Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 157, Decatur, Adams County, 6 July 1917 — Page 2

I) A I L Y 1) E M O C RA T Published Every Evening Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company JOHN H. HELLER President ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE. Secretary Subecription Rates Per Week, by carrier'. 10 cents Per Year, by carrier $5.00 Per Month, by mail 26 cents Per Year, by mail $3.00 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postuffice in Decatur. Indiana, as second-class matter. Lets don't carry grudges, lets don't' be mad at every body all the time, lets don't hunt for a reason why we can't do a thing, but lets everyone help each other do the very best thing tor the community and for everybody. We will all be so much happier and get so much more out of life. While urging his men to hold the lines against the approaching allies. Von Hindenburg, predicts that the war will be won by the U-boats. Yet the record of the submarines for tae past week was the poorest they have made since they started the big call- - which was expected to sink every ship on the seas. According to this the headway is backward. Decatur could.have no better Teputation than that of having the best high school in the state, or as good as tiny and thats just what we will have if the plans as prepared are carried out by the building of the new school. It is worth some > tiort and some sacrifice and every one should assist in working out the problem of financing the proposition. If enough support is given it will be easy. Conscripted men will be drawn by serial number, that is the men who registered in Adams county are now being listed and each card numbered, so that your precinct number does not count. In this county the work fids not been completed and but few districts have yet reported so that a draw ing at this time is simply impossib'e. Within a few days the time of drawing and other details will be announced. Until then any rejiort cannot be relied upon. A lonesome operator in the office of some stock broker, is said to have sent out the fake thirteen numbers yesterday, supposed to have been the first draft by the government, it caused some excitement over the country, a lot of inconvenience to news agencies and newspapers who have been kept busy explaining that it was a fake, but no doubt caused the ojierator to forget his troubles. It would be next to impossible for such news to break with(cut the newspaper associations having advance information as to time aud method. In these days when big events transpire you may save much worry and imaginary woe by depending on the newspaper for your reliable information. They are best prepared to furnish this—and they are making a special effort to print the news as it happens. Have you registered? It is important that you thus protect your rights

WE are selling a pile of those Summer Cool Skeleton lined suits at $8.50 to $13.50 Better Look Them Over. THE MYERS-DAILEY COMPANY

I whether you favor the constitutional convent ion or not. Every person who can should use the right nl sgf rage. Thats what makes good government rather than silting around complaining Register at the court home and do it now. If you can't come in you may send for the papers and fill litem out at home, but if you do that you must attest before a noli tary public. The registration board will continue in session several weeks 'yet but you should not wait for the . final rush or you may be unable to squeeze through the jam. So tar there I lias been but little interest manifested. Register at once and then you can make up your mind about the vot 'ing later, if you don't register yo t can't vote. The women should register as well as the Governor James Cox, * Ckio, is a real war governor aud when he talks he is usually understood. When lie was talking about the coal operators charging exorbitant prices he said: “It may be necessary to lock s< me people up hi order to prevent them front robbing the patriotic citizens who have sent their sons to tight for the government. And if these <oal operators persist in their robbery they will be backed up.” And the Ohio governor is known as a fighter. He was selected governor once Itefore and then defeated for a second term by the liquor and other interests. Then the Ohio governor started in to destroy the interests that had defeated hint, and after being out one term wis again elected chief executive When he gets through with the coal Operators they will know they have been in a light anti the people of Ohio will be saved millions of dollars.— New Castle Times. I DOINGS IN SOCIETY I WEEK S SOCIAL CALSNDAS Friday Ber Hurs Initiation. Birthday Club Dinner—Mr. aud Mrs. John Stewart. Pocahontas Needle Club. Saturday Christian Ladies’ Pastry Sale—Gas Office. Ice Cream Social— Washington church.

After a woman has tintshed reading all the summer resort catalogues. and her husband has greedily devoured all the automobile advertisements, they are ready to count over their assets, and compromise on a new porchhammock and a garden in the back yard.—Telen Rowlands. Fortune never seems so blind as to those upon whom she confers no favors. —La Rochefoucauld. Miss Ruth Myers, of Abingdon. 111., who is here for a visit with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Myers, and for their fiftieth wedding anniversary celebration over the week-end came here from Lake Geneva. W.'s. where she attended the convention of the ). W. c. A. as a delegate from the branch at Abingdon. Mrs. Don Quinn returned to Chicago after a visit here with relatives. Her daughter. Louise, remained for the summer witli her grandparents. Judge and Mrs. J. T. Merryman. Merrill Schnitz v,as a very entertaining host to the members of the Live Wire class of the Evangelical Sunday school taught by Mrs. Eugene

