Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 150, Decatur, Adams County, 27 June 1917 — Page 1

Volums XV. Number 150.

FIRST U. S, TROOPS HAVE REACHED FRANCE PERSHING'S SOLDIERS ARRIVE IN A FRENCH PORT TODAY AND WERE RECEIVED AMIDST SCENES OF ENTHUSIASM.

(United Press Service) A French Port, June 27— (Special to Daily Democrat) — The first de|£chment of American troops has landed on French soil. The troops are Pershing’s regular army men. The journey from an American port was made in safety. The work of disembarking. the American soldiers was pro-' ceeding rapidly today. The French people gave them an enthusiastic welcome. The troops marched from the piers to the temporary camp that had been selected sometime previous, amid a great demonstration. I The harbor was the center of great activity as the troops were discharged from the ship and as the unloading of a vast' amount of paraphernalia took place. This is the first story to be published regarding the troops dispatched to France. The number and identity of the troops cannot be revealed beyond the fact that they are units of the regular army. Several Decatur and Adams county boys are with the first troops to reach France. Washington. D. C., June 27— (Special to Daily Democrat) — The senate today passed the daylight saving bill. The measure provides that beginning April. 1918, and for a period of five months all clocks shall be put forward one hour and for the same five months each year thereafter.

London. June 27—(Special to 11 Daily Democrat) —Submarine sinking for the last week which o will be announced tonight will J show a large increase over the last announcement, it was r learned today. i The announcement of last » week gave details of the worst sinkings with the exception of two since the war began. ■ a Washington, I). C., June 27— ' (Special to Daily Democrat)— Beer was given the knockout ‘ blow by the senate agricultural ’ committee today. After a subcommittee had left it to the 1 president for the decision as to i its life or death the full com- i mi tee today killed it 8-7 in con- t sidering the food bill. Ihe 1 full committee then adopted f the bone dry amendment to the i bill adding a provision that will ] enable the president to bar the production ot wine if deemed 1 necessary for the conservation I of perishable foods. Ihe eflect ( of this action if it is approved , by the senate will create abso-i lute prohibition of the manu- . facture of beer and whiskey ] during the war. BULLETIN. Washington. D. C„ June 27-(Spe- ( cial to Daily Democrat)—That King Leopold of Bavaria, commanding German forces, has conspired with the Russian agitator, Lenine, toward getting a general peace without annexation of contribution was the deduction from a state department message received today. The message said Lenine ia< spoken before the Russian workmen’s ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦*! * hang out the flag. +1 T * Hugh Hite, Herman Ehinger + * and Carlisle Flanders have been +. * named as a committee to invite + * every one in Decatur to deco- + ( + rate Friday evening for the pa- * triotic meeting. Be sure to dec- ♦ + orate your place of business and * your residence. Be a booster +

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and soldiers' congress June 22, in favor of a general peace. M. Vierensky then spoke, announcing he would repeat Lenine's speech. Heading from a manuscript he practically duplicated the agitator's utterances, whereupon he announced that the document was in reality an intercepted wireless signed by the king of Ba varia. I The conclusion from this is that Lenine received the message and delivered it as his speech. I Vierensky's revelation stirred the congress. | The extreme socialists had plan ned an anti-government demonstration for June 23. but abandoned the | idea after the government prohibited the assemblage. The government had the support of the congress in this step. 4 I Paris, June 2^—(Special to Daily Democrat) —So thoroughly complete I was the French victory of yesterday | In the Hurtebise sector that today the Germans did not attempt the usual counter-attacks, today’s official statement related . An artillery duel was still in progress in the Hurtebise sector, but there were no infantry a.tions. "The enemy positions captured inlelude the dragon's cave, a formidable stronghold from which counterattack had been launched,” the war office I stated. “A large amount of material was taken. 1 -In the Champagne there was a sue cessful French raid on Maison De Champagne.” Providence, R. 1., June 27 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Automatic steal arms which reach out from German suitmarines and push them away from the allies’ trap nets are saving the German U-boats and increasing the

