Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 108, Decatur, Adams County, 8 May 1917 — Page 2

DAILY D E M 0 v K A T ■wj— lll i , — wgH i, "■■r- ■ I Publish** Every Cvtnlng Except |« Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company JOHN H. HELLER President ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Secretary Subscription Rates. Per Week, by carrier 10 ceuta Per Year, by carrier |6.'W Per Mouth, by mail.. 26 cents Per Year, by mail 13.00 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the Hastoffice in Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. tnereclitable, that Germany, after three years of isolation, has brought the world to its knees; increditable that Prance and England are on th>t last lees, appealing to l lie United ' States as the only possible, sourei >i ' salvation; doubly incredible that Ger. many knowing all this, should have deliberately driven Into the tight 1 against her this, the only nation th t : has the power to destroy her! , i ' diauapoHs Times. The French soldiers seem to hire ! fared ganger even while passi’.t J through peaceful Egypt in deal <,kl 1 Illinois. From some undiscovered I cause their train was wrecked ami 1 four cars derailed. Fortunately no one was even injured but the thoo antis who had gathered at Teyre Hamand Indianapolis tor a glance al t ‘ ! great foreigners, w'ere disappoint) It is likely that more care as-to publishing the exact route of such fra! is will be taken hereafter. Senator Fleming, formerly tlte g jtieman from AdamsAuid Allen, is n,. v urging that the constitutional s-onvi tition. be held as planned and he h.s every one guessing just jchy. Whether he feels that a constitution written now would not have the careful study ihat such an important article should have and thus give. toe opportunity secure a basic document mon to les liking or one so palpably weak that it would nit be approved by the people of the state, we cannot say, but 11 - fact t al Steve is tor it. will probably change the position of several ;lg)W-1 ers for it. Credit is due th< T. P. A lodge >t this city for showing the way in their annual celebration. Instead of spending a large sum in banqueting tl..< year when there are so many needs for money, they very wisely held the annual reunion without the “eats” and according to the verdict expressc I. had just as g >od a time. From th money thus saved they apprepria 1 sums far the Civic Improvement a.t 1 Red Cross societies and fur the purw chase of a Hag that is to be raised next Sunday. with appropriate c»" - inony. The boys are certainly "True patriotic Americans" and they deserve much credit for this a<*ion. After all the farmers of this country are the ones who must raise the great crop necessary to keep awi.y the w lives of hunger next winter. llmOrthiridy Srmii A Society Brand Pinch Back or Belter in Blue and Green Flannels at 1 $22.50 to $27.50 : A ______ M I THE MYERS-DAILEY ; COMPANY ;

