Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 138, Decatur, Adams County, 13 June 1917 — Page 1

Volume XV. Number 138.

A HUNDRED MILLION FOR RED CROSS

ADAMS COUNTY MUST MEET 818 DEMANDS COMPLETING ORGANIZATION FOR BIG DRIVE FOR FUNDS—ADAMS COUNTY’S ALLOTTMENT IS 58.750.

The Red Pros of the nation has inaugurated a seemingly impossible campaign to raise one hundred million dollars between June 12th and 25th—and aided by the good people of this greatest country in the world, they are going to do it. The announcement at ♦his time is made that you may think it over and that the organization may l>e completed this week, while you ire concludes the work of raising the two billion did la, Liberty Isian fund. V.’e do not doubt that you feel you have already been greatly imposed j upon by solicitors and by the various' campaigns, but listen, good people, i you hav'nt started. This is not peace , times, but war times, thougli it seems impossible for many to understand it. This fund of a hundred million is absolutely necessary. Our boys are going to disease stricken France, where 500,0<M) men have tuberculosis, where disease in every form stalks about, | causing as much loss as the bullets. Your heart should rail out to you to give the very last dollar you can afford to this cause of preparing 10 shield our soldiers against the suffering endured by the boys of other nations engaged in the awful war. Eveiy man. woman and child should be a soldier in this army to raise this mon , ey to be used to relieve suffering men ai the front. Here Are the Plans The United States will raise one hundred million dollars in one week June 18 to 25—for the use of the Red Cross, if the war continues three years this will have to be done several times. Indiana will raise one million do!- i lars of this amount. New York state is assessed $45,000 000 ami others in proportion to their wealth. Allen county* assessment is SSO.OOO, > V\ ells is asked for $9,500. ADAMS COUNTS IS ASSESSED $8,750. Division of the County This county has four Red Cross chapters, all branches of Fort Waytoe. They are Decatur, Monroe, Berne and Geneva. This proposition was an Bounced at a meeting held in Chicago a week ago. A few days later a meeting was held at Fort Wayne at which time representatives from every comfy in the north part of the state were present, French Quinn, attending from this county. Returning, he at once took up the work of organizing. Meetings were held in this city and > t Berne Monday anil the county was di- ( vided by agreement as follows: The Decatur chapter to take care of this city and ten miles, from the Allen county line to the east and west section, four miles south of this cLy. Monroe— Four miles beginning two miles north of that place and extending to the section line two miles south Berne— Six miles, beginning tour miles north of town and extending two miles* south. Geneva-Four mi.es, beginning -> miles south of Berne and extending | 11 e Jay county line. The Organization

h<. a board of directors, ten for Dee.i tur and five for each of the ° these men will be the managers in l nf the wort and every man, charge o „ ed upon by them, Sraryrrs amiliingly answer their call, will appoint ten captains for each disStld these will call in as many, aids “ necessary to cover the territory cfuickly and efficiently. T e < rectors as named are: , Decatur— A. J- Smith, • ' W Vail L- C. Waring, F. M. Schit nieyer. Rev. J- A. SeimeU, John Nifr