under-sea menace, according to a “statement from a British government official,” published by the Providence Journal today. The increasing gravity of the U-boat menace is everywhere admitted m inner circles of the British admiralty," says the statement. "Another menace making for shortage of shipping is the fact that available tonnage shrinks through severe use in war work, very rapidly. The shrinkage is even greater than the actual tonnage of ships sunk by submarines." London. June”27—(Special to Daily Democrat)—German troops are falling steadly back into Lens and preparing to make desperate resistence to the British assault on that city. Every front dispatch today emphasized the steady enroachment of the British lines round the chief coal city cf France. Field Marshal Haig has so far not utilized a genral assault movement to achieve his gains about the city, since the general British offensive brought troops within striking distance. Instead, he is adopting the plan of “biting away" with small, local attacks here and all around the city—each “bites” taking a little more ground. Throughout. British artillery is raining shells. This type of attack has resulted in amazingly insignificant losses to the British. The German commanders have been preparing for relinquishment of Lens for a month, realizing sooner or later a general mass attack by Haig would sweep them out. A systematic plan of destruction of the city’s factories, coal mining plants and shafts nearby was put into operation weeks ago, according to reports of aviators. I London, June 27— (Special to Daily Democrat)— Sinking by a submarine lof the American sailing ship Galina from Rouen to New York, was anI nounced in an admiralty statement today. There were no casualties. Fifteen survivors reached Brest today. The submarine sunk the ship, off Us- ■ hant with bombs. , j no vessel Galina is listed in Lloyds > register.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening, June 27. 1917.

LOCAL TAG DAY Tri-Kappa Young Ladies Will Decorate You With a Badge of Honor. SATURDAY THE DAY Will Give Services That Day for Boys of Company A —Get Coin Ready. Saturday is Tag Day.

Tlte Tri-Kappa girls, twenty-five young ladies, will devote their time to an effort to raise money for a comj pany fund for Company A. They will bin three cornered white tags on every body and solicit from them a small donation or a large one if you prefer, any thing from a dime up and the children can show their loyalty with a nickel or a penny. It is the hope of these patriotic and splendid young ladies that they can raise at least a hundred dollars for the fund which is to lie used to par ! chase necessary articles for the boys in camp. Do you know that the soldiers are not provided with bi" cream and other articles that we fe«l most necessary to complete a meal and they can only secure them buy having a cash fund on hands. It 's important you do your bit for tills as you have for the other calls. The Tri-Kappa girls will begin work during the morning and continue throughout the day. Wear a tag. o_______ TO BE TRAINED NURSE Miss Agnes Gillig. who is employed at Castello, 0.. is here for a week's visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Gillig. of Mercer avenue. She comes to assist her sister. Miss Celia Gillig in getting ready to enter a nurses' training school at Toledo, 0., next week for a three years' course. HOMAGE IS GIVEN To Luther —The Four Hundredth Anniversary of Reformation Celebrated BY THE SYNOD

In Convention at Milwaukee—Rev. Hinz and Others from Here Attend. The Milwaukee Sentinel tells further, in part, of the tri-ennial meeting of the Lutheran synod now in session there, which is attended by the Rev. Hinz, of the Decatur Zion Lutheran church and by others of the county: i The auditorium was filled Sunday afternoon when thousands of Milwaukee Lutherans and 1000 delegates if the Lutheran synod of Missouri, Ohio and other states met to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of the Reformation, which will be observed during the summer and fall in every community in the country, reaching i ; s climax on Oct. 31, the date of the nailing of the famous ninety-five theses to the door of the castle church at Wittenberg by Martin Luther. The first part of the program was in German. The Rev. H. Sprengler, pastor of Trinity church, opened the meet ing with prayer and scripture reading, apostle’s creed and a male chorus of 400 voices, directed by Prof. H. P. Baumgart sang two hymns. Music was also furnished by a children’s chorus of 1,000 boys and girls, who sang “God is Our Refuge," by Hahn, and "Praise My Soul, the King of Heaven,” I y Gauntlett. under the leadership of Prof. A .A. Gross. President W. Kohn, of Concordia Teachers' seminary, Oak Park, 111., spoke in Gerpian on “Luther, the Reformer of Education.” The speaker in English was Prof. F. Bente of Concordia seminary, St. Louis, who spoke on “Luther, the Reformer of the Church,” Dr. William Dallman of Mount Olive church pronounced the benediction. At the service Sunday night, the speaker in English was Prof. George Remoser of Concordia college. Bronxville, N. Y. The Rev. Oscar Kaiser, of Bethle-

