Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 168, Decatur, Adams County, 21 July 1917 — Page 1

Volume XV. Number 168.

FIRST THREE THOUSAND WILL FORM THE ARMY ACCORDING TO ESTIMATES—ADAMS COUNTY HAS 500 IN LIST -HERE ARE ADDITIONAL NAMES AND NUMBERS.

CUnlted Press Service) Indianapolis, Ind., July 21—(Special to Daily Democrat) Agent Jesse Eschbach this afternoon announced the gross quotas for the draft army in Indiana districts. The figures do not give credit for the enlistments from the various districts. Among the figures given out are: Adams county, 212; Wells county. 192; Blackford county, 154. Washington, D. C., July 21 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The men men who will comprise America's first national army are represented in the first three thousand numbers drawn in yesterday’s lottery. Past the 3,000 mark only scattered district will be affected, officials said today. Numbers following the 3,000th, therefore, represented only the reserve from which subsequent calls will be made. The men who will respond to the first call were therefore J covered in the figures published yest terday. Official lists will be furnished withr in the next five or six days, when | any man can find his exact place on , the calls. The Adams County List Numbers, numbers every where, I* numbers until you get tired of looking I at them, a whole sea of numbers, rangf ing from one to over ten thousand and F your number, if you be of the age, hi.lJ den away like a needle in a hay sta. k. The big job of furnishing those numbers has staggered even the greatest newspapers of this land, where they are used to handling great and complicated stories but it has be°n done splendidly. How many men will Adams county be required to furnish? Those who have given the plan much study are of the opinion that the number actually required will be between fifty and one hundred which means that perhaps 500 will have to be examined. We are therefor continuing our list as published yesterday up to 500 Adams county men who will be the first examined and from which it is most prob able the quota from this county will be taken. If in the future it develops that more will be required, the Daily Democrat will print further lists. Indiana’s net quota is 17.510. The Adams county share of that would 1 c about 75 it is believed. However, these points will all be straightened out by the federal authorities in due time and in the meantime it may ma.te it clearer to call your attention to these facts as set out by Jesse Eschbach, state conscription agent: 1. The fact that a man’s number was drawn in the lottery at Washington yesterday does not require him to make any report at this time to the local conscription board. 2 The men whose numbers were drawn vesterday will be notified ly the board in their districts when to report for examination by it. 3 The men who are accepted y the conscription boards and who are not declared exempt from service will receive notice from the proper authorKities in due time where the Ind.ana troops wl n mobilize prior to beffig sent to their camp near Louisville >. where the Indiana and Kentucky OiX Os the National Army will train. In addition to those published yesterday the following names will increase the list to over 500 in thl. “McHenry Rhinehart. Berne 642 Philip Strahm. Decatur R. R- • 939 Albert Bracken Berne 222 Russell Christy. Pleasant Mills 1«37 Wm. Neussbaum. Berne. 700 Adam Schafer. Decatur 1250 Wm. Grandienard. Bluffton 1195 Harry Hoffman. Decatur 297 Harvev Butler, Decatur. R 21 Wm. H. Bultemeier. Decatur 736 Earl Martin, Decatur 707 Roscoe Glendenning, Geneva

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1002 Lawrence Durbin, Monroe 1151 Carl Schug, Geneva 1101 Adolph Marbaugh. Decatur. R. R. 8 368 Ira Martz, Geneva 974 Robert Shirk. Monroe 320 Elmer Ray Triple, Geneva 950 Marcus Mayer, Decatur 926 Herman Ehinger, Decatur. 1010 Fred Engle, Decatur 656 Fred Ridenus, Decatur, R. R. 9 919 Albert Ehlerding, Magley 1070 Frank Aumiller, Berne 814 Peter Stucky, Berne 1175 George Earhart. Monroeville 1167 Rudolph Worthman. Magley 1097 Harry Smith, Decatur. R. R. 10 1191 Claude Gay, Decatur. R. R. 6 1234 Virgil Krik. Decatur 848 J. D. Sarig, Decatur. 1118 John Gerber, Monroe. R. R. 1 121 Ira Springer. Berne 221 Elam Steiner. Berne 1537 Austin Earl McMichael. R. R. 6, Decatur 1474 James W. Hart, Decatur. R.R. 9 1414 Fred W. Kukelhan, Decatur. R. R. 3 822 Christian Musselman. Berne 292 Amos Bersch, Monroe. R. R. 1 470 John W. Myers, Decatur. R.R. 6 504 Albert Steins, Monroe, R. R. 1 1064 Fred Walchle, Berne. R. R. 4 1092 Albert Hanni. Berne 1205 Franklin Franz. Decatur 312 Joseph Louis Byer, Berne, R,