While the city campaigns are great Lind will help, every one knows thet l the old and experienced farmer is the tnan who must la-coma the general in such movements. To hini we will all i look for an increase that will be worth | while. I here is no greater waste than waste of energy. Lets everybody, farmer ami townsman do all he can iu careful, ever going head maun. that when totaled up utter harvest w<J show the greatest production offloed stuffs ever known in any land. Tira have we done our "bit" and (lone it well. Indiana mi'll of military age. thuswho have no dependents and who are physically lit. should enlist naw an I d'fliue to wait for the big draft. The volunteer not only b a certain hi ;h and creditable stamlim;, but he will get that early trurjibg v h ' niears early promotion The volunteer of today is to be the commissioned ottn er and the noncommissioned officer i.i that later period when the raw i >nscripts aje mobilized for training. The conscripts will come, after the regu'ar 'army th. navy th. guardband th marine corps* ate tilled to war strength. The volunteer who gets in will nave many week's training tojhe good before the conscripts are put through their first “course cl sprouts." Indiana Daily Times. I DOINGS IN SOCIETY | WEEK'S SOCIAL CALENDAR T uesday Phoebe Bible Class — Mrs. Ed .Mil ler. Ever Ready Class Mrs. Ed Ahr. W C. T. U-Mrs. John Vail. W» R. C. Business Meeting—G.’A It. hall. Wednesday. Civic Improvement Society's Tea — Mrs. C. A. Dugan Home. Thursday Eastern Star- Masonic Hall. V. B. Aid Mrs. William I’Ainington Friday. Mite Society—Postponed. Junior Reception—Masonic Hall. 1 have never advocated war except as a means for peace.—U. S. Grant. Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock .diss Emma Fiechter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Fiechter, became the bride of Mr. Samuel H. Baumgartner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joel S Haumggttner. living east of Vera Cruz. The cerem >ny war performed by Rev. sAuui 1 < f the Six Mile parsonage. The ao.t- 1 pie by Miss Lucinda Baumgartner and Mr. Joel Fiecht •". l brother and sister of the bride a.i-i groom. Bluffton News. The picnic supper given last eve (J lire at the h ime'of their teacher. M.- J A. D. Artman, by the Ruth Circle <f ’he Christian church.preceded the regular business ami s,x igl meeting if this hand. The supper was- a most (p- ‘ licit ns <ui< including sandwiches of several varieties, baked beans, potato salad, deviled eggs, pickles, oliv -s. cheese, cookies, cakes, wafers, fr-ut salad, coffee and other good things J The president. Miss Florence Liclite 1steiger. presided during the business meeting and plans were made for a parcels post sale and supper. M iniiay evening. May 28. A committee on »>- Retting and arrangements includes Mrs. Ruby Baker. Misses Fanchon Magley and Ada Stevens. Three me ibers of the circle, Grace Lictitenst-ig-er, Vera Eady and Vivian Burk are high.school graduates this year and invitation from these to the commencement exercises was read. Mrs. W. P. Marsh was received as a new member The collection for the evening amounted to ten dollars. Mrs. Marsh has invited the circle to her home in Avo weeks. • Business discussion occupied mu h of the time of the Delta Theta Tiu sorority last evening at the home of Miss Margaret Smith, several plans being furthered. The members of the Woman's Civic. I fmproveptent society would like to meet all the ladies of the city at fluffr lea, Wednesday afternoon, from three to five at the home of Mrs. C. A. Dugan. This js a get-acquanited tea and the regular business meeting of the society will he held preceding the soi l The Freshmen boys of the high school were-picnicked and toas'ted nod feted last evening at the high schcid building by the high school Senior girls. The picnic supper was spread from fir to' seven and dancing and a rood time followed. It is said tiv-t ihe girls took this way of .settling scores with the Senior boys ave