hem church gave the opening prayer and scripture reading and the Rev. Edward Albrecht, president ot the south ern Wisconsin district, pronounced tlte benediction. The music was by a mixed chorus under the direction of 0. Jaeger. TRIBUTE OF RESPECT Samuel Jacob Helm, son of Mr. and I Mrs. George Helm, was born May lt>, i 1870 and dropped dead May 31, 1917. j He was born in Adams county, Ind., 13 miles northeast of Decatur, Ind. He leaves a beloved sister and wife and a host of friends to mourn his death. He has gone home to meet our Fath er, mother, brother and sister who have gone on before him and the best of all to God that gave him to us nnd who had u right to take him home with Him. We hope and trust in God that we may live so that we can meet him in Heaven whore there won't be any more sorrow and care, and now all happiness, our father and brother sleeps beneath the Kansas sod and the rest sleep beneath the Indiana sod, in the Union Chapel graveyard close to their dear old home. From his lonely sister. Mrs. Ettia Sheline, who lives in Delaplaine. Ark. PLANS MADE FOR PATRIOTIC EVENT To he Held in City Friday Night to Create Interest in Recruiting. WITH BIG PARADE Rev. Folsom and Captain Ryan of Ft. Wayne Will

be on the Program. Another big patriotic demonstration to celebrate “Enlistment week” and to create greater interest in the. important work of recrtWling. wifi Li' held in this city at eight o’clock Friday evening of this week. The speakers for the occasion will he the Rev. Dr. Folsom, pastor of the Congregational church, of Fort Wayne and Captain Thomas F. Ryan, of the regular army, now doing recruiting work at the Fort Wayne station, Rev. W. Paul Marsh, of this city. Music will be furnished by the men’s quartet and the city band. Proceeding the program which is to be rendered at the court house there will be a street parade and demonstration in charge of R. D. Myers, chairman of the county council of defense. Farmers are asked to bring in their autos and join in the parade. Be sure to come for this big patriotic event. Its Friday night of this week.

YOUNG MAN DEAD Hubert French, Hay and Grain Dealer of Linn Grove, Died Today at PENNVILLE HOSPITAL Following an Operation Yesterday — Resulted from an Abscess. Hubert Frencr., aged twenty-seven, owner of the feed mill, and well known grain and hay dealer at Linn Grove, died this morning at the Penville hospital where he was operated upon yesterday afternoon. liast fall he underwent an operation for appendicitis. Later an abcess formed and the operation yesterday afternoon was for that . The immediate surviving relatives of the young man are: his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Amos French, of Linn Grove,

his wife, formerly Miss Bessie Kindle

and their two young children, Kenneth and Elizabeth; his three sisters, Mrs. Wilson Banter, of Linn Grove; Mrs. Charles Beery, of Domestic, and Mrs. Cletus Gentis, of near Bluffton. The body was brought to the home at Linn Grove this morning but funeral arrangements were unknown at this time.

HIGHWAY TALK I li ' Hoosier State Automobile Assn. Planning System of Marked Trails. ii THROUGH THE STATE , Commission is This Week Planning for 2,000 Miles ’ of Market Road. t i * a Tlte Hoosier State Automobile asI soclation is at this time planning the t organization of a comprehensive sys- ? tern of marked automobile trails in Indiana, and to connect with the or jganized and marked trails, and trails! J to be marked, in the adjoining states. ■ ( They are seeking reliable information as to the best roads and routes. This information must he furnished I by and through the highway super- i 1 intendent of the highways of Adams ■ county in the way of maps and data as to traffic, and the extent of the traffic over one road as to the other, which comes under the new law of 1 1917. chapter 87, section 8, making it his duty to furnish all necessary information demanded of him by the .Indiana highway comission. The Hoosier State Automobile association will have a meeting at the Claypool hotel, July 2, at 1:30 p. m„ following which will be the annual banquet. the menu to consist of clams, lobsters, blue fish, chicken. Irish potatoes. sweet potatoes, corn on the ,coli. plenty of good bread and butter and suitable beverages. Your presence is requested. The highway commission met yesterday for a several days’ session, at which time they will take up tile matter of the 2,000 miles of main market highways. During this meeting Adams county’s dope must be presented. Please hand me anything

