Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 169, Decatur, Adams County, 23 July 1917 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRAT, —— *■ J ■ Published Every Evening Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company JOHN H. HELLER President ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Secretary Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier 10 centsj Per Year, by carrier $5.00 Per Month, by mail 25 cents Per Year, by mail ,3.00 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rales made known on application. Entered at the postoffice in Decatur,l, Indiana, as second-class matter. Crop reports show the greatest pro-, 1 duction this land has ever given, in j grains and likewise in vegetables aad,' perishable products. Now comes the ' great test. Will you can and put 1 away this great amount of food or will 1 you permit it to go to waste? Un- ' less you help save this great crop the 1 work of planting and producing it will 1 have been wasted. Do your tit again 1 by canning, drying, saving the garden crop. Ed Jackson expressed a good 1 thought in his speech Sunday when he said that while many people fe>t this a dreadful age in which to live, he believed it the greatest in all history. Future accounts of the events of today will write a wonderful st try I and as Mr. Jackson said we should each and every one be interested most in knowing what our individual part in tills great drama is and then | lay it in an unselfish, patriotic, brave and big way. Committees from the Knights f|' Columbus lodge called on the mem- ' hers of the Catholic church yesterday. I soliciting funds for army camp clubs to follow the soldier camps wherever they may be located. We are glad to state tiiat they made good and that the final report which will be made in a few days will show a total of in >re than $8t)0 or nearly twice the amount asked. Adams county makes good again as she always does and we are proud of her. ? — If you have not attended any of the: union church services which are being held in this city each Sunday night, you are overlooking as wonderful religious meetings as have been held in this part of the state. The excellent sermon, the splendid singing, the sincere and manifest spirit of earnestness will appeal to you. The meetings are a great help, the people of every church, interested in a common cause, meet under the brotherhood of man to worship God. and those who are helping in the work, are indeed doing a work that will bring results worth while to this community. Make it a part of your program to attend next Sunday. Hon. Ed Jackson, secretary of state, delivered the principle at the picnic at Waterworks park, Sunday afternoon. It was a splendid, patriotic address, tilled with great thoughts, well expressed. One cannot help admiring this splendid citizen, a man big enough to resign his high office ■with its salary of $6,500 to offer his services and his life to the cause for which his country is fighting. As judge‘of the Henry circuit court. Mr. Jackson, made a good record, as sec-

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retary of state he has proven efficient and when a tew weeks ago he resigned his office ai)d filed application for admission to the officers training school, he became a greater man than ever before. His address here Sunday rung true and was devoid of politics and every thing else excepting American patriotism. The distinguish ed gentleman made many friends and helped to make the event a successful one. The printing ot the names of the men to be conscripted is an almost endless job and apparently a useless one. Those conscripted know it and what they are interested in now is to know what their turn will be for cad. To give this it is necessary to reprint the names toget :• ■ ith the number of their turn and the number assigned them originally. Tod;. ; rest; notices say that within a day or two the information will be sent out otlh ia'.ly from Washington and al that time notices will be sent trom the local board to each man who must ap, ear. The numlfer of men from this county to be called is 106 and the instructions to the board are to call twice that number or 212. We have printed the names of the first five hundred and as this will be enough for two calls towards filling up the first draft, we feel it sufficient for this time. If we find the number not enough we will publish a further list of names. The orders have ai«o provided for the publication of the men as they are accepted or rejected. Every matt to be called will have sufficient noti.-e at each step. Therefore the only thing to do at this time is to wait for your orders.

♦» K»< i I DOINGS IN SOCIETY H H « -u:::::uss&o:::::: WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. *■ Tuesday Ruth Circle — Florence Licht, nsteiger. Delta Theta Tau—Vera Hower. Three Link Club —1. O. O. F. Ha<l. Wednesday St. Vim-ent de Paul —At K. of C. hail. Thursday Ever Ready Class—Mrs. Frank Au rand. Baptist Aid and Missionary—Mrs. 1 Harve Shroll. Ben Hur Children's Party. Mt. Pleasant Mite Society —Mis. Ben Butler. Friday. Ben Hurs Initiatory. Pastoral Helpers—Mrs. Will Engle. The Ever Ready class of the M. E Sunday school will be entertained Thursday evening at 7:36 o’clock by Mrs. Frank Auraiid at her home. 104 South Eleventh street. Every member is urged to be present. Miss Agnes Firkes entertained ;.t dinner Saturday noon for Miss Ruth Baumgartner, of Chattanooga. O. Other guests were Helen Dugan. Ruth Frisihger and Josephine Myers. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bell and son. William; Mr. and Mrs. Cal Peterson spent a delightful day Sunday whli Mr. and Mrs. zNrnold Schuller on their farm near Wabash. The Baptist Aid and Missionary societies wil I'nave a joint meeting Thurs day afternoon with Mrs. Harve Shroll. The Christian Pastoral Helpers' general society will be entertained by Mrs Will Engle i'riday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. The annual children’s party of the Ben Hurs will be given Friday evening with a picnic supper at the,hall.

