. 10:00 n. in. 11:30 a. in. 1 I s3O ti. ni. 1 :OO p. nt. I :IM» p. in. 2:30 p. ui. 2:30 p. m. 4:00 p. in. 4:00 p. in. 3:30 p. in. 7:00 p. in. S:3O p. in. 10:00 p, «H. 11:05 p. in. Car every hour and a half. Running time 1 hour aud 5 I nilMiitrw. x Freight ear leave.* Drmtnr at I 7:00 a. in. and leave* Fort AA ay ar nt 12 in., arriving In Decatur at 2:00. HOVIFK KI 111.. <i. P. A F. A. | TOI.BnO, IST. !.<»! IS A WKSTERN The ••('b.aer Itoad—T’lwine 21 ' PaMMcnger and Freight Station, t South YA iurhrMtrr Street. Went bound. I No. 3. Dully 10:25 A. No. 5. Daily 9:33 P. M. No. 21. lam'ul Freight, carries pn*« McugerM, Daily except Sunday ... . 10:53 A. M. Eaat Bound. No. «. Dally 1:50 A. M. No. 4. Daily 7:02 P. M. .No. 22, Local Freight, daily except Sunday. rarricM paM»en- ; grra .?.... 10:35 A. Bf. 11. .1. THOMPSON, Agent. CHK AGO A ERIE K AILKOAD. The Erie Road, ’Phone 36. PaMMengrr Station mid Freight llouMe, South AA In cheat er Street. Eant bound. No. M. Daily 3;5» A. M. No. 22«. Except Sunday .. 1:16 P. M. Ao. 4. Daily 3:13 P. M. AA cwt bound. No. 7, Dally 2:30 A. M. No. 227. Evcvpt Sunday 10:16 A. M. No. 3, Dally 12:40 P. M. O. 11. ODELL, Agent.

NOT H i: OF ADAIIMST’R ATOH’S *A I E OF Hi: A I ESTATE. In Ui* nuitler of th# cstntr of John h M* vri dvi viiMcd. No luJJ. Noli # Im heirbv given that, by I*l< Os an Older ol tlie Atlainn vhauil court ot Ada ■ Stunt ■ Nt«t< 1 ’ dlanti, the undri Migned, Edward \ Ehinu*» um ailnihiiMtiator of the vmlal< ot John il Meyer, de* vaaed. will offer fol wale, at private Male, for not h>MM than tl«e appralMeineiil. at the la« <l9l* v *»r J <’ Sutton and II B Hell* I, over Ohl A*lama County hank. in tiiv City ”f l»v*atur. Indiana, on Saturday, May 20, 1017, between (he hour* of ten u’clo* k a. iu .inti tin *•• *• *d*»' k p nk. *»f *aid «i.n the following dv** ril»ud real vntatv situated in AdaniM County, Stale ot Indiana, to-wit: lnl**t number live hundred ninety**nr <.'»*i|) In herkv*’ and BreinerkaiQp'x mul»*livlmloii of out! »l numbei one hundred and fifty-Me\en <!*»•> ami the Moiitli part of outlet number one liiuidr. ,1 tifty-right ilt'S) tn Jrowpll ('i.ihl's wrHtvrn aUilitlcn I" th. - town, now illy, of liei-utur. liHllann, a* the Hain,- Is on Un- revoi'deil nlat of aai<l nulallvlsi-'ii. .Said lint 'stall will be s"bi In' "J all li'-lis, <-\.-(-|>l tnxea for »Var ll'li. payable, Ifltt. wliteli taxe. will ussuiiK- and agi'-e to pay. If said real estate is not sold hn said day. It will hl- offered for sale from dav to day thereafter until sold. Terms of r,ale: One-third lash; onethird in nine months, and one-third in eighteen months I'vferred payments to hear interest at six per cent from date ot Sale and to be widened by mites of purchaser, providing for attorney f< < s for collection and waiving

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