you maye have of importance on this question of main market highways, (etc. JIM A. HENDRICKS. o A BENEFIT TEA For Company A Will be Given by Civic Improvement Society Thursday AT CHAS. KNAPP HOME Autos Will Convey Guests —Everybody is Invited to Come. The ladies of the Civie Improvei ment society will give an informal I tea at the home of Mrs. Charles j Knapp, Mercer avenue, Thursday aftlernon from 3:30 to 5:30. This will be preceded by a short I business session and all officers, | chairmen and members of committees I having bills to present are urgently l requested to be present at this session. Automobiles will convey ladies meteing at the home of Mrs. J. H. Heller. s A ten cent collection will be taken and the proceeds given to the fund benig raised for Company A. If you cannot go won’t you hand your dime to some one who is going and help make the afternoon collection as big as possible.

A special invitation is extended to all high school girls. The following ladies have charge of the afternoon’s i entertainment: Miss Bess Congleton, Mrs. L. A. Graham, Mrs. Anker, Mrs. F. E. France, Mrs. F. M. Schirmeyer, Mrs. Charles Knapp, assisted by the Misses Fannie Heller, Jirene Gregory, Gladys Flanders and Alta Teeple. Every lady and every girl in Deca- | tur is cordially invited to spend a pleasant hour in Mrs. Knapp’s home to help swell the fund for Com- , pany A. —o DATA IN GOOD SHAPE . In this issue appears a statement by . Jim A. Hendricks, county road superintendent, which should be of interest (to all who like good roads and want I ( better ones. Mr. Hendricks has pre- . sented his data and these reports ini'eluding his maps are not excelled by ■ any county in the state we venture to assert. Adams county is known as | a good roads territory.

’ AND WHY NOT DO IT? I [ In lasi nights Dally Democrat I read an editorial urging war on weeds. That’s what I say. 100, and I also think > some thing should bo done—AT ONCE -about the cesspool that stands on the Erie right-of-way between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. It empties in an open ditch and the stench is fierce. Not only that but it makes a ’ fine breeding place for flies and m<>- ' i squitos. Let the Erie either tear it out or build a good one and drain the ditch, take out the ties which lay soaking In It and fill it up. It would make quite an improvement for both the railroad and the adjoining property. M. B. S. FUNERAL HELD TUESDAY Funeral services for Leßoy Saner, I babe of Mr .and Mrs. Phillip Sauer llv- ! ing southwest of Fort Wayne were ' held Tuesday morning at ten o’clock!' i from the house. The babe died of|( leakage of the heart. Interment was , made in the Concordia Cemetery. WILL ORGANIZE i Berne Men Here to Get In- i formation Concerning Boy Scout Movement. Fl BOYS OF BERNE ( S t Are Very Anxious to Have ? a Troop There—Some ' Opposition. V — r Dr. C. H. Schenk and J. E. Rinaker, v of Berne, to men who uelieve that 'li the boy is a subject worth working 1 t with and for. were in the city last eve- 1 ning. Hie guests of Dr. Patterson, for ]:

the purpose of getting the information needed to otganize a troop of Boy | Scouts in their home town. Both men I are very popular with the boys of I Berne and this fact, togther with the fact that they see wonderful possibilities for the hoys in the Scout work, land are very much taken with the I ideas of the organization, has l*-d them to the decision of giving some of their time to the boys. As a matter of fact. Dr. Schenk stated, it was “Do or Die” for the boys had threaten-! ed mob violence, forcible expulsion from town and various other dire penalties if the men would not take up the work. There is some little feeling in Berne that the Boy Scout work is simply a start toward military service. That is a very grave mistake and due to nothing but plain everyday ignorance of the subject. The military idea Is decried in all Scout work and the near est approach to it is the teaching of preparedness, which will stand a boy well in hand under any existing conditions where help and aid is needed. 1 Another thing which should be known i of the Boy Scout movement is that it is emphatically non-sectarian. These days we are giving of outtime, money and services to every call made on us and we forget the boys - the greatest asset of and community.! It means some sacrifice to the man takes up the work and it is work that is almost impossible for one man to do alone. If there are any men in this city, young or old. who would be willing to help the boys a little bit they may feel sure that they can “get job" by applying to Dr. Patterson. Dozens of boys are anxious to become Scouts but one man is limited to a certain number and National Headquaiters will not under any conditions permit him to have more than that number in his troop. That the movement is a popular one is attested by the fact that there are now nearly 350.000 registered Scouts in this country alone and that nnnibei is being increased at the rat of over 1,000 a day. DEWEY'S FLAGSHIP FLOODED (United Press Service) Washington, June 27 (Specia Dailv Democrat)- Admiral Deweys flagship, the cruiser Olympia, ashore and flooding off Block island, may have fought her last fight. Navy despatches early today said she was in no added danger, though press reports said she was in a bad wa y. The Olympia grounded while bound outward for target practice. With crew members taken off. the vessel finally rested “easily” in four and a half fathoms on the edge or a shoal. Both engine rooms were flooded at I last reports.

