Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 212, Decatur, Adams County, 13 November 1917 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Svsry Evening Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company JOHN H. HELLER Pixeldent ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Secretary Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier 15 00 Per Month, by mall 25 cents Per Year by mall 18.00 Single Copies 3 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice In Decatur, Indiana as second-class matter.

Here's a new idea. Why not erect a Y. M. C. A. building here on the exact plans used for army service? These buildings are built at a small cost, are comfortable and would prove of great benefit to any community. Giving a dollar or two for the Y. M. C. A. fund will never raise the required amount. Os course its hard but say it’s not to be compared with the hardship that the boys will have for whom you are doing this great work. Let your heart tell you what you ought to give. Just remember that the average man is not making a living these days, that is that he is probably running behind. The over head cost of living and of operating business is so abnormally high that the average person can do no more than his best to keep even. Be fair with the other fellow. It will make it easier for every one. Without trying to frighten any one we believe that our people should give careful thought to the warning of the health officials concerning vaccination There are a few cases of small pox in the community and the dread disease . can be avoided by using the prevent-1 ative of vaccination. While we do not I fear as in the days of old, it’s well to avoid an epedemic and right now is the time to head it off. When the government gets through with the present work of the ”Ques- ! tionaire" they will know more about the men of fighting and working ages i in the United States than the men i now know about themselves. It will ; be the greatest organization, the best j system, the most wonderful machine ever created in the world and after the war is over this work will count for much in the perfecting of the greatest national government since time began. Out of forty-two big city newspapers in Michigan but twenty-three are left, the others having quit or been swallowed up by consolidation. It is said

Os course, every man has his own ideas about clothes—but we have the variety in models and fabrics to meet the personal ideas of any man. We particularly recommend Society Brand / i Clothes |i w\ to men and young men who have a natural 1 taste for good grooming. • s And remember, your size is here, re- ffrl gardless of proportions. We can furnish |'.| it in fabrics that will please, tailored to ftrl meet the most exacting requirements. 31 zW 1 TO $22.50, $25.00 and $30.00. flfr Borirtjj Srand Clef—• The Myers-Dailey Company “STYLE HEADQUARTERS”—The Store That Sells Society Brand Clothes.

’ that there are now but little more - than half us many dally papers In this * country us there wore two or three . years ago. It seems to be a survival r of the fittest for the business has bot c< m requires the aieaiert , care to produce a penny of profit. The . daily paper has become a necessity but how to furnish it at a profit is a question that is just now worrying more I than a few owners and stockholders. The expense of securing the nows from every part of the world as now demanded is much greater than is imagined by the average person and if you give it a little thought you may easily figure it out. Patience and toleration were never more needed in this country than at i tho present time. The passion that flared up at the time of the declaration of war has had time to cool. Traitors and spies will be disposed of by law. The conscientious objectors to war, to conscription, to censorship, and to the various means of conducting war are beginning to find themselves ,and though they may not yet see the righteousness of this war, they are coming to realize the necessity of not rocking the boat while in deep water. We have our army, and we have sold the bonds; we can now afford to be a little lenient wi'h the fellow citizen who still misses our exact point of view. He will be a better American if we win him than if we compel him. —Akron News.

What if you had spent four days in the muddy trenches of Flanders, had heard the scream of shells and the thud of bullets as they struck near you, had become sick at the sight of bloody comrades, your nerves shattered from the strain and your body ready to collapse, would a bright and cozy and home-like Y. M. C. A. club look good to you? Hundreds of our men are now experiencing that very thing and thousands, perhaps millions, will do so. That's what this fund we are raising today is to be used for. to cheer these lads. If you put yourself in their places you will give more cheerfully and more liberally. Satisfy your own conscience. ii 'OINCA IN SOCIfTY 0 ; ‘ tx :n::::::::: sms ar. tn: ar. sas a:: arts:: •: WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Tuesday Y. P. A. —H. F. Linn home. Tri Kappas—Mrs. Felix Holthouse. Delta Theta Tau—Frances Deiningen W. C. T. U. —Mrs. John Rex. Wednesday Zion Reformed Ladies’ Aid —Mrs. Jacob Schager.

Choir practice and Bible Class— Mrs. Minnie Daniels. Thursday. C. W. B. M.—Mrs. J. W. Kabbitt. Do Your Best Claes—Mrs. Roy Mumma. Helping Hand—Matilda Sellemuyer at lieformed S. 8. room. Walther League— Postponed until next week. Evangelical Chicken Dinner and Supper—Church basement. Friday. Birthday Club—Mr. and Mrs. Otto Kirsch. Christian Pastoral Helpers—Mrs. W Paul Marsh. Methodist Mite—Mrs. Robert Case. Hard to Beat Class—Mrs. Joe Linn.

