Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 120, Decatur, Adams County, 22 May 1917 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRA T Pgbltnhed Every Evening Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company JOHN H. HELLER President ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Secretary tutoeurtptlon Rates, Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Tear, by carrier $6.00 Per Month, by mail . ..26 cents Per Year, by mall $3.00 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the Postoffice In Decatur. Indiana, a* second-class matter.

Men who have reached the age of twenty-one and who have not remised thirty-one must register two weeds from today. Don't "monkey'' with Uncle Sam either by trying to dodge for any excuse or by giving a false age. Hemember that the government has away of doing things entire !y different from tlie usual court of trial and they also have a wav of discovering the truth and woe t > the man w o sets himself up against his government. Register on the day fixed by the new law-. June sth. Port Wayne is said to have an 0. - - ganiation whose purpose is to raise money for Germany and membv s boasted that they had $505 ready i r that purpose. Commissioner Dog. it has the dope and Irak notified the topart meat. If true the men are guilty of treason against their government for which the penalty is death. The tuition is at war and litany people seem not to understand the seriousness of that fact. The sooner they I t the better it is going to be Tor eve". - body. This is not a .political campaignDon'l get mixed up on.the regisir.t tion for military purposes. Remember these facts: The date is Tuesday. June sth. one day only. It you an 21 at l not 31 yon must register no difference what your belief or your physical condition; if sick or away from year home on that day go to -county ele- t anti get proper information as how ..r register. NO ONE WITHIN T! i K AGE IS EXCUSED FROM REGISTERING. THE GOVERNMENT WANTS \ CARD INDEX OF MEN OF THAT AGE. The gardens grew about a foot this morning as the result of the *ru;n which reached t lear down to the roots of the plants and pushed them up into second spedd. The high cost of living will drop in a few days when /ou can slip into your back yard and get the ingredients for a dinner fit for a king. Be careful of y our products, not was - ."si and remember that the big idea is to store for next winter. Plant more garden for the late season, watch th. weeds, be thrifty and the garden campaign wHI have been a wonderful success. No body likes a loafer* a man who lives off the 'community, who consumes but never produces and the law recommended for passage in the West Virginia legislature will me t the approval of every lamest citizen. In this age when help is in demand every able bodied man of proper age should be helping to produce and it he refuses put hint on a stone idle.

If you haven’t already purchased your supply of * Summer Underwear and Shirts you had better busy as stocks are going to be depleted early. We can supply your wants in Underwear in all styles.Shorts, Longs or Regulars. . s Mil i mp THE MYERS-DAILEY COMPANY i

The 1 following from the Christian Seieiice Monitor expresses the thought: West Virginia hits hit upon a happy way of solving one problem. Taking tile ground that there is no justification for chronic Idleness, even In time of peace, much less in time of war, the ('(Aiitcll of Defense of that stn.i# announces that it will recommend to the’legislature, which assembles Pi special session this month, the entj< luient of a luw requiring till men ontween the ages of sixteen and sixty years to find employment. Itt other words, the Council of Defense is in lavor of a law which will make voluntary idleness among men a misdemeanor Such a movement should not longvbe confined to West Virginia.

joc »rao«™xj: x f DOINGS IN SOCIETY jj WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Monday. Delta Theta Tau —Frances Deininger. Ruth Circle Mrs. W. C. Marsh. Ben Hur Drill Practice. Tuesday. Red Cross Benefit Musical —Mis. Monica Masl-Boggs Class at Masonic Hall. Wednesday. Pastoral Division —M "s. Minnie Daniels. Willing Helpers—Mrs. Otto lleppeit. L. T. E. —Picnic. Thursday. Loyal Women's Class —Mrs. G. E. •Mount. Bachelor Maids Rose Voglewed . •Epworth league social, business and election. —M. E. church. Presbyterian Ladies' Aid society.Church Parlors. Friday. Christian Aid.—Mrs. Joint Barnett. Zion Lutheran Aid —Mrs. Fred Scheimann at Schoolhouse. Ben Hur Aid society.—After lodge session. Queen Esthers Martha McCrory and Esther Butler. "Occupation: Going places, seeing tilings-, or finding out about things, and writing of them. Ambition: To go to some place, somewhere, sometime, and «e<something just once without havittg to write about it.”—Samuel Blythe, editor of "Who’s Who and Why” in writing of himself. *** * * Ambition: "Me Too.”- Editor of this column. The first social of the Bachelor. Maids will be Thursday evening of this week when Miss Rose Vogleweib* will entertain. Okla Harrold of Fort Wayne, returned to iter home Sunday after visiting with the P. G. Hooper family. While here she attended the commencement festivities and a picnic was given in her honor at Steele's park. •