DECATUR DAILY DEM( H RA F I

lick, Fred Schaffer, C. E. Bell, C. J. Voglewede. Monroe —L. A. Thomas. E. W. Busche, J. E. Nelson. H. M. Crown-, over and J. A. Hendricks. Berne— L. A. Sprunger, E. T. Haeker, John Parr, Beer and Fr-'d Studler. | Geneva —Dr. C. R. Price. George Ineichen. E. V. Arnold, W. D. Cross and W. A. Wells. | This meansa finance committee of twenty-five men and the further we j go the easier the work looks. All that | is required is for those who believe in real charity, in helping humanity, to take off their coats and help for a few j days. make Adams county the j very first to reimrt their share of this' work completed. Some Other Facts We call your attention to another story in todays paper covering the details of this work. We know you do not realize the serious side of the war for that is impossible over here where we only hear an occasional echo, but across the sea, a million men are helpless, ill, dying and seriously wounded. Early in the war hundreds of thousand of men died whose lives could have been saved if they had been given . pVoper care, our boys will soon be there and this nation is trying to avoid the mistakes made by the other countries. Won't you help? The campaign in Indiana is headed by a Red Cross War Fund Campaign committee of which Governor Goodrich is chairman. The metpbers are: Governor Goodrich, Chairman; V/. G. Irwin, Columbus; John J. Crawford. Terre Haute; H. McK Evansville; Prresident W. E. Stone, Lafayette: J. L. Bayard, Jr„ Vincennes George Ade, Brook; Fred Miller,j South Bend; Patrick Lynch, New [tie; E. C. Miller. Fort Wayne; George T. Dinwlddie, Frankfort; J. A. Van. Osdal. Anderson: T. F. Rose, Mancie; 1 Col. J. T. Backman, Aurora; E. V. Knight, New Albany; Joseph Shirk ( Peru. The management of the campaign, is in the hands of A. F. Bentley, state director of the Red Cross, with an organization force or workers in each congressional district where a secretary is directing the county movements. S. P. Withrow, of Cincinnaii, has been secured as campaign leader in the field. ! There is no limit to the amount which a Hoosier may give to the Red Cross fund, but the gifts must be generous if the state is to reach its t»portionment of $1,000,000. Although the actual canvas for funds does not start until July 18, several gifts of $1,000,000 each have been pledged in] New York and large sums are also pledged by Chicago citizens. Every county in Indiana now has a fully organized chapter of the Red I Cross and forces of workers are ready 1 to canvass for subscriptions, and in ’ every county too the state committee ! urges that the appeal for funds be ' promptly rresponded to.

—o — DRY GOODS MEN MEET (TTntted Press Service) Indianapolis, June 13—“ Business as usual” was the adopted slogan as the Indiana Retail Dry Goods Merchants who met here yesterday for their third annual convention. Two hundred merchants, representing every large city in the state attended. A movement was started at the meeting to form the Middlewest D'y Goods, association, composed of merchants in Indiana, Illinois and Ohio. Members of the Illinois association at- • tended the meeting to discuss the pro • posed organization, i

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening, June 13, 1917.

WINS THE PRIZE Marcella K *iel?!cr— Again Carries Oil - the Breen Prize at Academy in DOMESTIC SCIENCE i ——— Receives Others Also — Several from Here Attend Commencement. Miss Marcella Kuebler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Kuebler. w ho <\ mPfeted her third academic class at the Sacred Heart academy and will thus be a senior next year, carried off a j number of prizes in the awards. r I he annual commencement was held yesterday at the academy and on a'count I of the recent death of Father Adams, the exercises were private, Mit v.tre very impressive. Seventeen priests , were present, and Inspiring addresses; 'as well as excellent musical numbers, were given. | Among those from here who attend- , ed were Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Koehler, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Barthol nrd the Misses Frances Deininger and Matilda ] Berling. Miss Kuebler carried off a number of prizes. hi domestic science she again received the five dollar gold piece, a prize offered annually ;:\ Mrs. W. P. Breen. Miss Kuchlfg carried this off last year also, in plaivFsewing. She also received a book as i priin Latin, this being given by the Rev. J. M. Schmitz. Another prize for application in art went equally to Miss Kuebler. with others. For correct deportment and observance of rules she received a prize offered by Rev. E. J. Mungovan. Speaking of the art display at t!i° academy during its closing day- of the term, the Fort Wayne Sentinel says: “Miss M. Kuebler claimed a number of oils, among them a delightful i >uvas of the pretty views around the academy, also a belleek comport in bluebirds and one of Satsuma.” FOR CHILDREN’S DAY The parents of the children of the Reformed church are requested to send the children to the church Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock for| practice for children’s day.