followed by games and a program. I Mils Agnes Gililg will tell .stories to the children and there will be other entertainment features. The Mt. Pleasant Mite society will meet, with Mrs. Ben Butler Thursday, afternoon. The Ben Hurs' will have their initiatory service Friday evening. Because several of the members are in th First Aid classes which meet n Monday evenings, the Ruth Circle of the Christian church will be entertained Tuesday evening instead. Miss Florence Lichtensteiger will entertain at her home in the south part of the city . Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Acker were entertained at the home of Mr. mid Mrs. Sam Acker Sunday. Miller and family, and Mr and Mrs. Scherer, of Huntington, motored here Sunday and were guests, with, the Alva Nichols family, of Mrs. Verena Miller and daughter. Miss Vera Hower will entertain the Delta Theta Tau sorority Tuesday evening. Mrs. J. M. Miller, Mrs. E. S. Christen. Mrs. Mel Butler and Miss Er ie Butler will entertain the Three Link club Tuesday after the regular Rebekah lodge meeting. Every member should attend. Mr. and Mrs. Frank McDonald. Mr. and Mrs. Henry' Dauer. Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Sholty. Walter Click, of this city; and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Dailey, ofBluffton, were entertained at a spring chicken dinner and at lunch by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fetters, at th >ir home. Villa North. Bluffton. The Fetters will return here this fall to spend the winter in the Sholiy furnished apartments. Mrs. Ben Middleton and mother, Mrs. Mary Overhulser. entertained a dinner Sunday for Mr. and Mrs. John Ruby and two children: Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Black. Mrs. Cal Steneley, all of Lima. Ohio. All had a good time.— Contributed.

Miss Tekla Reinking returned to Ft. Wayne today, after being the guest of Miss Hedwig Bleeke at dinner. Sue attended the Bleeke-Gerke wedding Sunday. Miss Esther Bauer of Chicago Heights, who was a guests at the welding and is now a guest of Miss Hedwig Bleeke. will remain until tomorrow when she will go to Loganspcit for a visit. Wm. Hitchcock and wife entertained the following parties for dinner Sunday: C. A. Hoghe and wife, of Van Wert, O.; Guy Hoghe, wife and sons Kenneth and Vernon, of near City. O.: L. V. Grossman. wife and children. Iva and Lester, of Watt. O. After dinner all repaired to the Waterworks park, where they enjoyed the fine program. —Contributed. Jtfr. and Mrs. Joe Hunter had as their guests last evening. Mr. and Mrs, Maurice Boyce. Homer and Alice Boyce. Esther Heckman. Mack MeClennahan, of Fort Wayne; and Miss Mildred LaDelle. o Mrs. M. F. Harris and Mrs. Clem Voglewede will entertain the St. Vincent de Paul society Wednesday afternoon at the K. of C. hall. There will be a business meeting from 2 to 3 o’clock, after which there will be a social good time. Progressive peanuts will be played and the proceeds will go to the society. Every member is urged to come. Miss Blanche Biggs entertained at dinner Sunday for Miss Margaret Burnett, of Ossian; Leslie Baumgartner, of Fort Wayne; Frank Bacon and Hazel Schnitz. In the evening they gave a picnic supper at Waterworks park, the party being joined by Ed Brons, of Fort Wayne. Dr. C. R. Reeve, of Cleveland. 0. was entertained Saturday and Sundry at the Ed S. Moses home, being a guest of Miss Gertrude Moses.

Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Frank, Anola and Myron Frank, Mr. and Mrs. Leland Frank motored to Baldwin. Ohio, where they spent the day with Mr J Frank's parents. Mr. and Mrs. L. 11. Frank and also with his grandmother,' Mrs. Simmers, who is ninety-two years of age. Mr. and Mrs. John Christen, of N. second street, entertained a company of relatives Sunday at a tine spring chicken dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Chalfant and family, of Bluffton, were guests of the William Page family Sunday. Miss Mary Moses and her guest, Miss Mabel Bcrvin, of Detroit. Midi., spent the day at the C. H. Gage home north of the city. The annaul joint celebration of the third birthday anniverseries of Louis Haubold and Hichard ©chug which takes place at the home of each m turn, was observed yesterday at the

Dr. I’. B .Thomas home when the John Sehug family and Mrs. Mary Woodward were entertained for the day. The usual enjoyable time was spent. Mrs. William Haubold and son. Arthur, of Chicago, who motored here last week and were guests at the Dr. P. B. Thomas home, left for their cottage at Dowagiac. Midh., taking with them Tummy and Helen Haubold who will spend two weeks there. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Swartz and daughter, Ixtla. were guests of the Ross Haya family al dinner Sunday. Miss Mary Moses has received announcement of the wedding. July 7. of Miss Emma Carey, a former Decatur girl, late of Hattiesburg. Miss. The wedding took place there to Mr. Wood of Indianapolis. They will live lit Indiana (rolls.