Mrs. Russel Hawkins. Miss Julia Sinyser, Miss Margaret Hanna and-Mr. Nathan Smyrer. of Chicago, accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Chalmer Schaf if Decatur, on a motoring trip to Tip-' pecanoe lake today to sepnd Sunday. The trip was made in tlie Schaf r car.— Fort Wayne News. * Mrs. W. i’aul Marsh and daughter. Madeleine, two new members of l tie Ruth Circle of the Christian church, delight fully entertained that body, with Miss Rena Bridgewater, as a guest last evening at their home on • West Monroe street. During the business period, the date of the parcels post sale and supper was changed from next Monday evening, to Sit urday evening of next week. The place will be announced later. There was a good attendance and the interest was very good. The hostesses were assi-tt-ed by Misses Ada Stevens and Esther Enos in serving a very tasty lunch. During the evening invitations were' issued by Mrs. Olen Baker. Misses Dorothy Schultz and Stella David for a friendship shower for Thursday evening. May 24. for one of the circle members, Mrs. Carl Schaffer. The party will he at the home of Mrs. Halter. 522 Madison street. x Vincent Smith wil| return from Hloxi. Miss., soon where he and is wife, Hazel RaDeltc Smith, have spent the winter following their honeymoon. Mr. Smith will attend to business' here and will then return to Bloxl Mrs. Smith who finds her lieaith' much improved wth the change of climate, will remain there longer. Following their marriage in Fait Wayne. Mr. aud Mrs. Clifford DaDeiie ■wept to Kendallville where they visited with Mr. DaDelie's aunt, returning to Fort. Wayne Sunday evening. Miss Marie Connell had a paper on i

"Indiana" and the Misses Vera Howtr atul Agnes Kohne had musical Micelions for the Delta Theta Tau sorority meeting with Mi»s Frances Deinlnger last evening. A number of the girls who are in charge of, or are lessons in tlie Red Cross instruction class, attended that before going to] the sorority meeting. A fine lunch was provided. The laiysl Temperance Legion will have u picnic tomorrow afternoon. All the children are invited slid they are asked to report at the M. K. ehur.ih at 1:30 each liringing his own lutuli. This will he taken ty Steele’s park for a picnic if the weather permits. If not. the spread wilf be in he church basement. Martha McCrory and Esther Butler will entertain the Queen Esthers Friday evening at the McCrory home. Mr. ami Mrs. Roy Baker gave a dx o’clock dinner party last evening at their home on Tenth street. Covers being laid for Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Merryman. and children. Mr. and M Orval Harruff. Mr. anti Mrs. Ollie Heller and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Lately Jackson. Mrs. Charles Harmer and babe returned today to Fostorla. 0.. after (t---tending the commencement and visiting with the Peter Meyer family. Mis. Hammer's sister, Miss Sophia Droll YHS a graduate. Her father. John Droll and sons. Charles and Geor:; . anil a cousin. Henry Liehtle. of Fostoriu, (),.. were also here, motoring back to Fostoria Sunday. Mrs. My. r accompanied Mrs. Hammer to Fort Wayne today. Rev. I). O. Wise and Mrs. Wise, of Berne, who are attending the Evangelical institute, were guests of the C. E. Hocker family. Mrs. Minnie Daniels' division of the Pastoral Helpers will meet wit{i her Wednesday afternoon. This is a special meeting before the general meeting. All should attend. Mrs. G. E. Mount will entertain the Loyal Women's Class Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Melvin and KUa and Joint Melvin of Buffalo. N. V., art the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Laughlin and family east of* the city. They motored through from Buffalo, making the trip in two days. The Zion Lutheran Ladies' Aid society will meet for an all day quil'ing session at the K(h«*dh(>us» ridev afternoon. The dinner will he serv d at noon by MYs. Fred Scheimann. All should attend.