I AN APPEAL FOR THE RED CROSS FUND I ‘ r ° * l^his 4 by a humble citizen of this county, who has been placed in a position where he has been enabled to partially grasp the intensely dillicult situation that this country h is entered into and the necessary sacrifices our people will he called upon to undergo from time to time, and who desires to express himself to his fellow citizens without the slightest intent to <dU No oni-'kiiows better than the writer of what stuff our own home folks are made. He has lived here a life time and loves his country and his feliowmen. He sensed the sullenngs and sacrifices of the Civil War and all the constructive and destructive situations since- He has faith in the people. He believes they will acquit themselves well of the manv tasks that conilont them. He know s they have done so heretofore. Many indeed are the burdens we must from now on assume. Manv of them will be heartbreaking. None of us can assume all of these burdens. There must be a fair distribution all around. Some of us are fitted for effort along one line and some along another. Some of us can enlist gloriously and go and fight. Some must .1!! the fields. Hut. oh. my fellow citizens whether it be for service in the trench or in thefiedsm Hie Red Cross or in the Y. M. C. A., in the factory orstore or home. LET US NO I HESIIAIE it) SACRIFICE Learn to give. LEARN TO GIVE. Learn to divide of that which you have Learn to be patient one with another. In this community, where you and I five, are men of more than one faith and blood. I know they are now .II Americans I[know these men and these women and I know they are truly loyal and will SACRIFICE 10 SHOW 11. PerhaDS thev do not all express themselves alike. Perhaps upon the surface some appear otherwise but at heart, it is not so. Be patient withone another. All will render a good account for 1 Adams county, each in his own way. Each day as our burdens increase will we act more united in ill our efforts We have been already asked to give and we are giving. We are giving of our | voung manhood. We are giving to the Y. M. C. A. We are giving of our labor to the Red Cross. Now\ve are to be asked to give a large sum in dollars to the Red Cross. It will hurt 1 have not ! much to give but I must give what I can- All are going to be asked to give and we will. W e have •i duty to the sufferers that we will not shirk.Two million men to France this tall and winter. Whata host that is. What a cost that will mean just in money. Three hundred dollars a month per man is the governmental cost. Now they are going to be sick, these soldiers, and be hurt, and become exhausted. All the horrors of this most horrible war will come upon them- Ihe Red Cross will help them as Angels of Mercy help. It is a solemn duty to do it and the Red Cross will not be found slacking. The whole country will raise one hundred million dollars as a starter. This money will be raised the week of June 18th to 25th. Such a great sum. A dollar a piece for each man. woman and child in the country. Canada has already raised, for the same purpose, fourteen dollars for each person in the Dominion. The United States will have four or five times more soldiers to t&ke care of than Canada. Don’t you see what our burden wall be. ;We must keep on giving after this. Adams county will be expected to raise next w eek nearly nine " thousand dollars- Are we going to do it? It means work to do it. Will Union and Root and Ire r |ble do as well as Kirkland and Washington and St. Mary’s? The farmers of these townships will do as much per capita as the Decatur people? Surely they ought to, they sire more able. Mon*\roe and Berne and Geneva and the southern townships of the county will do their part, won they? We are not going to be selfish, we people of Adams county, but rather rise glorious \ o * : each demand made upon us. One man’s obligation to his country is just as much as another s. r, We all know that, don’t we? Now, I want to ask, please, each one to read this all over again carefully and thoughtfully and then ask himself if he doesn’t deep down in his heart fee, ’ know his duty? If you do, you will surely help. You will be solicited and you wifi be asked to t- solicit others. lam sure you will help, just all you can. Gentileland Jew, German born or* lrish 'SS Z 8 n er°v f e a " ““ ”*" *" Wd” 'aSttSStHi CROSS^ORKER

I DEATH VERY SAD. Dr. Elizabeth Rums and daughter, Mabel, returned yesterday from Huntington where they attended the tuners*. ..of Boston Adaum, husband of a cousin of theirs Death resulted from injury sustained when he as lirakeman, on his third trip out on the Erie, was injured hy the roof of a box car blowing off during a wind storm. He was but twenty years old; his widow is but nineteen and he leaves also alt eight weeks' old babe. The affair was very sad. His funeral was held Monday afternoon, the day in which the two killed, and the other fatally injured in an Erie wreck near Uniondale were taken to their homes at Huntington. SCHOOL DAYS ARE OVER As Far as St. Joseph School is Concerned, for Six Boys and Six Girls. I COMMENCEMENT HELD At K. of C. Hall Last Night Was Private—Fine Address by Rev. Seimetz. *+++++++++*+++ b GRADUATES. b b Leona Keller. b b Florence Bremerkamp. b + Lois Connell. b b Florence Holthouse b b Frances Schneider. b b Virginia Laurent. + b Arthur Hyland. + b Francis Costello. b b Theodore Baker. b b August Heimann. b b Adrian Coffee. b 4* Edmond Bosse. b b MUSIC GOLD MEDALS. * b Portia Thomas. b b Mildred Niblick. b b Alice Fetters. b bbbbbbbbbbbbbb School days for twelve in the St. Joseph high school, six girls and six boys, are over and their graduation therefrom was attended with a very excellent service at the Knights of (Continued on Page 6.)

