Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 104, Decatur, Adams County, 3 May 1917 — Page 1

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PLANNING FOB MEATLESS DAYS I Hotel and Restaurant Men in Conference Plan for Two Meatless Days. TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY Speaker Clark Came Forf ward to Fitfht Censorship Clause of Spy Bill. (United >rvss Service) Indianapolii Ind., May 3 t (Special to Itily Democrat)— Two meatles? days each week for hotels ant restaurants were proposed tod:j at a conference Between hott I managers and Food Commi lioner H. E. Barnard. The ns. as proposed, .would be To sday and Friday. No flesh woi d appear on the hotel menus hese days. Hotel nien were ah asked to eliminate all fancy >ods from the tables and see only simple foods, by Ba Hard. i Washingtoj l). ( May 3— (Special to Oily Democrat)— Speaker Clatl came forward as the leader | the tight against the censorshilclause in the administration Id bill when in debate in thfhouse this afternoon he dec red the clause to be a flat vioinon of the const!* I BBLETIN. Washingta. I). €., May 3— • (Special to laily Democrat) — The United tales will send 3,000 ambula es and 7.700 doctors and dr ers to France, the council of tional defense an- , nonneed to y. > The firs!of the units of 22 ambulance?md military men will leave thin three weeks. ■ This is ii addition to the six medical u s totalling about 1,000 medal men which will x be sent at pee to Great Britain. I ... The I rem commission here has requetJ that 200 American mediclmen be «ent over each monitor an indefinite period. 1| French and British medicilnd hospital organizations, itas said, are greatly deplete®wing to the fact that this vice suffers the heaviest lortality of any branch. r“hl(liaiiaqol May 3 (Special to Daily DemiAl- Greater production | anc If ducts was lit at the meeting of the Indiana coiltee on food production and con.-erlon this afternoon. In H report stltt- d t" the committsthe followilrecomtnendations were made. B’ Dairy anleeding stock should be retained ml- farm and not sold in the market! ■ Farmers |>uld grow more crops Which willlplant their pastures, during the (season so the milk pro-, duction wi it decrease at that time. | mid raise here hay for their live k, to take the place <4 grain food, I Indianar w" ’ < s l’ pc,al t 0 Dailv Dem t) Cot. Edwin F. Glenn conferred It Adjt. General Harry Smith toif egarding plans lor the mobilizatilf a Urge number of troops at Lt Benjamin Harrison. Col. Glen 111 be in charge of n< officers trig camp which will open on May 8 (By Will PhiidTSimms. Vnit Pre aft Correspondent) > With t ritish armies in the field. May 3-1 al to Gaily Democrat) In the diss just proceeding dawn •today. tl]ltlsh again dealt a blow lat the G as over a wide front both north atlath of the Scarperive At thiment of cabling, th' Brecon! i« "> p bat,le Ing satilrily for 'he British. Prisonel beginning to arrive and more Oft guns have been taken. U.. ■ Heavlting continues. I Sincelighting began on the 9th.. more til enemy divisions have been cited on this front aloneand ytltdenburg is desperately throwiTfresh units with pitiless orders lid or die. To tilth of Greenland hill a.id towardlsltoy. Cherisy and Hullo-