R. 3 1507 Albert Hackman, Decatur. R. R. 1 1284 Harvey Nussbaum. Berne, R. R. 3 90 Sam Bollenbacher, Willshire 191 Will Schoenbach, Berne 477 Henry Anthony Meyer, Decatur, R. R. 5 1179 Arby Louis Lindsey. Geneva 753 Fred Smith. Decatur, R. R. 6 130 Adolph Heichart. Berne 358 Karl Battenberg. Decatur 168 Noah M. Soldner. Berne 1023 Free Frisinger. Decatur 537 Charlie Thieme. Decatur 424 A. C. Stoppenhagen, Decatur. R. R. 4 840 Hiram Leichty, Berne 1347 Andrew J. Neuenfechwander, Berne 1511 Rudolph Weiland. Decatur, R. R. 8 657 Chauncey Petry, Monroe 175 Ross F. Duff. Berne. R. R. 5 300 Albert Bieberich, Magley, R. R. 1 278 Albert Buckmaster. Decatur R. R. 2 1021 Otto Hofstetter, Geneva 1622 Leo Loshe. Decatur, R. R. 6 1240 John Hisey, Bente, R. R. 5 524 Joel Schaefer. Monroe, R. R. 1 911 Floyd Stoneburner, Magley 1172 Edward Dawson, Monroeville, R. R. 3 532 Erwin Merry. Decatur 1517 Edgar Gerber, Decatur 1139 Russel Acker, Decatur 1214 Edward Warren, Decatur 336 Charles Berning. Decatur 212 Emanuel Stauffer, Decatur 1357 Daniel Jack, Geneva, R. R. 3 r 49 Alva Smith, Berne 8 William Beer. Monroe 1160 Benjamin Elzey, Decatur 1192 Emil Graft. Decatur. R. R. 4 305 Albert Beer, Geneva 1143 Roy Enos, Decatur 557 Christian Steury, Berne 1433 Herbert Kirchner, Decatur 622 Erwin Pontius. Geneva. R. R. 4 585 Norman S. Stalter, Bluffton 1464 Glen Earl Haviland. Geneva 1257 William Glaus, Geneva 1'77 Fred Fuhrer, Geneva 781 John Tissel, Berne, R. R. 2 1415 Frank Knittie, Decatur, R. R. 9 1035 Samuel Mallery, Monroe 958 Melvin Diehl, Magley. R. R. 1 328 Joe Teeple, Geneva, R. R- 2 1343 John Kipfer, Bluffton. R. R. 4 1439 Ben C. Hoagland, Decatur 857 Marion Case, Pleasant Mills 1554 Fred Gehres, Pleasant Mills 1401 Eugene Kintz, Decatur. R. R. 5 1303 Herman Haag, Decatur 963 Eli Girod, Decatur 438 Martin Reinking, Decatur, R. R. 4 , (ConUnuedToFPage Two)

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday’ Evening, July 21, 1917.

AT EVANGELICAL ■" "■ —- The Union Sunday Evening Service Will be There— Rev. J. C. Hanna WILL GIVE SERMON Union Young People’s Service to be Lead by Grace Hoeneisen. The Sunday evening union church service will be held tomorrow al the Evangelical church. The union young people’s meeting at 6:30 o'clock will be under the direction of the Young People’s Alliance of j the Evangelical church, with Miss Grace Hoeneisen, leader. The program: Topic. “Applying The Golden Rule to Life.” Song--134 iCoronation Hymns). Song—lo. Prayer. Scripture—Matt. 7: 7-12. Five Minute Talk — Miss Alma| Kooken. Five Minute Talk —Mr. Lutz. Vocal Solo—Miss Cecil Andrews. Five Minute Talk—Mr. L. L. Baumgartner. Five Minute Talk —Dr. C. R. Weaver Five Minute Talk—Mr. Hoagland. Song—6B. Announcements. Mizpah Benediction. The union preaching service will he at 7:30 o'clock, the sermon to he delivered by the Rev. J. C. Hanna. The program: Song—27 (Coronation Hymns.) Song—24o. Scripture Lesson —Rev. T. H. Harmon. Prayer—Rev. W. Paul Marsh Qff oratory. Announcements. Anthem. “My Jesus I, Love Thee” Choir. Sermon —Rev. J. C. Hanna. Prayer. Song. “Redeemed” —Male Chorus. Doxology. i Benediction—Rev. T. H. Harmon. ,