WHERE IT GOES i* i- ’ ...... ■ > To What Funds (Jo Current Taxes of $283,389.06 Collected on 1 ' MAY INSTALLMENT 1 s Shown on Semi-Annual Distribution Sheet Made by Deputy Martin Jaberg. Deputy Auditor Martin Jaberg h is completed the semi-annual sheet, showing the distribution of the currrent taxes iti the sum of $283,389.03, I and delinquent taxes of $3,056.05 collected on the May installment. The current taxps are distributed to the various funds as follows: State tax $ 7,076.61 Benevolent institution .... 8.933.06 State sinking fund 1,339.96 j State school 12.972.43 State educational institutional 6.253.1" Vocational educational 893.29 County tax 37,518.89 Township 10.674.18 Tuition U/K32.1S Special school 4/2,651.78 Road 7.489.08 Township poor 1,413.92 Additional road 8,745.68 Corporation 27.907.11 Turnpike 17,776.’’0 Macadam road 70,939.95 Library 970.72 The various townships paid in cur- ' rent taxes the following: ' Union $11,515 98 Root 21.913.37 ' Preble 16,769.17 Kirkland 13,381.91 Washington 25,658..'<6 St. Marys 15,510.59 Blue Creek 13,072.02 Monroe 20,736.60 French 11,391.06 Hartford 14.315.r_2 Wabash 18,557.85 Jefferson 12.489.00 Decatur 59.198.’_9 Monroe 2,689.5. Berne 15,801.4. Geneva 10,237.45 L. A. Linn and family and Gottlieb Saurer motored to Decatur Sunday and visited Mr. Linn’s mother and sister.—Bluffton Banner.

PARIS GIVES WELCOME TO GENERAL PERSHING FRINGE ALEXANDER IS NOW KING OF GREECE--THE LIBERTY LOAN FUND TODAY TOTALEO 51.658.000.000.

bbbbbbbbbbbbbb b WILL YOU HELP A SCOUT? * + + b Several of the Boy Scouts are b + working like Trojans for the b b ‘“War Medal” which will be b b awarded each Scout who se- b b cures ten applications for the b b "LIBERTY LOAN BONDS." * b Each has nearly the coveted b b number and it will be a shame b b to have them fail just because + b YOU would rather go to the bank b b yourself than have a PATRIOT- b b 1C BOY take your application, b b The banker will respect you b b just as much as though you pre- b b sented the application in person, b b WON’T YOU ENCOURAGE b b THE BOY? b b HE CAN’T GO TO THE b b FRONT BUT HE IS MAKING A b b FIGHT RIGHT NOW FOR THE b b GOOD OLD U. S. A. b b Any person wishing to make b b an application for a bond will do b b double duty if he will allow a b b BOY SCOUT TO TAKE THE b b APPLICATION TO YOUR + b BANK. CALL A SCOUT OR b b DR. PATTERSON. b bbbbbbbbbbbbbb MEMORIAL SERVICES Will be Held Sunday by Three Lodges The Yeomen memorial services Sunday afternoon at the hall will open promptly at two o’clock. Rev. W. Paul Marsh will deliver the memorial sermon and as he lias another engagement for the afternoon, the mem be: t(re requested to he there promptly at two o'clock. The Red Men and Pocahontas com. cils will combine in their annual ser vices for their deceased members. Sunday afternoon at two-o’clock is the date named for the esrvice. All members are requested to be there. ■ ■ —— O MRS. C. B. SMITH BROUGHT HERE Mrs. C. B. Smith who for the past five weeks lias been critically ill ai tlie Kneipp sanitarium at Rome City, was brought here yesterday in the Murray Scherer ambulance and todav is resting quite easy at the home pf her mother, Mrs. Sarah Hammell. Sh stood the trip real well and her con dition today is very encouraging. A local physician accompanied them ov the trip.