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court, report.-, to headtimtriers Indi eale tlie British have gained ground. At Gavrelle and lyios. the Prussia is lire counter attacking fi/reely. The I enemy is in a particular frenzy over British possession of these points because such a hold hampers the work I of destruction of Lens. That destruc- | tion is proceeding by day and by night I I The Hoches also fear for Douai anil the remaining portions of the SeigDied or Hindedburg lino which has a'ready been partly turned at Arras. (Unite,! Priss Service) London, May 3 (Special to Daily I Democrat) Whether Imperial Chan- . eollor von Bethmann-Hollweg is to make a peace proffer or not the Germi ll statesman was an outstanding figure in the European war news of today. Messages from Germany as to the peace speech were conflicting, some insisting he had deferred deliv- [ cry of the address, others that he would make announcement today as scheduled. But whether or not he talked, all, news from Germany reaching Den mark and Holland today indicated I that the chancellor today is facing his greatest crisis politically. He is under fire from the conservatives, who oppose electoral reforms; he Is i mistrusted hy the socialists because J he has not gone far enough in [ promise of reforms; he is blamed by other parties formal-administration • of the food control. Reports of a new peace offer from i Hollweg have crystallized this oppo-1 sition. The junkens and hig manufacturers fear Hollweg may try to announce Germanyfs willingness to make peace by returning the industrial sections of Belgium and France I she now holds. Hindenburg is being advanced by this class of Holiweg’s : enemies as his logical successor. (United Press Service) (By Carl Groat, United Press Staff ' Correspondent) Washington. D. C., May 3—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Means of | getting vast numbers of ships swept . [ pside practically all other governmental war topics today. Face to face with the grim realization that German submarines are eating into the world's tonnage alarmingly fast, the government prepared to push through congress at once its bib’ giving President Wilson a dictatorial power over ships and shipyards. , Food questions, serious as they still are; discussion of dispatch of troops to France —all these matters went by Uie board in the overwhelming problem of more shipping in order that j Germany may not triumph in her I plea to bring England to Jier knees. The government bill, practically | ready for definite action, proposes that the president, if necessary, can commandeer all shipyards, all ships ( and control the use of steel mills. 1 . : Government statistics showed that, 1 even its present program of turning [ out 200,00(1 tons of wooden ships a month is inadequate to keep pace with Germany’s now admittedly devastating U-boat toll Seventy-one German and Austrian | ships—of 551,000 tons —now interned i will be ready to augment the Ameri- i ■an merchant fleet within five, months, it was officially announced today, and it is assumed these will be put into service at once. Repairs are going forward rapidly on all vesI seis damaged by the Teutons before . seizure. As the government plans now 1 now stand, shipyards will be forced to grind out small wooden and steel vessels on a standardized plan at a rate far greater than ever before esI timated. The government has learned with a shock that many yards are accepti ing slow time contracts for vessels of alien ownership, sweeping aside patriotic requests for. perhaps, more lucrative business. Aside from official warnings of the seriousness of the submarine situation ' voiced by cabinet men for the i first time yesterday the shipping I board discloses that the whole'world's ship output the next four months cannot exceed one-fifth of the monthly j losses by torpedoing—if the present average of Prussian destruction con- | tmues. The concern evidenced by authorities followed conferences with allied commissioners and receipt of figures showing that Germany's U-boat har- ' vest is reaching far greater totals than perhaps even the Teutons themi selves had anticipated. The practical upshot of the official ' warnings, it is thought by many, will be to shunt aside the clamor for ‘ sending troops to France immediate- ' ly and to force upon the nation the 5 realization that as Secretary Lane said, the war “will be fought on this 1 side of the Atlantic if we do not beat ■ the Germans to it.”

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Evening, May 3, 1917,

MALES IN LEAD Number of Males of School Age in County Exceeds That of the Females. REPORT IS MADE To County Superintendent —Complete Except for Town of Geneva. — Except for Geneva which has uot| yet reported. County School Supertn-j tendent E. S. Christen has the school) (numeration report completed. The report shows a preponderance iof male children of school age. The I total number of children in the townships is 4806, of wjiii-h 253 S are males r.nd 2268 females. The net loss over! last year is ninety-three. The total number in the townshins) | between the ages of fourteen and stall een. who may be excused from at-' ) tending school if they have employj ment certificates, is 795. The number) I in school is 1833 males; 1680 females.' | Tfte number of males regularly ern-l ployed is 712; females, 582. The number in Berne between the ages of fourteen and sixteen years is SO. The number of males In school is) 147; number of females 158. Number regularly employed is 32 males and tit females. The number of children or school age is 401. The number in Decatur, in school is j 507 males and 497 females. Numbsr! employed, 117 males and 56 females.) Number of school age is 1260. The enumeration reported by the, townships -and towns, showing thp loss or gain of each over last year, Is as follows: Blue Creek—336. loss 11. French —348, loss 11. Hartford —363, loss 16. Jefferson —340. gain 88. Kirkland —■ Monroe —776. loss 10. Preble —321, gain 5. Root—43B, gain 7. St. Marys—3s2, gain 5. Union—267, loss 5. Wabash —507. Washington —425. loss 5. Berne —401, loss 10. Decatur —1260. loss 15. DEATH Son of C. E. Hitesman. Former Decatur Man, Died of Typhoid Fever. A GENEVA MAN Wm. McCardle, Brother of Mrs. Clint Fisher, Dead —Mr. Armantrout. Relatives have received word of the) death of Richard, aged eight years. I son of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hitesman, nt the family home in Rainy River, Ontario, Canada. Death was due to ty-, phoid fever. Mrs. Hitesman was for-) merly Miss Fanny Elizabeth Pennington. and is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Pennington, of Fort Wayne.) formerly of Decatur. She is a sisterj of Will and Charles Pennington. The] Hitesmans were in business in this | city several years ago. Funeral services for Jacob Armantrout, 82. who was found dead in bed at his home east of Bryant, were held Wednesday. He was born in Jay county? May 21, 1835. He was married twice and both wives are dead. He is survived by the children, F. S. Armantrcut. of Geneva; Mrs. Lillian Whitman and Harry, of Bear creek township; Mrs. Nina Cotteral, of Muncie; Sherman Armantrout, MuYtcie; (Philip, at home, and Daisy Armantrout, of lima, Ohio. One brother and three sisters also survive. Funeral services for William McCardle, 70, Geneva resident, were held today at the J. R. Martz home west of Geneva. The deceased was a brother of Mi s. Clint Fisher, of this city. Death wis due to heart and kidney ailments. A son, Andrew, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was at his bedside when he passed away.