Runyon. Tuesday evening. Plans were made for raising the twenty-tie dollar pledge for the building fund and other business considered. Current events were discussed and made a very animating conversation before the Fourth of July celebration of tic works took place. Ice cream, cake and orangeade were cooling refresh ments. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Weaver and daughters. Nona and Zella. of Orrville. O„ are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ashbaucher. of Indiana street. Miss Eula McKinney, of Russiavill ■. and Miss Flora Fledderjohann, <»f Columbus. ().. who are spending their tcations here with friends, went to Ft. Wayne for the day with Mrs. Huldah | Loser Weimer. Meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Ashbaucher on Indiana street thi. city, automobiles conveyed a party of twenty to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tillman Gerber, west of the city, last evening, they bsing members of i | the Phoebe Bible class of the Reform- 1

ed church. The business period was followed by the social. with games aad either amusements. Dainty and deli clous refreshments served, comprised ice cream withe strawberries, cake and coffee. At the meeting of the Concord Lutheran Ladies' Aid society with Mrs. Sherman Kunkel yesterday phots were discussed for taking up Red Cross work. The reading of the story, "Pollyanna" was continued by. Mrs. E. S. Christen and a tine lunch wr.s provided by the hostess. Guests besides the regular members were Rev. and Mrs. Shank. Hoagland; Mis, Sampson Pillars. Mrs. S. S. Mtigley and Mrs. Dale Moses.

Mr. and Mrs. Hurt Hunsicker and children, Donald and Leona, Mr. and Mrs. Owen Davis. Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Miller, Mr. aud Mrs. Alph Gentis aud son, John Henry, motored to Celina, 0., Wednesday where they fished in the reservior and had a fine picnic dinner and supper. A lawn party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Hoover on North Second street was a delightful event of Fourth of July evening A short ifrogram preceded the display of fireworks and refreshments of ice cream and take were cooling. The program consisted or a reading by Mrs. Will Foughty; duet by Ijorene and Dorothy Bowser; solo by W. H. Foughty . reading. Helen Bowser; short talk. Chauncey Bowser. Those present were the J. J. Foughty. W. H. Foughty. Chauncey Bowser. Del Lake. Ernest Moon families; Garth Hoover and Gwendolyn Hoover. Honoring her guests. Paul and Catherine Hammond and Jeanette McCulley. of Huntington. Miss Margaret Mylott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Mylott. gave a lovely party last evening The porch, decorated with flowers. provided a pretty and cool setting for ihe party and numerous games and other amusements, with delicious refreshments constituted the entertainment. Miss Germaine Coffee jas hostess to the Ic-Nick club last evening, when contests, games and other amuse ments busied the evening. In a berry contest. Miss Agnes Costello won the prize, and in a poem contest. Miss Marie Gass won Refreshments of ice cream, cake, coffee were provided. the table being decorated with flowers. Miss Agues Costello has invited the club to her home in two weeks. Mrs. P. J. Baumgartner of Herne and Calvin Saurer of Richmond were guests of their sister. Mrs. F. K. Schaefer, today. Mr. and Mrs. William Gay of Mongo are guests of the James L. Gay family. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bart hoi, Bert and Rose Voglewede. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Kuebler and Dr. A. I). Clark will motor to Van Wert. 0.. to spend this evening at the home of friends.

The Woman's Christian Temperance Union will have its annual -picnic next Tuesday at Waterworks parK. There will lie a picnic supper at six o’clock. Following this an ice cream social will be given. All friends are invited to come and bring their supper for the picnic if they so desire, and the public is invited to the social. The ladies are also planning to go and register in bodies also, thus doing away with timidity of some who might not care to go alone. A delegation will leave the park at three o’clock for registration headquarters: and another at four o'clock. AU those who wish to go to register should be there at those times. —o — AVIATOR HELD FOR MURDER (United Press Service) Hartford City. Ind.. July 6 —(Special' to Daily Democrat i—An affidavit was tiled today in the court of Elmer Angers, justice of peace at Redkey. - charging Karl Hale, returned British ; aviator with the murder of young ■ Brown at that place several years ago. Hale has not yet been arrested. Several others are charged witfi cotnpltci ity in the murder. > o— HOLD DISTRICT MEETINGS (United Pre»> Service) Indianapolis. July 6 (Special to Daily Democrat) — Sentiment amoug members of the democratic state central committee meeting here today was against the proposal to take an active part in chuosing delegates to the constitutional convention. Instead a plan was favorerj . whereby county and districts might organize and choose candidates and then the state committee would announce from among these candidates, those they favor. o — PAPER HITS THE ROCKS (United PrtM Servtca) Columbus. Onio, July 6 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The Columbus Daily Monitor, republican newspaper, established here July It). 191*1. was suspended this afternoon, owing to great financial losses.