BETTEB METHODS In Pork Production —Demonstrated on Farm of Otto Bieberich. THREE LOTS OF HOGS Fed With Different Rations Make Gains in Proportion Thereto. Some very interesting facts are being produced in the hog feeding demonstration on the farm of Otto Bieberick, in Kirkland township, where

three different lots of hogs are being fed different rations. One lot of hogs, on clover pasture, is receiving all the corn and tankage it will consume from the self-feeder, another pen is in a dry lot and is being fed corn and tankage while the third group is in a dry lot being fed corn alone. The hogs weighed up yesterday for the second time since they have been put on the test. They are being weighed at 4 week intervals and when weighed 4 weeks ago is was found that the poor est lot had gained an average of 8% pounds per head at a cost of 29.4 cents per pound. 1370 pounds of feed being required for 100 pounds of grain. When the same lot was weighed Thursday it was found that for the past 4 weeks this same lot has gained r.n average of 7 pounds per head at a cost of 24.7 cents per pound and it took 1085 pounds to put on 100 pounds cf gain. The next best lot, when weighed 4 weeks ago, showed that they had gained an everage of 23.6 pounds per head at a cost of 11.1 cents per pound and it took 529.7 pounds of feed to make 100 pounds of gain. When weighed Thurs day it was found that this lot for the past 4 weeks had gained 22.2 pounds per head at a cost of 11.9 cents per pound and it took 515.7 pounds cf feed for 100 pounds of gain. I The best lot, when weighed 4 weeks ago, had gained an average of 28.2

pounds per head at a cost of 6.3 cents per pound and it took 298.6 pounds of feed for 100 pounds of gain. When weighed Thursday this same lot had made an average gain of 33 pounds per head at a cost of 7.4 cents p<>r pound and it took 342.3 pounds of fe d for 100 pounds of gain. These lots, eight weeks ago, worn selected to be as nearly equal with teppect to weight, thriftiness, etc., and today when the three lots of hogs i are inspected it is found that the t ■ which averaged 34% pounds per head al the start now averages 50 pounds per head while the next lot which t - - eraged 33 pounds per head at the start now averages 78.8 pounds per head and the best lot. which at the sta r t. averaged 27.1 pounds per head today tips the scales at an average of 86.3 pounds per head or in other wrods the best lot has made more than 4 times (Continued on Page Two) THE COURT NEWS Season is Good for the Issuance of Fishing and Hunting Licenses. DISMISSES THE CASE

For Divorce But Jacob Railing Must Show Why He Didn’t Pay Allowance. When the case was nearly ready for trial, in the court at Fort Wayne, last Tuesday, Jacob Railing, dismissed his divorce case agaiutt Martha Railing. This, however, did not prevent nis being cited to apear there next Tuesday morning and show cause why he failed to comply with the order to pay his wife a temporary allowance. I). B. Erwin is Mrs. Railing’s attorney. Licensed to marry: Lewis C. Gerke contractor of Fort Wayne, born October 8, 1892, son of Lewis Gerke, to wed Ella Bleeke, born July 22, 1896, daughter of Edward ('. Bleeke. Real estate transfers: Riverside Cemetery Association to Anna Schafer, lot 90, sls; Emma L. Woodward, et al to Michael E. Spangler, 54’4 acres of Jefferson township, $5,000; Michael E. Spangler to J. H. and Emma L. Woodward, 54’4 Steres of Jefferson township, $5,000. Hunting and fishing licenses wore issued to Dallas M. Reed. Francis Costello. Dr. J. C. Grandstaff. Herman I. G .Miller, John Fox and Dr. H. F. Keller. EVERYTHING IS READY For Great County Picnic For Company A Sunday.

Boys of Company A are busy today at Waterworks park, Fifth street, where they are getting the seats and stand ready for the congregatei and speakers, and the tables for the dinner for the great county Sunday school picnic tomorrow’. This will be in fare well to Company A which leaves soon for Hattiesburg. Miss. Everybody is asked to bring a trifle extra in his dinner basket for the soldier boys. After the dinner at one o'clock, the speaking will begin. Ed Jackson, secretary of state, will be introduced by Hon, J. W. Tyndall; the city band will play; the double male quartet will sing. Everybody will make it a point to be there. —o— HAD OPERATIONS Mrs. Wilson Miller and children returned to Fort Wayne. They were here at the bedside of her niece, Frances, thirteen year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. I. Weikel. who was operated upon this morning at the Decatur hospital for the removal of adenoids and her tonsils. Owing to the nostrils being so nearly closel with the adenoids, the child was unable to take the ether fully. Martin, son of Fred Thieme of Union township, who was operated upon Wednesday for appendicitis, is getting along very nicely. GETTING ALONG WELL Councilman James Hurst returned yesterday afternoon from Rock Island, 111., where he has been at the bedside of his son, Will Hurst, who was operated upon for appendicitis. He is get ' ting along as well as is consistent an l if the recovery continues well, he will be able to be taken home from the : hospital in about a weak.

