Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 139, Decatur, Adams County, 14 June 1917 — Page 1

Volume XV. Number 139.

t NATION FIGHTS | FOR THE HIGHT Is tlie ( on fid ent Message of President Wilson in Reconsecrating Flag Day. WAS BUT ONE CHOICE Pershing Visits Chamber of . Deputies and the Cheers Stop All Business. IS —- (United Press Service) Washington, June 14 'Special t > J Daily Democrat i America lx at war g I “in defence of our rights as a free p ' people and of our honor as a soverE I eign government." ■ President Wilson this afternoon || I thus stated why America is fighting, g? I ln 11 **l>eech solemnly vibrant wlh • I warning of the blood and suffering the K country must endure, but deep with the conviction that the nation fights K ] for the right. I The president's address was a reB consecration of flag day. It was a ‘ rpeech that stung in the bitterness of his arraignment of Germany -not of the German people but of Germany' autocrats. He pictured Germany's e L “military masters" in a sinister plot I of years of incubation, reaching out. I intriguing, •theming to deceive lite r own people and master the peop'« | and powers of other smaller nations I ' “to throw a broad belt of German I military itowrr anil political control I across the very center of Europe and I beyond the Mediterranean into the I heart of Asia." The president named Austro HunI gary as the dupe of Germany's auto I i erats. Bulgaria and Turkey their ca's- ■ paws. He earnestly inveighed against any consideration of alleged German K peace feelers put out now by those ■ who have set their net anti reach <1 ■ the zenith of their domination, now B see their power slipping and their si u- . Ester plans about to come to naug’ t. j [ Likewise he bitterly assailed German , f propagandists in the United States , E who are seeking by insidious means ■ to undermine the nation here at home. America, the president said, wars B for the first time across the seas be*'4 I cause the principles for which she , I now fights are exactly those for which . S she has waged every other victorious , | war in her history and because she was forced to fight "in defense of her . ir rights as a free people and of our honor as a sovereign government." “For us there is but one choice.” th« j president solemnly concluded. “We have made it. Woe be to the man or , group of men that seeks to stand in», ■ our way in this day of high resold--1 • tion when every principal we hold dearest is to be vindicated and made L secure for the salvation of the nations BL AVe are ready to plead at the bar of history and our flag shall wear a now I lustre. Once more we shall make < Ms good with our lives and fortunes the I great faith to which we were born,

— your flag and my flag (By Wilbur D. Nesbit) Your flag and my flag. And how it flies today In vour land and my land And half the world away! BL Rose-red and blood-red The stripes forever gleam; Snow-white and soul-white— The good forefathers’ dream; . Skv-blue and true blue, with stars to gleam aright— The gloried guidon of the day; a shelter through the night. Your flag and my flag! To every star and stripe The drums beat as hearts beat And lifers shrilly pipe! Your flag andlmy flag— A blessing in the sky; Your hope and my hope— It never hid a lie! „ .. i.mJ mH far land and half the world around, | OldiTjlory hears our glad salute and ripples to the sound. Your flag and my flag! And, oh, how much it holds— Your land and my land— Secure within its folds. Your heart and my heart Beat quicker at the sight; Sun-kissed and wind-tossed— Red and blue and white. a flairthe flag for me and you— I M «nd\h i(e and bloej

