Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 182, Decatur, Adams County, 8 August 1917 — Page 2

2 A1LY DEMQCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company JOHN H. HELLER President ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE. Secretary Subecriptlon Ratee Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier $5.00 Per Month, by mall 25 cents Per Year, by mail $3.00 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice in Decatur. Indiana, as second-class matter. The governors of several states will it seems make a real effort to obtain coal for the coming winter at prices that the public can afford to pay but the question is whether or not this can or will be done in time to prevent much suffering. It will be impossible to move the great amount of coal needed to supply this country, we fear, and it therefore becomes a question not so much of the price-as it is of getting the coal. The problem is still a serious one. We believe the selection of A. D Suttles as a member of the school board for the city of Decatur, was a very wise one and will meet the approval of the people of this corporat lonMr. Suttles had a number of years experience as a teacher, and for manyyears has been in active business. I:c ing at present, assistant cashier of the Old Adams County Bank. He has the interest of the schools at heart and z has several children attending. That he will give his very best efforts to the work is the belief of every one who knows this new member of th? board. The suggestion that eac h person pick out one of the members of company A and make him his “Sammy ’, arranging to write him. give him such help and advice as you can. send him a gift once in a while if you feel you c an, do anything to make life as pleasant for this soldier as you can. Yo'tlr] efforts may be the means of preventing the young man from becoming home sick, from seeking unclean enter tainment, may make him a better soldier. Perhaps it won't but it won't cause you much trouble to try it an I you will feel better for having made Jhe effort. Pick out a “‘Sammy.’ We have never just understood why any person would start trouble just to be starting it. though we admire a man who tights when he has a purpose in fighting. In these strenous days when every one is trying his best to serve the nation, to go through the ordeals in a manly, wise and brave manner, every fellow who likes to fight just for the fun of it. ought to remember that he may be starting something mighty serious. If you were ever careful in your life or ever expect to be. use caution about what you do and say now. You will save trouble for yorself and every body else and we will all be better off when the clouds roll away. Today the pacifist may be heard crying “Peace! Peace!" to a deaf world. In his ignorance he does not see that there can be no peace where conditions antecedent to peace do noexist. The belief in war. as a nation-

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i til expediency, as a national tonic, as a national virtue, had to be crushed I iw Germany by the lesson of defeat. And this because the succhss of the seven weeks' war hud fed on the victory of lite seven days' war; the glory of the seven months' war. upon th > triumph of the seven weeks’ war; whilst the alcohol for all of them hud been distilled from the surpassing elfort of the seven years’ war. No nation can be safe to its neighbors with Ideals built on such foundations, and the ideals of Germany were hewn, for all the world to see. in the marble of that terrible monument frowning over the battlefield of Leipsic. The cost of teaching Germany this lesson is a terrible one to the world, but the world had . y it because it was not entirely light it«elf. othe"wise the cost would not h r . dto be incurred. Still the cost is being paid, manfully, resourcefully, ungrudgingly, and the nations who are paying it .tie coming out of the furnace of self sa rilice purified like the refiners' gold. It is because of this that if the allied nations will do their work as wholeheartedly as their armies in the field, with the same absence of selfishness, and with the same regard for the common weal, the war can be brought t,> an end this winter. There is one thin . against which the central powers cannot hold out, and that is the moral force of a world in arms to support principle. When the battle is over, when peace has been signed, a peace not of i>acifists, but of principle, there jWill come the day of reconstruction. But the ranks of the reconstructionists will not be recruited from the profit mongers any more than from those who have loved to ride upon the red horses, or those who have seen only bloodshed where there was sacrifice. These and all their tribe, in spite of all their activity, are the spiritual Rip Van Winkles, who can have no part in the discovery of that newworld which was seen from the rocks of Patmos.—Christian Science Monitor | DOINGS IN SOCIETY § u:in: as:::: :tr,:::::::: as :::: ttt- 5 WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Thursday. C. W. B. M. —Mrs. Minnie Daniels. Friday. Mite Society-—Mrs. James Stults. Mrs. Minnie Daniels will be hostess to the Christian Woman’s Board of Missions, Thursday evening. Mrs. Burt Mangold wHI be leader. Mrs. Lon Jaqua. of Portland, was the guest of Mrs. Sarah Hammell and daughters yesterday. Mrs. J. H. Bremerkamp and daughter. Florence, have gone to Celina, 0.. for two weeks at a cottage there. She goes to join Mrs. William Hartings and daughters, Mayme and Mrs. Harmon Gillig and Miss Genevieve Bremerkamp, who went Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Vance gave a six o’clock dinner party last evening for their daughter. Lee Anna’s ninth birth- - day anniversary. As whooping cough , is prevalent, there was no children's , party this year, the guests being confined to the immediate family, including Lee Anna’s grandparents and uncle and aunts and the new little cousin. 1 Catherine Elizabeth Sellemeyer. Mr. £ and Mrs. Fred Sellemeyer. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Heuer. Mr. and Mrs. Alb -rt Sellemeyer and babe and Miss Della e Sellemeyer were the guests. Gladiolis • and other summer garden flowers were decorations and the birthday candles . supplied the lights for the dinner. Mrs. James Stults will entertain the Mite society of the Methodist church Friday afternoon. After the business session the ladies will sew for Red Cross. Mr. and Mrs. Mood Beavers will entertain the Beulah Sunday school class members this evening for their daughter. The Delta Theta Tail sorority gave a lovely lawn party, picnic and dance last evening at the home of Miss Marcella Kuebler, in honor of three pledges. Misses Lucile Smith. Genevieve Berling and Josephine Balsm?. Jack-o’lanterns suspended among the trees on the lawn and also on the porch supplied a soft light and out of door games were played until the .dancing hour, when the company went into the house, where the rugs had been removed from the hardwood floors, making an ideal dance floor. At eight o'clock a picnic supper watt provided. Helping themselves from i