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CASE REVERSED Judgment in Which Jury Gave Charles Elmore ' $1,002 Damages TO WIFE AND AUTO Reversed—Union Traction Co. Wins Out—Case from Wells (dimly. The appellate court has revertc’d the judgment of the Adams circuit court on a verdict of the jury rendered, December 28, 1914. in the case of Charles A. Elmore vs. The Union Tracition Company of Indiana, the case being one sent here from Wells county. The jury gave Elmore the sum of $1,1)02 witli six per cent interest from June 12, 1914. for damages sustained by Elmore's wife and automobile. Tlie traction company appealed and won out. The Indianapolis Star’s court department gives following detail-;: "Union Traction Company of Indiana vs. Charles A. Elmore. Adams C. C. Reversed. Batman. J. (1) Case of damages to wife and automobile. Instructions, which do not contain the technical expression that tlie negligence was a proximate cause of injury but which tell the jury in such a manner that it must have caused it as would not mislead the jury, are not reversible error. A directed verdict must contain all the elements, but will be reasonably construed to uphold it. (2) Tlie complained instruction No. 5 is not to be construed to relieve appellee of all care in the approach of tlie car tracks where the or-

I 'dinance required warning of approach • of car and no warning was given, but i the, instruction is not approved. (1) i It is no error to assume in instructions ■ injuries which are proved beyond 'question. (4) The twelfth instruction , regarding acts under impulse is mtsI leading by reason of lack of full statement. (5) The fourteenth instruction that persons about to cross track in city are not required to stop, look and listen, is not correct, as conditions f surrounding the crossing will govern the amount of care which is required (6) Instruction seventeen cannot be sustained upon any hypothesis, whether last clear chance or other, but eighteen is not objectionable. (7) Instruction nineteen upon last clear chance which did not cover the matter that appellee was either ignorant or unable to escape was error. (8) instruction twenty that if appellee 'lid what he thought was best after discovery of danger, he was not guilty of contributory negligence, was error, as it set up wrong standard of care. o — DAN NIBLICK A GUEST Dan Niblick was at VanWert. Ohio i yesterday where he was royally entertained by the business men, together with other merchants of this association. The Van Wert Bulletin says: ■| “The Tri-State Retail Dry Goods Association. composed of merchants in ■ Ohio, Indiana and Michigan towns, is ' holding a business meeting here to'(day, agreeable to its custom of a sesj sion every two months to talk shop. ■ i The principal officers of the Associa|tion are H. M. Gee. president, and F. ■i E. Bigelow, secretary and treasurer, f who, along with other VanWert retail i merchants and the VanWert Overall ’I Manufacturing Co., are extending the ■(courtesies to the visitors. The meeting opened with a luncheon at noon, at the Hotel Marsh, and was so lowed by a business session, at the parlors of ’jtlie Trewnav Chib. One of the features of the entertainment lor the ' visitors was a trip of inspection to the Young Men’s Christian Association, the VanWert County Hospital and the Young Woman’s Christian Association building.” RIGHT PLACE FOR TEDDY. Washington. D. c7 June 27—The United States may send troops to Russia within the next six months. In reaching a decision as to whether this shall be done the government Will be guided by the advice of the Elihu Root commission which is now in Russia. If it should be decided to send two or three divisions across the Pacific and then to Russia by way of Vladivostock, the step will be taken because this government as (well as Great Britain, France and ■ Italy believe the moral effect would be worth while.