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and a new glory shall shine in the face of our poople." * Paris, June 14 (Special to Daily Democrat)- Major General Pershing was tumultously cheered this afternoon when he and Ambassador Sharp . visited the French chamber of deputies. The applause was so grc-it that all business was suspended. The American army commander seemed greatly affected anil howwd lr|>ralediy. • BULLETIN Washington, June 14 -(Special to Daily Democrat I Japan is sending a diplomatic mission to the United States, which will leave about July 1, it was officially stated today. BULLETIN (By Carl D. Groat. United Press staff correspondent.) Washington. June 14 (Special to: Daily Democrat) Relations between: the United States and Japan, upset ] the delicate over a misunderstanding as to America’s purposes in China, j wore straightened out satisfactorily today, through explanations sent to , the American ambassy in Tokio. At the same time an investigation was started to ascertain the source of a bogus note purporting to have been cabled from New York to Tokio. which .aroused resentment in Japan. Paris. June 14—(Special to Daily Democrat) —“litter failure" of small] German attacks around Braye, north • of Craonne. north of Rheims and on the left bank of the Meuse, was reported in today's official statement. The assaults followed a general bom bardment of those positions. French forces carried out a successful raid, cleaning up a German trench east of Navaring farm, and taking ten prisoners. Paris. June 14 -(Special to Daily L Democrat)—Major General Pershing lunched today at Elysee palace with , President Poincare and other French notables. He was in close confer- , ence with French war office leaders most of the day and his headquarters , in the Hotel Crillon were a scene of■, constant activity. I1 i BULLETIN London. June 14 —(Special to Daily . Democrat) —Abandonment of important sections of first lines between the i river Lys and St. Yves, by the Ger-] mans because of the tremendous pressure of the British advance east of. Messines, was announced by Field Marshal Haig today. 1 "Our further advance to the east of, Messines, combined with our pressure] to the south compelled the enemy to abandon important sections of their first line between the Lys and St. Yves." the British commander in chief asserted. The victory thus gained by the Brit-, ish forces again emphasized the doin- 1 hiating strength of the WytschaeteMessines ridge, taken in last week’s great assault. The territory surrendered to the British forces, the German] retirement still further back in thes triangle. formed by the river Lys and the Yprres-Lille canal, the point of which is at Comines where the two waterways join. The enemy's position in ] this salient is exceedingly precarious, • due to the river and the canal hampering ranid operations on their part and, f Continued on Page Two)

Decatar, Indiana, Thursday Evening, .lune 14, 1917.

SUMMONS COMES t - ■ For Spirit of Mrs. Clark .1. Lutz—Passed Into Better World This Morning ii AT THREE O’CLOCK , Decline of Three Years Results in Death—Funeral Services Sunday. A decline of health for three years that persisted in spite of the best efforts of science to thwart it, resultied in the passing into that better [ life at three o'clock this morning, of i Anna M. Lewis-Lutz, fifty five, wife of Attorney Clark J. Lutz, at their home on Mercer avenue. Heart trouble, with its complications. failed to yield to the treatment of the best specialists and nurses and the many things that all loving hands could do, and even the change of di- ' mate to Florida, where she spent the severe months of winter, while it undoubtedly prolonged her life, failed to provide more than a brief stay of the fatal decree. i In her death the city loses one of its real ladies in the truest sense of the word, and one whose talents in music and other accomplishments of a refining nature have been devoted to service for the uplift of others. Born in Zanesville. Ohio, September 22. 18G2. the daughter of Dr. J. V. Lewis, later of Richmond. Indiana, the greater part of Mrs. Lutz’ life has been passed in this city. At the age of seventeen years, she came to fhis city in 1879, to make her home with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph McGonagle. She was highly talented and accomplished in music. In 1879 and 1880 she atended the conservatory of music at Fort Wayne and in 1883 and 1884 she received instruction in music from Professor Emil Liebling, pf Chicago. She devoted her entire iife to the continuance of the devel(Continued on Page Two) o INSTRUCTOR DEAD One of Institute Workers Here Last August Died at Indianapolis Home. DEATH WAS DUE To Illness of Cancerous Nature—Popular Instructor in Primary Work. Adams county teachers who heard Mrs. Julia Fried Walker, one of the I educational workers at the Adams i county teachers’ institute held here j last August, will be grieved to hear i of her death which resulted the latter part of last week at her home in Indianapolis. Death was due to an affliction of a cancerous nature. Mrs. Walker was instructor in priI mary work in the institute here and j was one of the most popular lecturers ever heard here in work of this kind. She was also noted in work as a lecturer in farmer’s institutes. After the death of her husband, who was editor of the state journal, Mrs. Walker took charge and conducted j that for a long time. Burial took place at Worthington, i Indiana. o— MONROE TO RAISE FLAG. The town of Monroe, one of the pa- | triotic spots of the county, where the | citizens have taken a leading part in j Red Cross, Liberty Bonds, Y. M. C. | A. and from where have come a number of recruits, as •well as Clinton Kerr, first Adams county man to go to the trenches, will hold a flag raising next Sunday afternoon at two o’clock. It will be a great event and worthy your presence. The program includes addresses by Hon. R. O. Johnson, mayor of Gary; Lieutenant Harry O. Jones of Berne now a member of the U. 8. medical corps, and awaiting a call to the colors; Rev. W. Paul Marsh of this city. Besides these there will be music by the Decatur male quartet, the Decatur City band, and a flag drill by the junior drill team of the Monroe Shnday school.