the table, cafeteria style, the guests proceeded to the cool lawn where the delicious repast was eaten. Each member Invited n boy friend and the company numbered about thirty. Mr. and Mrs Ed Schafer left this morning for their some at South Bend in their car. They have been entetallied by their brother and slater, Mr. and Mrs Fred Schafer since lust Thursday. Sister M. Waltrude. mother superior of an academy at Washington. D being of the order of the Holy Cross, who is visiting with a sister | at Ft. Wayne, visited here yesterday with old friends. She was accotn-; panted here by Mrs. Ellen Durbin ofi Huntington, anil they were guests at . the home of Mrs. Helen Berling. | where they received many friends, during the day and evening Sister M. Waltrude was formerly Miss Julia Adelsberger of this city. — Friends have received cards from Mr. and Mrs. Will Helm, who are on their wedding trip. They are now at ' the home of Mrs. Helm's sister. Mrs. A. B. Sheckler. in Fort Wayne and are looking for a house there, where they will make their home Mr. Helm is employed as a tank builder at Bowser's. After the regular meeting of the official board of the Methodist church last evening, the board members an I their wives were entertained by the Rev. ami Mrs. F. F. Thornburg on the parsonage lawn which was nicely lighted and arranged for the best com fort of the guests, with social amuse ments and refreshments of ice cream and cake A number of young girls assisted in the serving. The board comprises twenty-five or thirty meri hers. Miss Ella Mutschler and Mrs. B F Shroyer entertained at 6 o’clock din ner Tuesday for Miss Bertha Rein king of South Bend and Mr. and Mrs Paul Reinking and daughter, Mar garet. BOARD HAS EXAMINED (Continued from Page One) No exemption. 171 — Floyd Sprague. Monroe. Pass ed. No exemption. 172— Preston Pyle. Geneva. Passed Claimed exemption, wife and tw< children. 173 — Otto Heusleman, Berne. Ex amined at Canton, Ohio. 174 — Floyd Smitley, Decatur. lb jected. 175— Herman Bruner, Geneva. Pass ed. No exemption. 176 — Fred Baker, Decatur. Passed Claimed exemption, wife and tw< children. 177 — Otto Weitfeldt. Monroeville, R R. 5. Rejected. 178 — Otto Klickman. Monroe. Re jected. 179 — Cliffton Duer, Monroe. Nc' present. 180— Charles Brodbeck. Decatur. Passed. Claimed exemption, wife an 1 one child. 181— Harrison Andrews, Decatur. Passed. No exemption. 182 — Win. Smitley. Monroe. Passe;!. Claimed exemption, wife and one child. 183 — Lewis Herman Hammond, Decatur. Passed. Did not claim exemption. 184— Raymond Ray, Decatur, R. R. 5. Rejected. 185 — Floyd Liby. Monroe. Passed. Claimed exemption, on account taking care of farm. 186 — Thomas Callihan. Geneva. Passed. Will appeal to district board for re-hearing of physical disability. 187 — Milo Glendenning. Geneva. R. R. 1. Passed. Claimed exemption, wife and child. 188— Peter Lawrence Miller, Decatur. R. R. 4. Passed. No exemption. 189 — Fred Kamholz, Berne. Rejected. 190— Otto Beiberich, Magley. R. R. , 1. Passed. Claimed exemption, wife , 191—Cecil Gause. Decatur. Passed, i Claimed exemption, wife and child. I 192 —Albert Ineichen. Geneva. Passed. Claimed exemption, wife and one child. 193— August Beiberich. Magley. Re1 jected. 194 — Hanni. Berne. Passed. Claimed exemption, religion and wife. 195— Lewis Sprunger, Monroe. Rejected . 196— Guytress Eley. Berne. Rejected