IHOME BEING REMODELED Mr. and Mrs. James Arnold have moved from their home, corner of Third and Jefferson streets, which •(•> I now being remodeled, into their other house, located just west and recently vacated by C. E .Brooks. They will live their until the remodeling is co npleted. The hoat, is being filled with a furnace and hardwood floors, will be redecorated and made thorotr/ly modern. The exterior is being stuccoed ami handsome new porc.lt' S> built. ATTENDS STATE CAMP Ed Macy has returned front Hammond where he attended the state |<anif( of Modern Woodmen, representi ing the local camp. The convention ) was in session one day. Delegates were named for the head camp to be ) held in Chicago in July. This will inI < hide the United Slates end Canadian districts. At the state meeting there i ! wore 110 delegates and state officers. ! FOR FINAL EVENT * ■ ■ . —.— Program for High School Commencement, Fridav, May 18, Complete. — THE CLASS ADDRESS To be Given by Prof. Wenner—Musical Numbers by Chorus and Orchestra. — The program has been arranged tor the Decatur high school commencement to be held at Bosse's opera , house, Friday evening. May 18. Prof, I , Wenner, of eastern Ohio, will deliver I' the main address, ana the program in full is as follows: Marclt “Militaire,” Schubert—Orchestra. America. Invocation—Rev. Fred F. Thornburg. “Lovely June,” Ardite —High School- ) Chorus. Commencement Address —Superin- 1 tendent W. E. Wenner. ’ “Humoreske,” Dvorak-Lampe—Or- 1 chestra. “The Mountebank’s Song”—High' 1 School Chorus. Presentation of Graduating Class—| ] Principal J. D. Sarig. Presentation of Diplomas—Superin- ' tendant M. F. Worthmann. “Minuet in G..” Beethoven —Orches-, i tra. Benediction —Rev. W. S. Mills. o ANOTHER FORD SOLD H. R. White may be seen driving around in a new Ford touring car, the' I delivery being made by the KalverI Noble Co., yesterday. Mr. White is I employed at the oil station at Preble. ILLNESS FATAL Mrs. Mary Liechty Nussbaum Passed Away Last j Night at Berne Home. ' j WAS ILL A YEAR ‘ Os Tuberculosis of Throat —Saturday Afternoon i ♦Funeral Will be Held. Mary Liechty Nussbaum, wife of Samuel Nussbaum, manager of the!' Berne Supply Co., died last evening at! 1 seven o'clock at the home at Berne, after a year's illness of tuberculosis I of the throat. Mrs. Nussbaum was nearly thirty ! seven years of age, having been born i July 27, 1880, near Bern, Switzerland, i When three years of age, she came with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Matbias Liechty to this country, settling northwest of Berne. The parents, six brothers and six sisters are living j ■ two brothers being deceased. The deceased was married February ’ 8, 1906, and the husband, with three children are greatly bereaved. Funeral services will be Saturday > afternoon at one o’clock from the , home; and at 1:30 from the Mennont ite church. Interment in the M. R. E. . cemetery.