I SUPERINTENDENT'S MEETING I ttlnlted Press Service) Indianapolis, June 14 County sup erintendonts of schools of Indiana met here today for their sixty-find an- • mini meeting t<z discuss the year’s work and make plans for the next school term. The sessions, which will continue for two days, are being held in (lie house of representatives chart-1 l>er in the eapitol building. Speakers at today's meeting wore; | Wesley A. Stockinger, of Columbia' university; Lee Driver. Randolph cotta-1 1 ty; Joint F. Haines, stale manager of the reading circle and S. I» Clark, if Scott county. PARCELS POST AND CANDY The postponed parcels post and candy sale of the Ruth Circle of the Christian church will be held Saturday evening at the gas office. A fine assortment of parcels will lie in stock ami each girl of the circle is asked to bring! a supply of homemade candies for the I sale also. The public is cordially t.i-l vited. The sale will probably begin ; at seven o’clock and continue duringtlie evening. storioWage ■ — I Hothouse and Spuhler Each Lose Horses—Struck by I Lightning Yesterday. BUILDINGS DAMAGED i On Light, Gilpen and Other Farms—The Gephart i House Struck. i i The electrical and wind storm that t arose yesterday afternoon about 3:30 o'clock and which was accompanied * with a heavy fall of rain in this vicinity, did considerable damage east 1 of this city for seven miles, and also ' in the vicinity of Wren. Ohio. A horse valued at about $125. was ' killed in a field on the Felix Holt- ' house farm a mile and a half east of this city, when struck by lightning j. A small building was blown down and ' other minor damage done, including the death of little chickens. A horse belonging to Dallas Spuhler was struck by lightning in the field and ] killed. At the Reuben Gilpen place east of this city a summer kitchen was blown over; at the Graydon Light farm a silo was blown down, together with the pump house and doors from the barn were blown off Igirge trees about twelves inches 1 in diameter in the woods on tlie Henry Krick farm were torn out and trees were uprooted in several locali- j ties. Near Wren, Ohio, the Adam Gephart house was struck by lightning the chimneys damaged, plastering knocked off and other damage was done. Insurance was carried in the Decatur Insurance Agency. Reports were also current that minor damage, in the tearing off of barn doors 1 at the David Studabaker farm, also 1 resulted. _ o IS MOVING TODAY I I Office of Holland-St. Louis Sugar Co. Moving from Postoffice Building TO THE NEW BUILDING Located on Factory Ground — Up-to-date Stuccoed Building Complete. The offices of the Holland-St. Louis Sugar company are being moved today from the rooms over the postoffice to the company's new building , located west of the main entrance of . the sugar factory north of the city. , The office building just completed I is a one-story stuccoed building, coni taining four rooms on the ground floor and three rooms in- the baset ment. It is equipped with lavatory . and the most modern equipment, and I is an ideal office building in all ways. THIRD RANK TONIGHT. s The third rank degree will be givy en tonight by the Knights of Pythias r at the K. of P. home. All members r are requested to be present at eight . o'clock.