EARLY PASSAGE I r ■ ■ 1 Os Food Control Bill is Expected—May be Tonight or Early Tomorrow. VOTING WILL BEGIN About 2:30 This Afternoon —All Debates Will Stop at This Time. (United Press Service) Washington, July 21 (—Special to Daily Democrat) —A minimum price, $2.00 a bushel of high grade wheat was | fixed by the senate today when it an--1 proved without roll call an amendment to the food bill offered by Senator Chamberlain fixing this arbitrary price Washington, July 21 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —By adjournment tonight or possibly early tomorrow—the senate will have passed the food j control bill, establishing virtually a food dictatorship for the world. Voting on scores of amendments and finally on the bill itself was in begin not later than 2:30 this afternoon by unanimous consent agreement reached late week. At 2:30 all debate —which sinse Thursday have bee.i under a ten minute limitation—will stop and the senate, after weeks of dis cussion and quarreling will start nulling the amendments, separating the great preponderance of chaff from the almost negligible proportion of legislative grain. Three amendments are expected to occupy most of the senatorial inter-1 est if not time, in the final hours of consideration. They are first, the Pomerene amendment proposing government control of the coal industry; second, the committee amendment for a minimum price of $1.75 a bushel on wheat; and third, the Gore substitute for the entire bill.

Anticipating food control, Herbert Hoover has rented one of Washington’s largest hotel buildings together with several nearby smaller structures Expansion of the food administration’s rorce to 2,000 employes has already begun . PICNIC SUNDAY Big Patriotic Event With Hon. Ed Jackson. Secretary of State AS SPEAKER OF DAY Committee Will Go to Bluffton to Meet Distinguished Guest Tomorrow. The big patriotic picnic for the

members of Company A and to be participated in by the various Sunday schools of the county, will be held a’ the Waterworks park tomorrow. R. D. Myers, chairman of the county council of defense and C. E. Peterson chairman of the committee on ar rangements, announced today tint plans had been completed for the event. The program will include a band concert before and after the big dinner to be served at one o'clock—be sure to put in a piece of chicken for one of the soldier boys—music by the male quartet, invocation by R°v. Stolte, introduction by Senator J. W. Tyndall, who will preside, address by Hon. Ed Jackson, secretary of state. Senator Tyndall. Mayor C. N. Christen and J. S. Peterson have been appointed a committee to go to Bluffton tomorrow morning to meet Mr. Jacason and escort him to this city. He will arrive here about one o’clock. You are cordially invited to attend this event. o DAVID WERLING IN LEAD David Werling, formerly county com missiouer and well known farmer, Is today in the lead for tall oats. He read about the five foot and one inch stock and decided he could beat it, so he brought in a sample today which is five feet, six inches and another five feet and eight inches. He has a lot of this kind of oats too. Can you beat it?

DR. HENRICKS PRESIDES At Chiropractic Educational Week Exercises in Fort Wayne. Dr. B. C. Henrlcks. chiropractor, will be in Fort Wayne next week dur Ing "chiropractic educational week" which will be observed at Ross college Dr. Henrlcks is president of the state association and will preside ai all of the session. He is also on ’he program for the opening talk, following Dr. Ross’ address of welcome. Dr. i Hendricks will speak on “Chiroprac'ic | Ethics.” Dr. B. J. Palmer, of the Palmer school at Davenport. lowa, is among those of national fame Io speak Seven or eight from here will go with Dr. Hendricks to be examined in '.he clinics which will close each session, when anyone who has a baffling ailment. may he examined free. o ~ FINISH BIC JOB Task of Drawing Names Completed at 2:18 This Morning in Capital. ONE WAS MISSING But Was Later Found and Officials Report Their Work Completed.