SPLENDID EVENT ’ I 'I St. Agnes Sodality Makes $335 from Supper and Parcels Post Sale. HUNDREDS ATTEND T Proceeds Will be Used for Proposed New Church —Great Success. it meant much work for Miss Agnes Weber, president of the st. Agnes Sodality of the St. Marys Catholic church, and every one of (he other ; one hundred twenty-five members ! who were her able assistants, but the | society has, today, the sum of 1335 I more to contribute to the building fund of the proposed new church this being the proceeds of the big and successful social they gave last evening I at the K. of ('. hall. The workers prepared the fine lunch of sandwiches, potato salad, great, fine homemade cakes, brick ice cream, and the guests passing along the buffet, took what they wanted and passed on to the small tables grouped about the rooms for the supper, where they] had a fine social time until the parcels post sale at 7:30 o’clock. There were nearly two thousand parcels from all parts of the country and these were sold out in fifteen minutes, many of the several hundreds who thronged the' hall being unable to get any. Eggs, canned fruits and vegetables, cakes and pastries were numbered among the tilings sold in this way, as well as linens and more conventional things, making the purchases highly acceptable in this day of “high cost of living.” From the parcels, the society netted) $179; and the remainder of the $435 was derived from cigars, ice cream, cake, lunch and pieces sold. A fine centerpiece went to Father Seimetz; pillow slips to Mrs. W. A Kuebler, towels to Lawrence Vogle-. wede and Will Johns, and a hand painted illustrated motto to Mrs. I’. J.' Hyland. Much credit is due every one of the: officers and members of the several committees for their aid in making' the affair the success that it was, both: socially and financially. CALL IS GIVEN For Red Cross Meeting Tonight—The Organization to be Completed. AT THE MEETING At Central School House at 8 O’clock —All Interested Should Come. It is expected that the work of com-| pleting the local Red Cross organization will be done tonight. Chairman Dr. W. E. Smith has called a meeting! for eight o'clock this evening at the) central school building. Everyone in-i terested in Red Cross work is urged) to come. At this meeting tonight it will be de-) cided whether the local workers will i have a chapter of their own or wheth-) er they will become an auxiliary of the Fort Wayne chapter. The officers will also be elected. The nominating committee appointed some time ago will report and if a chapter is established, this report will undoubtedly be ratified. If. however an auxiliary Is formed, a different series of officers will be needed. o CLOVER LEAF TRAIN CHANGE Beginning Sunday, May 6, there will be a change in two trains on the Clover Leaf. West bound passenger, number 3 will leave here at 10:04 a. m., instead of 10:25; and ejstbound train | number 4, will leave here at 6:50 p. in., ! instead of 7:02 p. m. | o few more seed potatoes Tho committee still has a few seed 1 potatoes to give out to deserving people in reasonable quanitfies. If you need them call at the city hall at any time and get a share. These must be put out this week.

r GARY HAD BIG PARADE I One of the greatest patriotic < cl. brations held in (he state was tl.at : t [Gary, a city made up largely of alien * | population. The parade included 30,■OOO people and of this number 'lie Gary mills furnished about 12,000. I Tlie various lodges eaeli 'nrnished their quota und line or parade includ- ) ml more than 4.000 school children. I: w«s h wonderful showing and lurtber proof of the loyalty of men of every nationality to the stars and stripes. SOLICITORS TO GET BUSY. The official board of the Christian church met hist evening on business pertaining to the proposed new < building. Copies of the plans will bo [completed and work will begin at| '' once for the subscriptions to the| - building fund. The building may be • begun this fall. TO THE_COLORS Dale Hartman. Son of Prof. I and Mrs. H. A. Hartman, Enlists in Cavalry. — IS NOW A STUDENT Feelings of Parents Expressed in Following Well Written Poem. Dale Hartman, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Hartman, of Marion, 0., who is a student at Western Reserve college, Cleveland, O„ where he is assistant historian, has enlisted in the cavalry at college. , Prof. Hartiian was superintende.it ' of the Decatur schools before going to ' Marion, where he is superintendent, and Dale, who was quite a young boy when the family lived here, will be remembered by many. The feelings of tlie parents are well expressed in the following poem: I i “The Kid Has Gone To The Colors” | “THE KID has gone to the Colors And we don’t know what to say; [ The Kid we have loved and cuddled Stepped out for the Flag today. I We thought him a child, a baby With never a care at all. But his country called him man-size And the Kid has heard the call. ' i.JSSCr [ 1 • I j “HE PAUSED to watch the recruiting , Where, fired by the. fife and drum. ) I He bowed his head to Old Glory And thought that it whispered: “Come! ” ] The Kid. ix>t being a slacker, Stood forth with patrioic-joy [ Ti add his name to the roster And God. we’re proud of tlie boy! I “THE KID has gone to the Colors It seems but a little while Since he drilled a schoolboy army In a truly martial style. [ But now he’s a man. a soldier. And we lend him listening ear, | For his heart is a heart all loyal. Unscourged by the curse of fear. I “HIS DAD? when he told him.,shuddered. His mother—God bless her!—cried i Yet. blest with a mother-nature, j She wept with a mother-pride, j But he whose old shoulders straightened ■I Was Granddad—for rae’mory ran ' To years when he. too. a youngster Was changed by the Flag to a man!