I-,.,, partial In their atteniions showered upon the. Junior girls. The senior girls entertained the freshmen boys at a picnic supper in the matinal Iraltiing room Refreshments consistiwProf sandwiches, pickles. olives, deviled eggs, potato salad. nuhiscoa. cookies, bananas and oranges. Gutnes were enjoyed throughout the evening. Chaperons were Miss ('ravens and Mr. Kitten • house *lh> ll,eetmg of the Mill Society of the M E church scheduled for Friday of this week at the H E Butler home, has been postponed until Friday of next week, on account of illness in the family. TO ASK BILLION A TO BUILMOATS — (Continued from Page One) her of places, particularly between Freny and Loos.” the statement Said. "Ours replied. In the neighborhood of Neuve Chapelle and Faqitissart we made sucveMful raids "Northeast of Armentieres a small enemy party raided our lines yesterday evening and after a hand to hand 1 tight, were driven out. leaving a few dead A few of our men art tfcssing. South of another enemy raid was repulsed." BULLETIN Rome. May 8 (Special to Daily Democrat I Kaiser William had a narrow estape-from an assassin's bullet while motoring in Bt rlin. a Zurich dispatch to the Corriere d’ Italia asI terted today An unidentified man * fired three shot a at the kaiser's car. I two of them striking the tonneau, the third going wild. He was arrested. The dispatch said the police were silent on the incident. Washington. •!>. ('., May S —(Special to Daily Democrat) —That an actual solution of the submarine menace is close at hand was the view expressed officially by a competent navydepartment authority today. His opinion was given while W. L. Satmderns and other members of the naval cousultnig board were at the department to confer with Secretary of Navy Daniels on anti-submarine inventions recently considered by the ; board. s o_ HOME FROM CONVENTION. Mrs. A. D. Artman and Mrs. Ruby Baker have returned from Hartford City where they attended the sixte ath annual session of the Northern Indiana Ben Hur Congress. t Mrs. Baker was a delegate from t ie local court and alsio gave a reading during a social evening. Mrs. Artm n also read, taking the place of Mt -s ' Martha Tucker who could not attend. Mrs. Artman was chairman of the credential committee and both she and 1 Mrs Baker took part in the specta’ ular initiation. This im hides the p.- j--1 duct ion of the play. "Ben Hur." in sever. sc< n-s. Mrs. Ari man w. s 1 Mother Hur. and api eared in thr e j seelies, also giving the lecture. Mis. | Baker look the part of Esther, in I scene five. It was given in the ope. a . hoiff-e at Hartford City The time of the annual meeting his . been changed to the first week in St u- , tember. and next year it will be .< state affair MR. HAMMELL. VERY LOW Mrs Kate Kooi-Jz. of Yellow' Sj tt ■ • j 0., will arrive this afternoon being '(ailed here by the serious illness <f her father C. R. Hammell. who is at the pidnt of death wxl whom it is believed will not survive the week, l.e has been ill for many months of cancer of the stomach. o —- ——■ JAMES W. SALE ELECTED. < I’nfted Prews Service) 4 Fort Wayne. Ind . May S (Special to Daily Deniixrati- James W Sale lot Bluffton was elected president of; the Indiana School for Feeble Minded at the annual meeting of the trus-' tees todtty. oNOTICE ADAM 6 COUNTY. The Adams Comity Game and Fish Protective <kasso<-iation will meet at the city hall Wednesday. May 9th. at i 8 o’clock. All those interested In (•game and fish are requested to be' f present and a special appeal is made ! . to the farmers to be present. By or(ler of COMMITTEE . ; —■—- -o—— Sugar From Wood. ’ Now they’re making sugar out of " | womL Chemists have found that they 'can take a ton of sawdust and get a -j quarter of a ton of sugar out of it' I" The process consist* of putting the nwdust into a closed retort and subjectlng'lt t<> digestion wj’h a weak solution of sulphurous m id under n pres- , sure of from ninety to one hundred pounds to the square inch. Eighty per cent of the sugar thus obtained is fermentable. The product is called “sacchulcse." FOR SALE—Sligh’ly used A B. Chase piano, taken iu on player piano. A bargain.- Jas. B. Stogdill. YVRlshire. Ohio, 108t3

COURT HOim NEWS. (Continued from Page One) ed by the plaintiff. The defendant was ordered died to appear May 21 to show cause why he should not ne puuixhed for contempt of court In fail ing to comply with tin- order thereof. • Real eat ate transfers; Theodore L. Zerkle, et ul to David Gerber, realty tn Hartford i iwu-hip. ItiJOO A marriage license was issued la <l evening to Jerome J Coffee, machinist, born October 4. 1894. son of David D. Coffee, to wed Gladys Mary Eat.'. Ixirn September 27, 1898, duutlhlev f Enoch Ead.w • WEST WARD CLUB County Agricultural Ageut Overton and Will Kremers, of the Sugar C< puny, tuet with the Wes’ Ward i’ renkj Teachers' dub last evening .ittld gave talks along the line of gardenin '. The ward has leased an acre and i half of land for the boys and girls aa i they will nultivate ililetly white na y beans. Tomatoes also will be grown. A social will be given next Tuesd ty night at the west ward school. From seven to eight there will be a progr: m of three changes, given by the put D of hie several rooms. Following this there will be a fair, when various things will be sold. A good time is antisipated. — o 1 PARENT-TEACHER CLUBS. jhe Wes’ Ward Parent Teachy:s'' club met last night, with a good at-. tendance and much interest. The’ children of that school will take care •bf an acre and a half garden this year, the money thus derived to be used for play ground equipment. They will plant beans and toman-s and the girls will can the tomatoes and sell them. The North Ward Parent-Tea< hers'| dub will meet tonight to plan for raiding funds for securing playground equipment. O. L. Vance is the president and the association is making good progress. PLAY IS POSTPONED Owing to the fact thal the final examinations will be heiAl la the public schools the first of next week the s'adents who took part in the home talent play “The Man From Home" f eD that it will be impossible for them ol give the time that would be necessa y for practice and the giving of Cie show for the Ixnefit of company "A" at this time and the same has lie n postponed. They may. give the *p rformance later. o WHAT "THE CRISIS" MEANS TO THOSE WHO THINK I The sort of material doled out in many of the pi< ture theaters has long been a subject of interest to this paper. We have visited the movies for ’lie - — ————