(United Press Service) Washington, D. C., July 21—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The missing number was located today. It was found to be 4.644. and was assigned to the 10,004th place where a blank hod been drawn. Washington, D. C„ July 21—(Specialto Daily Democrat) —Provost Marshal General Crowder today announced he had located the one missing number in yesterday's drawing — and with this, America’s great lottery passed into history. Checking up on the sheets has been completed and the official lists in printed and photographed form will be on their way to all exemption boards before nightfall. Where and how the missing number was located was not disclosed. And Crowder said he could not recollect what the missing number was. With itHfalocation. however, every one went to bed and what names are hid den in the vagrant pellet will not lie determined until the officials awaken. (By Webb Miller, United Press Staff Correspondent) Washington, D. C., July 21 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —America’s mighty draft closed early today with one number missing. Today a force of clerks went through the dizzy list of figures on the hunt for this numeral. It was the single hitch of a “perfect day” which started at 9:50 a. m. and ended with the pulling of the last black capsule at 2:18 this morning.

Tired men, with blistered fingers and heads whirling with figures were ordered off duty for three hours while a fresh crew of accountants went on the trail of the missing number. The missing pellet was a blank. The 10.004th number Was where it came put. The hunt for it is almost like seeking out the proverbial needle In a haystack. When the blank space is filled, then another group of checkers will revise the three sets of figures. In case of a dispute, the figure which two of them contain will govern. As the numbers are verified today they will be listed o nan official sheet and duplicates of this sheet will be sent broadcast to every local board. If the missing link is located during the day and the checking is complei ed, the farthest local board should have its official list by next Thursday or Friday, at the latest. Then the work of selecting the fit and the unexempted will proceed. Local boards will send out word to those who must answer the first call, though the individual himself is responsible for really knowing whether he is in the first call. As the men are notified, they must present themselves for physical examination. They will be noted as accepted or rejected. Then, if they hate a claim for exemption, they must present it to their exemption boards, which will pass on it quickly. The first call of men consists of two hundred per cent of the actual quota of the particular city or town. Thus, iL a town must furnish 2,000 (Continued on Page Two)

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OFFERS TO RESIGN —4 General Goethals Thinks This Step Will Stop Shipping Board Row. MANY SHIPS SUNK — German Official Figures for Submarine Warfare Losses Are High. (United Press Service) BULLETIN. Washington, July 21—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Goethals has offered to resign as general manager of the emergency fleet corporation. As a climax to the long drawn argument between himself and Chairman Denman of the shipping board, Gcethals wrote a letter to President Wilson suggesting if it will help the matter he will resign. That the president will take action soon was indicated today. Those close to the president intimated that he was “out of patience with the Goethals-Denman row.” What the president will do however will not be known until he returns from a week-end cruise. Goethals only comment today was that he had not yet resigned but he could not tell “what would develop.” Goethals letter to the senate yesterday detailed his relations with Denman and declared the constant dickering was no longer endurable. Up to the present, the president had held aloff from the Goethals-Denman row. London. July 21—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Since the first of February, Germany claims to have sunk close to 4.750.000 tons of shipping, neutral and allies, according to Germany’s official figures received by newspapers here today'. Figures given were: February. ■781.500 tons; March, 885.000 tons; April, 1,091,000 tons; May, 869.000 tons; June, “over a million, with a number of commanders’ reports as yet not received.” June, the German newspapers declare, “gives indication of being a record breaker.” Petrograd, July 21 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —An intense artillery battle is in progress in the SmorgenKrevo sector, according to battle front dispatches received here. The crack Siberian corps is bearing the brunt of the fighting and Russian guns are obtaining mastery of the enemy.

This is the first indication of extension of the offensive to the front near Vilna. London, July 21 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —“Those in charge of German affairs have elected for war" declared Premier Lloyd George in a speech this afternoon in the Queens hall, answering German Chancellor Michaelis address to parliament. “The chancellor’s statement", he added, “contained phrases which the German military autocracy understood “The junkers have thrown the old chancellor into the waste basket wit it his ‘scrap of paper’ Lloyd George continued, “and it will not be long before junkerdom follows him there." London. July 21—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Premier Lloyd George of England was looked to this afternoon to make answer to the speech to German Chancellor Michaelis in on address at Queens hall. The meeting was in celebration of Belgium’s independence. Lloyd George was to preside. BULLETIN. London, July 21—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Minister of War and Marines Kerensky has temporarily been named premier of Russia, succeeding Prince Lvoff. resigned, according to announcement in the Bourse Gazette at Petrograd today. Kerensky, is was stated in the Petrograd advices, is to retain his place as military and naval chief. Tseretelli. formerly minister of communications, was named minister of the interior, in addition to his previous cabinet post. Minister of railways Nekrasoff is temporarily filling the post of ministry of justice. Paris, July 21—(Special to Daily Democrat—All through last night the Germans continued their offensive aganist French troops on the Chemin Des Dames, hurling great masses of men in fruitless attacks, the French official statement declared today. The assaults were repelled, the war (Continued on - Page Two)