— _ I 1 YOUR WINTER’S COAL? Have you put it in? It's time and we can furnish you with a supply on several good grades. We have on hands: Plenty of Stove Size Anthracite. White Ash. Hocking Valley and Kentucky Soft Coal. All at the right prices. Will be at the yards near Erie station any time except during meats. ’Phone 199 and leave your order at once. Emerson Bennett

ELECTJTRUSTEE (Continued from Page One) the Moses Greenhouse Company. The city now furnishes the greenhouse | with exhaust steam, hut it Is a legal question whether or not they have the , right to sell "live" steam. Until it idefinitely decided the greenhouse will be furnitbed with the exhaust ami | plans now under way for the laying of pipes from the greenhouse to the water works plant will be carried out. . City Health Officer Costello spoke ( at length about the unsanitary condition of the city, both the business and I resident section. He stated that any l | person having refuse or garliage must ‘ ' conceal it in galvanized or east iron •cans and that after a person or prop-! lerty owner was ordered to clean up and did not comply with the order.' that prosecution would follow. A number of eases are now in their se, -| ond stages and if they do not act with- ( in the next twelve hours the city j health officer will prosecute. These is an ordinance to this effect. The finance committee took up and allowed the following bills and the' session adjourned. Ft. Wayne Gas Welding C0...$ 3.50 Wayne Belting & Supply Co.. 461 National Meter Co 8t.50 i James B. Clow 13.98 Decatur Foundry, Furnace & i Machine Co 37.58 P. * H Supply Co 110.55 Standard Oil Co 41.00 ' Crane Co **•> Natl. Mill * Supply Co 26 90 ’ Lawrence Schlegel 3.20 , Waterworks pay roll 98.22. General Hocking Fuel Co 665.28 Mathias Coffee 15.00 T. St. L. & W. R. R. Co 194.64 i Lee Hardware Co 11.64 j Citizens’ Phone Co 5.75 Crandall Packing Co 9.53 Wayne Belting & Supply Co. . 93b j H. W. Johns-Manville Co 11.36 i General Electric Co 37.40 \lberger Pump & Condenser Co 2082.00 I The Arco Co 48.00 1 Natl. Mill Supply Co 6 96 Henry Schultz 3.00 Decatur Herald Co 7.65 ( Lee Hardware Co 4.10. | F. V. Mills 6.75 City Firemen 67.50 Citizens’ 'Phone Co 3.75 'saac Chronister 32 50 street Commissioner's pay roll 212.00 Volunteer Firemen 10.00 I. D. McFarland 3.00 Decatur. Foundry, Furnace & Machine Co 75 n olice pay roll 90.00 Tohn Barnett 7.00 L. W. Frank 1.00 L. L. Baumgartner 37.50 Wm. Schumacher 50 Crick-Tyndall Co 6.04 VI. J. Mylott pay roll 162.50 Mathias Coffee 15.00 loseph Coffee 7.00 1. R. & I. R. R. Co 223.85 lohn Thomas 142.86 •Ivans Coal Co. 728.92 Kalver-Noble Garage Co 19.15 Standard Oil Co 30.39 Natl. Mill Supply Co 54.97 V. C. Foos pay roll 276.97 GREAT STRUGGLE (Continued from Page One) would mean great readjustment of existing battle lines, and while perhaps not fatal, it would at least be discouraging to the west front situation. The fact that Switzerland is resisting the loan proposal came as a surprise here. Switzerland, compos ed of German. French and Italian stock chieflly, is regarded as pro German. and Germany several months ago used her as a go-between to make a psuedo peace offer to the U. S. “The suggestion is made here that the U. S. might do well to swing her forces into the southern end of the western front, flanking Switzerland for such a move would tend to keep Switzerland in line. Authorities here point out Germany’s demands for a loan indicate the growing financial strain within the empire. State department advices recently showed some decrease in Germany's gold reserve. The pressure sooner or later will become too much for Germany and she will collapse, this government believes. o COURT HOUSE NEWS. E. L. Carroll and Lawrence Beitler were granted hunting and fishing’ licenses. [ Licensed to marry: Walter Young, > pipe fitter, of St. Louis, Mo., born* August 8, 1877. to wcyl Elora Hoff, of* Berne, born July 25, 1881.