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purpose of finding out what sort of enteitsinmeut is making the public ud and glad: for entertaihmant 1 seems to be achieved so easily in har(lowing the emotions h in chewing the mind of the pleasure seeker There Is u question as to whether the theater provides what the public demands or whether the public takes what it can get However that may be. the movies might become a great educational force, and lose nothing on the score of entertainment, if handled in the right way. for impressions are much deeper when taken through the st uses than when ackuired after much panlstaking study through the intellect, am! the movie is the medium •of all others which meets thia special requirement. For those managers who are working along these lines we have the heartiest respect and would do what we could to co-operate. Thert js a film running at the country's leading theaters called "The Crisis.' It is an adaptation of the story by Winston Churchill, a faithful reproduction of antebellum days, which is worth a whole term's course on the institution of slavery, the incidents leading up to the civil war and the war itself, to every child in America. This film is so true, so deeply hu .'man. so real in its portrayal of ,courI age. patriotism, love. honor, selfj.sacrifice and "Americanism" that the j cheap exhibitions supposed to arouse i these dormant sentiments, when the , Itand plays "America." and the “hero" . runs up the flag, are tawdry in comparison. This is history, alive —with men and women who choose to suffer and die for the great cause and do not count the cost. This shoilrs Lincoln, the man. in the character of the sad but indomitable patriot, whose heart was wrung by the suffering of the south. In other words, this film brings home to the last two generations the actual situation in this country at the (line of the c;v,i war as no amount of textbook study or record of battles can do. For we are not yet creatures of the intellect, but father reached through our feelings and our educational pathfinders must recognize this : tact in order to attain best results. We cannot too highly recommend this film which leaves the beholder in an exalted mood; proud of hie country and willing, even glad, to give himself to any noble cause. Why not supply our young people with this sort of heroic, yet biwutifully simple sort of pictun . ams stimulate what is .best that is in them. | rather than prostitute their with the stupid antics of cheap ! clowns on the precarious adventures of pirates and highwaymen.—Editorial in the Detroit Times. Dec. 2. 1916. At the Crystal tonight. *

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AUTOMOBILE - 5 passenger Oakland, starter, electric lights, up to the minute. Will trade for city property and pay difference.—Erwin A Michaud.

GRADUATION GIFTS FOR BOY AND GIRL Should he serviceable and beautiful, in keeping witty the importance of this occasion. Graduation means so much to the boy and girl and an appro* priate gift of jewelry will make the occasion all the more lastingly remembered. Here are some suggestions:— FOR THE BOY FOR THE GIRL Matches Diamond Ring & Jewelry Rin ss Wrist Watches Reßs LaVallieres, Rings M aldema* Chains Brooches, Pearl Beads Fountain Pens Ivory, Bud Vases I mbrellas Umbrellas I hast arc only a few suggestions. Many ,)! - b ei things have to be seen to be appreciated ' li,lK ' we re always glad to show you. Pumphrey’s Jewelry Store

— —„ ■ —— . 1 IFOR SALE -Slightly used A B Chaui piano. taken in <>n I*''’' ‘piano; a bargain. Jas H Stofia 1 !H)7 W. Creighton Ave.. Kort Ul>:« I Ind. _