EDITOR MARRIED 1 E. 11. Sprunger, Editor of Berne Witness, Married i] at Middletown, 0. TO ,L HELEN KENNEL Bride Teacher in the Berne High School Last Winter —At Home at Berne. Tuesday at 4 p. m. E. H. Sprunger, editor of the Witness, and Miss J Helen Kennel were married at the beautiful colonial country home of the bride's father, Rudolph Kennel, near ' West Middletown. Ohio. The ceremony was read by Dr.. S. 1 IK. Mosiman, president of Bluffton 1 college, of Bluffton, Ohio, in the pres i ence of the members of the immediI ate families and a large number of | relatives and friends. Miss Alma) I Kennel played Lohengrin's wedding march as the bride and bridegroom I and the flower girl, little Mildred] Sprunger, entered the large living! room, and Mendelssohn's wedding march after the ceremony as those! present offered congratulations. Mrs. C. T. Habegger sang. "Oh. Promise] Me.” prior to the playing of Lohengrin's wedding march. The bride was dressed in white Georgette crepe and the groom in i blue serge. After an elegant reception and the | bestowing of gifts the brieve and | bridegroom made a sudden get-away | by auto. They entrained at West Middletown for Hamilton or Cincinnati. They are expected here on tlie ' northbound this (Wednesday) afternoon. Miss Kennel is the third daughter of Rudolph Kennel. . She graduated with the first class of A. B. standing from Bluffton college in 1915 and was ] a teacher in the Berne high school last wintei*. Mr. Sprunger is the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Sprunger. After graduating from the local (Continued on Page Two) o WERE FINE HOSTS Ft. Wayne Ben Hurs Entertain Decatur Delegation Decatur Team I ( INITIATED A CLASS And Put on Fancy Drill Afterwards — Chicken Dinner Was Served. The large delegation of Decatur Ben i Hurs who made the trip bv special car to Fort Wayne last evening, where I they were guests of the Fort Wayne Tribes report a very good time. The I Decatur team initiated a class of ten | or twelve Fort Wayne candidates, and after tlie degree work, the new Deca-1 tur team put on a fancy drill. They ] did exceedingly well and were highly! complimented. The Fort Wayne Tribe were lavish in their hospitality and served a fine banquet, consisting of chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy and all the other things that go with a complete dinner, including, of course, ice cream and cake. The delegation returned home after the midnight, hour. o FIREMAN WILSON DEAD Bluffton. Ind., June 14 —The Chicago and Erie freight wreck near Uniondale claimed its third victim yesterday when Fireman J. O. Wilson, the orfly survivor of the three men who were riding on the engine, passed away nt the Huntington hospital. He made a brave fight for life and insisted until the last that he would recover. He suffered from scalds involving nearly all of his body and was partially paralyzed from an injury to the spine. Coroner Thoma's verdict will show merely that the men were killed from the explosion of the engine and will leave to experts tlie question of the cause of the explosion. ATTEND STATE MEETING E. S. Christen, superintendent of the ; county schools, went to Indianapolis this morning to attend a meeting of superintendents.

I GEORGE KENNEDY DEAD The J. 11. Voglewede family reeeivI i d a telegram of the death of George j Kennedy, well knowb hardware deals or of Union City, well known here in Knights of Colurnlius circles and other wise. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schaub left I last night to attend the funeral whi it w:i< h<-Id tills morning. Mr. Schaub entered Kennedy's store as a young man, and acquainted himself witli tlie ‘ business, the relationship assuming i that of father and son. so closely were , they bound together. His death is a keen loss to Mr. Schaub. 'l’lio widow and three children are living. TO HAVE Mrs. Effie Grimm Draper, accompanied by hfr hushand. Will Draper, and their children, and her sister, Mrs. Edna Deam. went to Ft. Wayne I this afternoon, where Mrs. Draper will enter the Lutheran hospital for an operation for appendicitis tomor- | row. Her children will be eared for ] by her sister, Mrs. Deam, who rej sides in Fort Wayne. THE FINAL DRIVE Federal Reserve and Fletcher Representatives Here to Urge Bond Sale. TOMORROW LAST DAY Jesse G. Niblick Files Application for Bonds to the Amount of $5,000. Mr. Evans of the federal, reserve Dank of Chicago and R. I). Jackson of the Fletcher-American National bank of Indianapolis are here todayurging a faster pace in the final drive of the sale of Liberty Loan i bonds, the campaign to dose row noon, by which time it is expected that at least one-half the allotment will have been taken. A meeting of the representatives of the various banks was held this morning and it was decided to meet the demands. I As the closing hours of the big | campaign arrive the people of this community are buying bonds, today's applications running up into the I many thousands. The largest single subscription made public was that of [ Jesse G. Niblick, who today applied for $5,000 worth of the bonds through the Old Adams County bank. Mr. Dugan reports two sales of SIO,OOO each. There are many incidents which go to prove the patriotism of our citizens. One man this morning borrowed SI,OOO with which to buy tlie 3% per cent bonds, saying as he did so he was glad to make the small sacrifice for his government. o THEY ORGANIZE I • Red Cross Directors Select G. T. Burk as President —The Other Officers. ' NAME THE CAPTAINS Who Will Meet With Them Tonight to Complete Plan for the Campaign. The work of organizing tlie Red Cross drive which under proclamation by the president begins June 18 and continues until June 25th, during which time this county is expected > to raise $8,750 of the one hndred miilJ ion dollars, is going along. A meeting ‘ of the managers was held last evening f and another this morning, the followB ing officers being chosen: * G. T. Burk, president. i John Niblick, treasurer. 1 C. J. Voglewede, secretary. ’ The managers also selected the r captains, one for each of the six north ’■ townships and one for Decatur as follows: r Union—C. S. Mtimma. 1 Root—C. D. Kunkle. 1 Treble—John Miller, trustee. ? Kirkland—E. E. Zimmerman. Washington—Frank Heiman. St. Marys—Henry Colter. Decatur—J. W. Bosse. > The managers and captains will i meet tonight at 7:30 at the offices of fj the Bowers Realty Company to furth|er complete plans.