THE COURT NEWS Exemption Board Renumbering the Registration Cards —Will Send THEM TO WASHINGTON Must be Ready by Tomorrow Night—Case Sent Here on Change. The exemption board. Clerk Hammell. Dr. E. G. Coverdale and Sheriff Green and his deputy. L. D. Jacobs, are renumbering tne soldiers' registration cards in duplicate and making up a complete list of the 1.622 registered here in the recent conscription that they may have the same ready to send to the provost marshal at Washington. D. C by tomorrow night. These numbers are entirely different from the ones given on the certificates to those registering, and are entirely different from those of the first set of cords which were arranged from the names alphabetically and numbered serially therefrom. Under the new order, the cards are mixed and given wholly new serial numbers, which in this county range from 1 to 1.622. The drawing will take place at Washington. D. C„ and not by the local board as some think. The numbers drawn at Washington will, indicate the numbered names on the cards as the ones who will be called to service unless exemption is granted. Four sets of lists of names, addresses and numbers are being made. One will be sent to Washington, one posted, one sent to the newspapers, and the fourth kSpt by the exemption board. Licensed to marry: August Wc:gtuan, born November 1, 1894. son >4 Charles to wed Martha Doehrman, born December 11. 1899, daughter of Ernest Doehrman. ( The case of Sarah Stout vs. William D. Ruhle, et al. has been received here on change of venue from the Allen circuit court. The suit is on note, demand $250. Real estate transfers: Sarah M. Spence to John A. Haggard, 30 acres of Root township, quit claim deed. *1; William L. Ray. et al. to John A. Haggard, 30 acres of Root township, suit claim deed. sl. Attorney Shafer Peterson will go to Muncie today where he will take part in the argument tomorrow of the motion made by the Lake Erie & Western railroad company for a new trial of the case in which they are defendant, Louis Griswold being plaintiff. Mr. Peterson was instrumental in securing a judgment of $2,000 for Mr. Griswold for injuries sustained in the auto wreck in which Mrs. Sanders of Monroe was killed, and Griswold injured. The railroad asked for a new trial. Judge Thompson is presiding.

The county commissioners will take steps for the repairing of the damage done to the lamp post on the courthouse spuare when a moving van from Fort Wayne ran into it. Hunting and fishing licenses were issued in the past several days to Homer H. Knodle, W. M. Parent. Burl Rian, M. E. Beery, W. F. Beery and J. W. Mothers. o “Meticulous.” The Use of the word “meticulous” in the sense of “particular,’’ maylir understood by the following definitions/ which vye quote in answer to a request for tlie citation of authorities: Century Dictionary, “timid; over-care-ful;’’ New Standard, “over-cautious;” Oxford Concise, “over-scrupulous about minute details.” The word is from the Latin “luetlculosus,” “full of fear,” the derivation being from ‘metus," "fear.” Read Good Books. Young women dependent upon their own efforts should give n thought to tomorrow as well as today. The girl -alone hasn’t anyone to look after her interests, so she must guard them herself. She should keep track of how she spends her salary, and should also join a good benevolent society, so that in the event of an illness or an accident she will be assured of proper medical treatment, and at the same time receive the benefit all such organizations provide. Unassailable Conclusion. “I am coming to the conclusion,” observed the restaurant philosopher at luncheon today, "that the fewer sons-in-law and brothers-in-law a man in high political life has, the better off he is.” —Marion Star. Sky Splitter. Marcy, the highest mountain In the Empire state, was named In honor of Gov. William L. Marcy. Its Indian name is "lahawas” (be splits the sky).