Mrs. John Barnett will entertain the Christian Ladies' Aid society Friday afternoon. Mrs. U. S. Drummond and her brother. Albert Nelson, of Colorado, ate visiting with the J S. Nelson and Kail Peters families in Fort Wayne. ELECTION CASES DISMISSED. (United Press’ Service) Cincinnati. O. May 23.—(Special to Daily Democrat.) Judge Hollister today dismissed the 57 Indictment* charging violation of election laws returned by the grand jury under advice by deputies, holding that there were no federal laws covering these Indictments. He pointed out tHat i: lias been the federal policy to allow the various states to take care of election matters. o CORPORATION DISSOLVED. The Kalver-Noble Garage company of this city has tiled with the secretary of state of Indiana papers dissolving its corporation and will from now on he a private partnership with 1. A. Kalver. C. C. Noble and Luther S. Hower as partners. There will he t)o change in their business.

NAME OMITTED. Through oversight of the reporter, I the name of Miss Matilda Sellemeyer tcVas unintentionally omitted from the i list of teachers published yesterday. Miss Sellemeyer has Tieen selected to teach again in th- eighth grade at the central building. —: o WiTH HOSPITAL UNIT. . Herman Ashbaucher, of lllufftou , was a member of the Northwesle-n University hospital unit, of which two nurses were killed during gunners target practice enroute to France on the Mongolia. Fred Bbllman. former Decatur hoy, who was a member of the Northwestern University hospi'al unit, was also probe lily with this com-' ' pany. TAKE A MILLION IN BONDS. (Jallogly & Johnson, agents for the Gcrman-American Insurance company of New York has received word from Charles U. Smith, president of the company that the company lpus subscribed for $1,000,000 of the Liberty I Loan. This is the first subscription | made by any fir* insurance company it is said. I

RING-SIDE SEATS ' (Anllmied from Page One) I several negro friends, is now suri rounded in a shack, excitement lovI era are having their till. After Pear I son was tied to the stake and the tifreh applied he Implicated Ford and Armstrong and the molt growing In numbers, started in pursuit. ______ Q COURT HOUSE NEWS. Certificate of the election of Martin Miller, trustee of the Zion Reformed church for three years, was filed with the county recorder. Real estate transfers: Philip Zauri: to David S. Stepler, 50 acres of Mon- . roe township, $700; Amos K. Beer to William A. Amstutz, east half of lot 130 ami lot 136, Berne, SSOO. County Assessor William Frazier has recovered from illness and was able to return to his work this mornI ing. Judge D. E, Smith is at Bluffton today. 4 ATLANTA SUFFERS BIG LOSS. (United Press Service) Atlanta, Ua.. May 22—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Having burned through the heart of Atlanta's re-i- --' denee district, making 10,000 persons 1 homeless and destroying at least 1 $3,000,000 worth of property, one of • the worst fires the south has ever ■ known, was finally gotten und,er conI trol here early today. There was ' only one death. Miss Bessie Hodges t died from shock. Sixty persons were injured. The cause of the fire which start--1 ed in a storage house on Decatur street, is unkniwn. Fire authorities believe it was incendiary. Mayor Candler believes it was accidental. , An Investigation is in progress. Today's great task is caring for the thousands of homeless and destitute who lost everything in the flames. o WILLSHIRE MILL BURNS. A saw mill at Wiltshire. Ohio, just - across the state line, owned and ' operated by W. H. Ditzier, of Blufftoa. has been destroyed by fire, together 1 with 70,000 feet of heavy timbers ' which were awaiting shipment. The 1 cause of the fire is unknown. It hit 1 ' a jjood start when discovered, and the fire-fighting facilities at Wiltshire were insufficient to cope with t>. - Framing 'timbers worth S6OO. for :t - new elevator at Willshire, were butnv ed, and work on the structure will be 1 delayed several uijmlhs. The mill will 1 doubtless be rebuilt. The loss was $4,000 and there was no insurance. FUNERAL. WEDNESDAY MORNING Funeral services for Cyrus R, Har.imcll. well known civil war veteran. . and venerable citizen, who died Sun- . day evening, will he held Wednesday I morning at 10 o’clock front the home, Rev. Jay C. Hanna of the Presbyterian church officiating. Interment will be made in the Maplewood cemetery. - NOT OUR ED GREEN. ( Denver, Colo.. May 22—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Ed Green, city superintendent of highways,-was shot five times and fatally wounded by W. li. Seay, district superintendent of municipal highways. Green says: "He shot me because he would not do his duty.”