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ROTARIANS BOT - LIBERTY BONDS II r Members of the Decatur Ro- " tary Club Subscribe T About $4,090.00 5 TO LIBERTY LOAN Subscriptions Were Taken at Meeting—Will Assist the Boy Scouts. Suhscriptions towards (he big Uherty Ixian of 1917 by members of the Decatur Rotary Club will total about $4,000. Ladt evening at a very enthusiastic meeting heid at the Madison hotel, tlie Liberty Loan cause was the main subject of discussion and before I the meeting adjourned nearly every ] member present filled out one of the application blanks for one, two or more of the tends. Charles Merryman, of Paragould, Ark., and brother in-law of Avon Burk, president qf the local club was a guest of the boys and stepping forward volunteered to make liis application ior some of the bonds through the Rotary club and one ..f the local banks; His offer was gladly accepted and an application fir SSOO worth was handed in, thus giving that much credit to the Adams county allotment of the Lilierrty Ixian Bonds. Dr. Fred Patterson. Capt. of the Boy Scouts then told tlie club of the efforts and patriotic steps being taken by the little fellows in the act of seeming subscriptions to the Liberty Loan and also stated that tlie government had made an offer that any Scout securing ten applications for the Liberty Loan would be awarded a medal. Acting upon this suggestion the club voted that the applications of the members be handed to the Boy Scouts, they to turn them as one to the banks and receive the credit and possibly a medal. The members who had already subscribed towards the loan agreed in some cases to take another bond. These who were not present and have not subscribed will be solicited by the Boy Scouts. Counting the subscriptions made last night and those already made by some of the members tlie total subscription will easily reach $4.(100. The cluli also discussed (he idea of getting liack to the Fourth of July celebration. A toast was given upon the reading of a letter from Arch C. Klump'i, president of the International Association of Rotary Clubs in which lie stated that the application of tlie local club was accepted and that the Decatur Rotary Club was taken into the membership of the International association. Avon Burk will leave Friday for Atlanta, being the delegate of the local club to the national convention, whose slogan will be “He profits most who serves best.” The dull will meet in another two weeks. SAVE CHERRY AND PEAR TREES Press Service) Indianapolis, June 14—Foliage of cherry and pear trees are severly damaged each year by the larvee of a. small saw fly and orchardists should take pains to protect their trees, according to a statement issued today by Frank N. Wallace, state entomologist. ri, “Sometimes the leaves are so severI ly injured that they have the appearance or having been burned." the < statement says. "The flies Uy their , eggs under the .skin of the leaves, j When small they are nearly white but as they grow, a dark slimy secret! >n . covers them ami they look almost black. Wherever they are noticed the trees should be sprayed with »,-- senatwwif lead or they can be dusted with air slacked lime which sticks o the slime on the bodies of the larvee and dries them up. On small trees in tlie city, they can be washed off by turning a strong stream of water from a hose on the leaves." o WILL JOIN DENTAL RESERVE (United Press Service) Indianapolis, June 14 Sixty-three seniors of Indiana dental college aft r receiving their degrees today, prepared to join the dental officers reserve corps to prepare for commissions as first lieutenants in th§ medical cor.is . of the army. The men will probably : be sent to a training camp shortly to • receive final instructions for their work in the army.