I Tirca " - Take No Chances I 1 jmjff in Tire Buying | /eP/J at..*—— A. I"'/?/7 11 known quality—of known endurance. ( . ArA , J V United State. Tiree-ell five of them, ‘Royal Cord.’ Nobby. ‘Chain,’ ‘U.co,’ ‘Plain.’ ’ a — re lir, ‘ of known ’ demon “ r, ‘ e<l * nd Fro ’ e< * “ '4 endurance. , I —the make of tire, that coats leal per mile tod >y than any I other make of tire—now or ever. i Proof-the con.iat.nt and per.iat.nt ye.r-by-yeai, month-by-month aalea increaaea of United State. Tirea. United States Tires X-KwWk ‘Royal Cord‘ ‘Nobby’ ’Chain’ ‘U.co’ ‘Hain’ ‘llh lw K//> Hal t. All Sterling Ht.rth and rar f V . | A complete stock of United States Tires carried by Schafer Hardware • Decatur Carriage Works. T homas Durkin Garage. I

I SICK WOMAN HAO CRYING SPELLS Restored to Health by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Enhaut, Pa.—“l was all run down and weak inwardly. I had female troubles S—- — n and nervous feelings and my head bothered me. 1 would often have crying spells and feel as if I was not safe. If | I heard anyone com- , ing I woulil run and I lock the door so they < would not see me. i I tried several doc- ’ ,Z tors and they did not . hel P me 801 saili to mother ‘I guess I will have to die as there is no help for me. ’ She got me one of your little books and my husband said I should try one bottle. I stopped the doctor’s medicine and took Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. It soon made a change in me and now I am strong and do all my work.”—Mrs. Augustus Baughman, Box 86, Enhaut, Pa. Why will women continue to suffer , day in and day out and drag out a sickly, half-hearted existence, missing threefourths of the joy of living, when they can find health in Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound? If you would like free confidential advice address Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. o — Miss Helen Balsma left this mornin for Fort Wayne for a visit and from there will go to Lafayette to Ire the guest of relatives. MANGOLD & BAKER Corner Monroe and 7th Sts. PHONE 215. 25 Tb. bag Cane Sugar $2.35 24i/ 2 tt>. Bag Flour $1.75 Black Raspberries, a can 15c Blackberries, a can 15c 'Pineapples, a can 10, 15, 25c (Good Table Peaches, a can 20c [Sardines, Mustard or Oil, 3 for... 25c I Quaker Corn Flakes, 3 for 25c fTuna Fisrh 10, 15, 25c I Red Beans, 2 cans 25c [3 doz. extra heavy Rubbers, 3 for 25c Mason Can Lids, a doz 25c Tin Lids, a doz 5c Special on Pork and Beans, 4 cans 25c Oranges, Bananas, Lemons, Celery, Apples and Watermelons. We Pay Cash or Trade for Produce: Butter, 25-30 c; Eggs, 28c. Arthur ft Fred Mangold ** Baker

This Is The Last Week For Special Prices on Tires and Accessories Buy Now and SAVE .MONEY. Saturday is the LAST Day. DECATUR CARRIAGE WORKS ' Corner First and Monroe Sts. ’Phone 123

L ncle Solomon Billman, recognized as one of the expert gardeners of Decatur. this morning showed us a beautiful and perfect specimen of New York Rural potatoes, a late product, of

SOMEONE SAID You re going to have a photograph made before you go, aren't youand you promised— You and your family will be proud of that picture in years to come. MAKE THE APPOINTMENT TODAY. ERWIN STUDIO Over Callow and Kohne Drug Store. ’Phone 807 Bring or mail us your Kodak work tt 1...... JJJ. :jj . . JJ; . a , jjj. ;JJ , ;JJ . ;JJ , , a ,. a ,.... .„. • Tire And Tube Sale ! • * * ii jj 8 _ a 'hi account of being overstocked, for ten day*; g only, commencing Thursday, August 16. we will J g sell tires and tubes at the following prices. These j H P nces are less than today’s cost: I TIR ES g 30x3 Smooth $10.50 H 30x3*4 Smooth $14.00 H 30x3*4 Non-skid $15.50 § , TUBES 30x3 $2 25 g 30x3*4 ?$3.00 our choice of Ajax or Firestone. THIS SALE IS FOR CASH ONLY ! kalver noble garage co I g HTRD AGENCY

which he planted four bushels .Er ; the hill in which this one grew »<■« seven more, all perfect and Vncle > expects to have a large production these excellent potatoes.