THE FIRST CULL For Drafted Men to Answer Physical Tests Will Come Early Next Week. EXEMPTION BOARDS Will Tighten Up on Exemptions—Relatives Must Prove Dependency. (By Webb Miller. United Press Stall Correspondent.)

Washington. July 23 —(Special I Daily Democrat) —The first call to: drafted men to answer for physi :a tests will come early next week. Gen eral Crowder and his aids had practically checked up all the draft tally sheets today; the government priu’ ing office had turned off thousands o the first sheets in and expected »t have the remainder for mailing to night.

These sheets will be sent to all th 4.558 districts. There, the board will ch» < k off numbers not applying t< their districts and will proceed to fir the lists for calling two hundred pcent of the first quota. Men called on the first draft will 1, notified by mail, but the responsibi' ity of knowing the order of the cal' lies upon the man. hence officials a<: vise that each man check himself u’ in his own district.

Inasmuch as it will take four o: five days to reach the farthest district, it is doubtful if the last of the checking can be accomplished before early next week. However, the first call in tentatively fixed for that time Boards will tighten up on exemp tions. Men who claim to have de pendent relatives must prove the dependency; their relatives must swea' to the dependency; and some one knowing the applicant must certify tithe man's situation. In Washington there will be hundreds of exemptions of men engaged in the government service. Already one room in the state, war and navybuilding is filled with certificates of bureau chiefs for their subordinates These chiefs have been informed, how ever, that they must pot claim exemp tion for a man unless he is vitally needed in conduct of war business. o PUBLIC “INTOX” CHARGE Frank Nolan, an old timer, was picked up drunk about four o'clock Saturday afternoon, by Chief Melchi, and taken to jail. He was found lyiig along Nuiiman Avenue and had evidently been to Preble in some machine and thrown oft after reaching home again. Although the sun was hot enough to bake him. he was dead to the world and after being put in jail, a doctor was summoned to keep him from expiring. He was tried in Squire Lenhart's court this afternoon and was fined five dollars. —o THE TALL OATS CONTEST

Just when we had made up our mind '.that David Wertmg had the tallest and ' finest oats in the county, along comes ' I J. D. Dailey with a stock six and 'one inch high and then this afternoon ’ Trustee Jones, of Blue Creek, raises Jack a half inch and we have the oats right here to sjtow to the non-believer, v Some oats any way. COURT MOUSE NEWS. A. D. Hunsicker and I. Bernstein took out hunting and fishing licenses, e Real estate transfers: Della Ehlerding to Izevi Sprunger. et al., lots 25 and 26. Berne. $2,000. > SON IS BORN Mrs. John Fuhrman, of Root town- ■ ship will go to Preble tomorrow to i visit with her daughter. Mrs. Ora Newhard, to whom a son was born last Friday. Mrs. Newhard was Miss Elsie Fuhrman.

KEY TO DRAFT NUMBERS. If your “red ink" number Is among the first 750 drawn you will find it in a glance in what order it is drawn. The numbers arc arranged numerically in the order of the drawing All “red ink" numbers above 1622 have been omitted, as no man in Adams county has a number above that figure. if you are not in the first 750 you may find your number in the second 750 called; if not there, in the third 750. Jf your number is not in one of those three tables you surely will not be called in the first army. First 750 Numbers Drawn. Your Order, s ::::: <1? i?. in 399 ho 373 223 492 258 ‘ 275 280 576 9QR ' 0 “ ' OAV 332 ’J! ""” 188 379 623 390 ::: 420 432 494 437 261 458 ® 486 203 487 369 507 236 509 121 513 4b9 514 310 536 14b 542 b 3l 548 155 552 650 564 123 596 132 600 207 601 43b 602 510 604 259 606 463 616 186 652 422 675 716 676 no 692 205 721 555 739 434 755 I’o 757 592 772 549 775 194 783 53 784 168 786 562 797 369 810 221 837 99 854 11 868 601 874 639 024 288 927 424 945 128 966 597 972 590 983 591 1014 303 1020 475 1031 1 339 1045 338 1066 286 1071 171 1095 35 1099 478 1103 448 1113 1459 1117 86 1146 446 1148 726 1178 *... 307 llss 122 1336 394 1237 167 1264 285 1266 191 1267 141 1282 363 1292 585 '294 724 1300 659 1322 438 1323 366 1329 318 1324 257 1331 344 1354 731 1369 170 1395 458 1419 560 1436 11 1441 ...................... 504 1455 49 1456 550 1476 571 1484 429 1495 148 1536 377 1539 227 1546 175 1548 284 1549 .'... 566 1560 fi26 1563 176 1572 88 Second 750 Numbers Drawn. Your Order of No. Call 5 1072 6 1388 11 1336 15 777 31 897 54 1078 56 1033 72 1291 93 .1432 103 1492 112 1311 128 1329 183 z 1030 218 875 269 1146 301 1228 327 1 1407 335 ..... 1169 341 1207 346 1469 350 1073 353 1242 355 815 -356 1307 360 .. 1263 363 1362 391 1328 440 1696 452 810

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