' FREE SEED DISTRIBUTION. The Nation’ll Emergency Food Garden Commission e Ju- , n r which has been conducting a camot VX a'-hmgton. I). .. jn (he f oo() SU ppi y paign for mtj ’ « a,<l ® n ’' h 0< Decatur SIOO worth of KJ Sed? a "u lulenl Sq “"”’ feet These seeds are presented free of charge in apprecia--1 tinn of the deep interest manifested here in the movement. Th! eJI/hat AX 'arned over '».< »«»'>■ A««n. Overton, who Will have charge of the distribution, which will be made at the l ire Department Building all day tomorrow. ' rld The all kinds of garden produce and you are asked onlv to use your own judgment in asking for such seeds as you really intend to plant, thus saving any waste of these valuable seeds, which are the very best, furi nished by the Vaughn Seed Company. Call at the tire department any time between 8 o’clock a. m. and 8 p. m. tomorrow and secure Free Seeds for your garden. The only thing asked is that you sign for such seeds as you take out so the committee in charge may have some way of reporting as Io the progress made.

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THE COURT NEWS I Mollie Rodenbeck (.ranted Allowance—To be Paid Within Five Davs. i A CALL IS SENT i ’I To Mr. Green from Benj. Baumgartner Home—- ■ Son Believed Insane. Upon application of Mollie C. Rodenbeck. defendent in a divorce suit, tor an allowance for her use. Henry ' F. Rodenbeck. the plaintiff, was orderfed to pay her within five days the sum of $25. Portland Equitable Exchange vs. Hilbert French. Appearance hy Lutz and Hamilton for the defendent Rit'.e to answer. Further issues of minor news mutter were made in the Woeste-Arnold and the Peoples Loan & Trust Co., vs. Frances M. Gossard cases. Sheriff Ed Green received a telephone message this morning from Benjamin Baumgartner, ot' French township, that his son, Joseph, unmarried, aged 30, is insane and asking him to come and take him into custody. This Mr. Green advised him, he could not do, until an affidavit had been made and the necessary procedure liad been taken before a justice of the peace, which he advistd done. This is the third son in the Baumgartner family to be thus afflicted. Two, William and Emil, one of whom is now deceased, have been inmates of Easthaven asylum at Richmond. William Frazier was appointed inheritance appraiser in the estate of Patrick Fahey. Frank Johnson was discharged as executor of the estate of James S. Johnston, on approval of his final re- , port. No inheritance tax was found ' due. The court appointed Amos Hirschoy guardian of Amanda Fox. et al. His bond is SBSOO. Real estate transfers: Jane Woods to Joseph J. Tonnelier. 120 acres of land in Root township. $8600; I’. G. Hooper, commissioner, to Kern part of lot 159, Decatur. $811; Mary E. Falk to Fanny Cowan, et al, realty in Rivarre, $1; Alva Clayton Smith to Nana M. Yager. 459, Berne, $225; Nana M. Yager to Abraham J. Moser, lot 459. Berne. $225. o HAS THE SCARLET FEVER Mary Suttles, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. IJ. Suttles has the scarlet fever and the home was quarantin'd this morning. Mr. Suttles will live ip town and the other children have been taken out ofc school for the rest of this year. WHEAT GOING UP. (United Press Service) Chicago, 111.. May 3—(Special to Daily Democrat) —One car load of Turkey No. 2 hard wheat sold on tlie cash wheat market today at 4b ov, r the May delivery price, making it s:;.lG'2 per bushel. —— _ 0 CARPENTERS TO MEET. All union carpenters are requested to meet at their hall above the Murray billiard hall Friday afternoon at 12-30 o’clock and then march in a body to the John Diller home, where they will attend the funeral services for their departed brother.