o— — t CALLED FIRE DEPARTMENT A small fire of unknown origin started in a stable in the back part of the ' Horse Sale barn last evening about . 5:30 o’clock, but before the tire truck j reached the scene, the flames were exr tinguished by Buck Baxter, with a few pails of water. A few boys were set')) around there before and it wii" e thought that probably these boys were t smoking and started the fire. No darnel age was done lo the barn. ' IS A FAMOUS SURGEON. e [| Friends of Dr. Harry Dibble, son of S Frank Dibble, and formerly of this r city, will be pleased to know oi the C wonderful success he is making in r Detroit. Dr. Dibble has become aj ? famous surgeon and is considered the | e best in the state of Michigan. So , 0 widespread is his skill that a Buffalo | || millionaire journeyed to Detroit to . be operated on by Dr. Dibble. 1 COURT HOUSE NEWS. 0 I. Real estate transfers: Fred J. Lind--1 ley et al. to Arthur J. Delon, 160 acres d of Wabash township, sl. J! •|l Charles A. North qualified as execu- | tor of the will of his father, Henry North. His bond is $5,000.

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(United Press Rervjce) ■ Paris, June 13—(Special to Daily ‘ | Democrat) —A city frantic with en- ’ i thusiasm, streets massed with crowds ’i waving the American and French ’jflags, greeted Major General Pershing and his staff here at 6:30 this evening. Marshal Joffre and Vice Premier Viviani. minister of war, and the American Ambassador Sharp and a score of other officials greeted the American commander and his staff. A hundred thousand people thronged the street on the route of the parade, cheering Pershing. • Boulogne, France. June 13—(Spe- > eial to Daily Democraj( —Cheering » thousands, some moved to tears, wei- > corned to French soil today the com- ■ mander in chief of the army which • America is to send to join France in ■'making the world safe for democ- ■ ray. ■ ] The tall soldierly-appearing figure ■ of Major-General John J. Pershing. ■ garbed in the business like khaki or ’ the American army, was acclaimed as > France has seldom acclaimed anoth- • ey in all her history. Frenzied crowds ’ packed the streets to shout their joy • -and wave the tri-color of France with ’ the same three colors of the Star .Spangled banner. I Pershing arrived at 9:40 this ! morning. He had made a quick and I an uneventful trip over from Eng- ; land. I France has been waiting eagerly II for him to step on her soil. The tremendous reception accorded here to the commander of file American army will he hut a marker to that which Paris is preparing for 5 o’clock this afternoon when Pershing and his staff arrived at the Gare Du Nord. Pershing was deeply moved by the greeting he received. “I consider this one of the most important moments in American history,” he said. "Our arrival on French soil, constituting as we do, the advance guard of an American army, maltes us realize to the fullest tlie t importance of America’s participai tion. "Our reception has moved us most deeply. 1 can only reaffirm that 11 j America has entered the war with v the intention of performing her full f share —however great or small, the " future will dictate. Our allies can ’■ depend upon that absolutely. 8 French government officials foru mally welcomed Pershing and his staff in the name of the nation and

the Americans were taken to a spe•ial train enroute for Paris. Washington, D. C„ June 13—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Official figt ures from the treasury department , this morning placed the total Liberty Loan subscription at $1,658,000. New York is the only district which has over-subscribed its quota. London, June to Daily • Democrat) —Prince Alexander is now king of Greece. Chancellor Bonar Law announced in the house of lords late today that the second son of the deposed king had formally taken the oath and was now the monarch of all I Greece. - San Francisco, June 13—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The United 1 States revenue cutter McCullough I was sunk by the steame Governor in a collision early today, according to wireless messages received here. The revenue cutter's crew was taken off before the vessel went down and there were no casualties. Washington, D. C., June 13—(Special to Daily Democrat) —General Pershing will co-operate under the ! French General Petain and not the - British commission, as was at first ' thought. The front the first part of l (Continued on Page Four)