I What Will You five Your Soldier Boy He’s on his way perhaps to “somewhere in the East,” or “West.” A timely trinket will be cherished by him. It'll cheer him up, too. during his long, dreary days and nights. Here are some suggestions—all inexpensive: Photo Frames Signet Rings (with your name inside) Military Sets Wrist Watches Lockets and Chains And numerous other keepsakes that are appreciated. ,ni I PUMPHREY’S JEWELRY STORE I THE HALLMARK STORE &

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1 BAD FRIGHT _ “ Cooilifts of Baby from Mblnijfht Darkness Tell Mother Where THE CHILD LANDED Was Thrown Over Barb Wire Fence During a Runaway—Uninjured. The cooing of the eight or nine months old Italic coming trout the midnight darkness of Sunday night, drew the mother, Mrs. Mathew Rib burger to the spot where sin pick"'l up the child, gurgling and laughing and uninjured after it had rolled down a ten foot embankment into a plou'died field near Yellow Creek after being thrown over a barbed wire fem e in a runaway. Mrs. Ribburger, who resides on the Frisinger farm was returning home about 11 o’clock Sunday night from the Clover Leaf station with n r mother. Mrs. Miller and Iter sister of Tiffin, 0., whom she met here. When , near the Lutz farm the horse frigid- ! cned and ran and during the excitei ment the buggy swayed over .against a telephone pole. In the shock, tag babe was thrown front the mothers arms, it was some time before it was] found at the foot of the embankment near the creek, miraculously uninjuted. WHERE’S MY PEN? (Continued from Pagt* One) Chalmer Hamrick. Helen Swearinger, Margaret Christen. Grecthcn Graham. Lee Urentlinger, Margaret Kienzle. Improvement Certificate. South Ward. Miss Perkins. Teacher—Evangeline McConnehey. Crystal Baltzell. Progress Pins —Seventh and Eighth Grades —Errol Page. Helen Meyer. Doyle Amspaugh. Leah Porter. Marcella Kern. Victor Baltzell. Leona Hunsicker, Gretchen Graham. Verva De France, Eleanor Reppert. Edith Glendening. Alta Breiner. Cal Peterson, David Hensley, Fred Kienzle. Beatrice Peterson, Wilma Smith, Charles Fike. Esther Mclntosh. .Margaret Kienzle, Margaret Christen. Meivena Butler. Chester Mclntosh. Lawson. Lenhart. Arthur Breiner Merland Ross. Progress Pins. South Ward, Miss Perkins, Teacher —Evangeline McConnehey, Irene Hess. o G. A. R. TO MEET. The G. A. R. will hold a meeting this evening at seven o’clock prompt to arrange to attend the funeral of Comrade Cyrus Hanupell which wi’l lie held to lorrow morning at ten o’clock front the home. ATTEND FUNERAL TODAY. O. P. Mills, city mail carrier and George Everett, of the postal rleik force, are off fluty today attending the funeral of their father-in-law. Vincent D. Bell at Craigville and Bluffton.

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GREENHOUSE ANNOUNCEMENTS. The greenhouse is well supplied with an unusually fine stock of bedding plapts ami is now offeriug geraniums for 156; 15c geraniums for 10 cents: plenty of coleus, sptrgert. salvia, vines for hanging baskets and porch boxes: lobelia, dusty miller, alternutherius. Madam Salvory and springer!, some excellent Boston terns which have just been received, and a bunch of other plants that are worth while. The public is invited to call to see us. and to those .who can to kindly call in the morning, ami avoid the busy hours of the afternoon. 120tf MOSES GREENHOUSE CO. — o WOMEN DOING MEN’S WORK On<i of the most striking results of the great war in Europe is the extent to which women are doing the work of men. Travellers to England and France report that practically every able-bodied man is in uniform and women by the thousands are engag-

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ed in doing men’s work—acting a conductors and drivers on the ear; and doing all sorts ofjteavy work lie sides. This shows unexpected possihiii ties in what has been mistaken!; called the weaker sex. Women art subject to ailments which men do no have, and when so ailing becomi weak, helpless sufferers. But a rent edy has been found. For forty yen - Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound has been making surh wonn i well and strong, and as able to •it work as any other woman. —Advt. o BIG ROTARiAN MEETING. The members of the Decatur 1U tary dub w ill meet Wednesday < i ening at the Madison hotel at 6: ; o'clock for their regular luncheoi t meeting. Coi. Fred Reppert. the am . I tioneer of world fame, will be'the , guest and and interesting meet in I and pleasant evening is assured. A - members should be present.