ARE IN A "JAM' Senate Caught in a Snarl in Which Dozen Members Talk at Same Time. MANY MAKE MOTIONS "Booze” Bill Causes a Real Scrap—Not Much Chance for Vote Today. (United Pre»J Service) Washington, D. C.. July 6—(Spe cial to Daily Democrat)—With a score of amendments and substitute amendments offered on the prohibition section of t'he food bill and a dozen senators talking at the same time, the senate got into a parliamentary jam late this afternoon. At that time there were a half-dozen motions pending. Vice President Marshall admitted he had reached a state where he could not agree with his own rulings. There appeared little chance for a vote today. (By Robert J. Bender. United Pri ss Staff Correspondent) Washington. D. C.» July 6—< Special to Daily Democrat) —The famous trial of booze, beer and wine in the United States senate is nearing ar end. After three weeks of wordy battle, the case is expected to go to the jury late today. A verdict may come be fore sun-down. There is no question as to the fate of spirits. They will be given the death penalty. Beer and wine are expected to survive. The - senate chamber was crowded early to hear the final speeches beginning at 2 p. m. Under a decision handed down late yesterday, debate today is limited to ten minutes by eaqh senator on the section under which all of the famous beverages are now subject to conviction. On the different questions as they will be voted on the following predictions were made today: To prohibit the manufacture of spirits and leave the fate of beer and wine to the president, wets and republican drys will constitute a small majority against such a verdict. To prohibit all three—spirits, beer and wines—about thirty radical votes will be cast favoring such a verdict with a majority against it. To prohibit spirits and not interfere with beers and wines, an overwhelm ing verdict is expected With these questions disposed of. the senate expects to dispose of the whole food measure by next Wednesday or Thursday.

NOBLE LIFE ENDS (Continued from Page One) Nina Nickey, at Buffalo. N. y7 since her husband’s death, she maintained her home in this city as her residence She leaves in her own immediate family, five children and seven grandchildren. Two children, Marcus and Emma, are deceased. Those living are: Will, of Rockford. 0.; Charles, who is mayor of this city: Elizabeth Vaughn, of Evanston. III.; Maude, wife of Guy Johnson, of Columbus, O.: Eugene, of Bakersfield, Cal Mrs. Christen was one of eleven children, of whom seven were girls and four. boys. Brothers and sisters surviving are: Martin, of Monmouth: William, of South Dakota: Tillie Mark er. Guthrie. Oklahoma: Mina Nickey, Buffalo. N. Y.; Cora Worden, of east of this city. Two died in infancy, and those who succumbed in later life were Martha Dutcher, Harriet Hart. Frank Lord. Delia Yocum. Only the best can be said of the life of the deceased, who was a noble woman in every respect; a loyal wife and patient, kind mother, a true friend, and one especially devoted to home interests. 'She was a consistent member of the United Brethren church, being a member of the Indies’ Aid society of that church and active in other departments. The funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at two o’clock from the home. In the absence of the pastor, the Rev. Harmon, who is out of the city, the Rev. F. F. Thornburg, of the Methodist chruch will officiate. Burial will take place in the Decatur cemetery. Honorary pall bearers have been selected as follows: Mesdumes Osctr Fritzinger. Mel Rice, Abner Parrish. Fred Seliemeyer. John Edwards and Dayton V. Steele. Active pall hearers: Messrs. E. \. Mann. Fred Seliemeyer. Dayton V. Steele, Ben Shrank. O. P. Mills ami Fred Heuer. Proof of the Pudding. Mrs. A—“ But. honestly, what was your real reason for refusing her dinner invitation? Mrs. B —“ Experience. 1 used to ‘ru-e her cook,'’

'' z .• o v ' f ■ <*** ”1 v ... t pigeonTharms serpent Remember Ihe story of the serpent charming the piceon' Well Annette l»elano. riding song bird of the Gentry Brothers’ . j rills has a pigeon that .harms the 29 foot. 4 inch. East Indian python in Palmer's annex to the big show Any day the pigeon may be seen h opw#| about the pit where the huge reptile is exhibited As the bird moves <«. tentedlv about, the great kite shaped head of the snake describes slow on the canvass floor Its eyes are fixed on the pigeon. Suddenly, the biri will halt and turn its gaze upon the python. Beady little eyes bore into beady little eyes. But it is the giant constrictor that weakens. Its ey* drow dim. It falls into a sort of trance and seems to doze.. Can it be tint there is a closer relationship betweeh the bird and the snake than tu scientific chaps concede? Annette Delano and her troupe of young lady ridere. her remarfebi e carrier pigeons and the scores of renowned Gentry animal actors, huam circus stars aud unusual novelty features will be seen when the Gentryi come to Decatur on Thursday. July 12, to exhibit afternoon and mght. ui to parade the principal streets that morning with a mile of pageantry-u open air review of great beauty aud colorful attractiveness, including open and closed cages, camel tandem teams, mounted bauds, 200 ponies, beautful horses, elephants, dromedaries, down*, tableau wagons and Mothw Goose floats filled with the most beautiful and most intelligent pertonniu; dozs in the world.

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