ROCK ME TO SLEEP! Over my heart, in the days that are flown, No love like mother-love ever has shone; No other worship abides and endures, Faithful, unselfish and patient like yours: None like a mother can charm away pain From the sick aoul and the worldweary brain. Slumber's soft calms o’er my heavy lids creep; — Rock me to sleep, mother,—rock ne to sleep!—Florence Percy. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Miller of near this city entertained at dinner Sunday for the Dr. C. R. Weaver. G. T. Burk, Rev. W. P. Marsh and Fred Collier families. Mrs. Joe Linn, of Rugg street will entertain the Hard to Beat class of which Mrs. W. S. Mills is the teacher. Friday evening. Miss Matilda Sellemeyer will be hostess to the Helping Hand society at the Reformed Sunday school room Thursday afternoon. The Mite society will meet all afternoon Friday, instead of convening at two o’clock, at the home of Mrs. Robert Case, to sew for Red Cross. Mrs. Fred Schafer is an associate hostess. Mrs. Roy Mumma will entertain the Do Your Best class Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Fisher, of Madison street, had as their guests Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Schafer, Mr. and Mrs. Quincy Hildebrand, of Fort Wayne. Mrs. Jessie Deam and Mrs C. G. Reynolds, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, were guests of Mrs. L. G. Elingham at luncheon today. These two ladies, with Mrs. F. V. Mills and Mrs. J. C. Patterson, wer eentertained at dinner at the Si bray home in Fort Wayne, by Miss Mayme Sibray and her sister, Mrs. Anne McCracken. Social events planned for the U. S. Congressional party visiting in Honolulu will probably be called off on account of the death of former Queen Liliookalani. of Hawaii, who passed away Sunday, after a several months’ illness. The Christian Woman’s Board < f Missions will meet with Mrs. J. W. Rabbitt Thursday afternoon, when Mrs. Burt Mangold will be leader. Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Frank and son, Myron, and Mr. and Mrs. Leland

Frank spent Sunday in Baldwin at the L. H. Frank home, where a sort of family reunion was held in honor of Jacob Frank, who leaves soon for Pittsburg, Penna., to take a position He was former superintendent of the steel plant at St. Louis, Mo. The Zion Reformed Ladles’ Aid society will meet Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Jacob Schaffer. A good attendance is desired. The W. A. S. club met last evening at the home of Miss Leona Durkee. The regular business meeting was held after which music and games were enjoyed and a dainty luncheon was served. The next meeting will be held at the home of Miss Helen Myers. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Kirsh will entertain the ladies and gentlemen of the Birthday club at their regular monthly meet, at their home on North Second street, Friday evening. Mrs. W. Paul Marsh will entertain the Christian Pastoral Helpers Friday afternoon. Choir practice will be followed by the Bible class study Wednesday evening at the home of Mrrs. Minnie Daniels. SUNDAY DINNERS For the Soldiers in Private Families Another “Y” Duty Says HAROLD R DANIELS

Boost Y. M. C. A. in Every Possible Way—Provides All Amusements. Nov. 9, 1917. Dear Editor: — As we were asked to write about the V. M. C. A. I will tell you all I know about it. The Y. M. C. A. is a large building where they have writing paper furnished. We have all the good eats and good times in the army life here in the "Y” building and it is a helpful institution. They give us basket ball, volly ball and boxing matches here. They also find out all the people who will take soldiers out to Sunday dinner and sometimes there are quite a few of go out, some to hotels and others to private homes. So boost it all you can in your paper. Y'ours truly, HAROLD R. DANIEL. Private o MORE GERMAN PROPAGANDA. Bloomington, Ind., Nov. 13—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Prof. W. E. Zeuch of the German department of Indiana university, was under fire today on the charge of writing pro-Ger-man letters. A letter which he is said to have published, was called to the attention of the county council of defense and an investigation ordered by President William Lowe Bryan.

Duluth. Minn.. Nov. 13—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Prof. Scott Nearing, of Toledo, chairman of the executive committee of the People’s Council for Democracy and Terms of peace was expected to be turned over to the federal authorities here today following his arrest last night on a nominal charge of vagrancy. The police held Nearing without bail, alleging he was attempting to hold a secret meeting of the People's Council. Sixty patrolmen swooped down on the meeting. Four besides Nearing were arrested. Some of the officers charged Dr. Nearing with making seditious utterances regarding the war. Detroit, Mich., Nov. 13 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Plans to dynamite the docks of the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation company were revealed today during the progress of the trials of Former Police Commissioner Couzens. The docks were to have been blown up on the night of November 2. Horicon, Win., Nov. 13—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Emil Seidel, Milwaukee socialist aiderman was at liberty on bonds today following an alleged seditious speech against state and national officials here last night. He is said to hve called Mayor Hawks "A traitor to the constitution and a two by four kaiser,” o GEORGE SHELDON DEAD. Inmate of Infirmary Dies While Comrade’s Funeral is Held. George Sheldon, 84. died yesterday afternoon at tlu: county infirmary, while the funeral of Henry Runyon, | another inmate, was being held. Sheldon’s death was due to intirmi- | ties of old age. The funeral was held this afternoon with burial at the Linn Grove cemetery. A sister, Mrs. Charles Kreuumun. survives.

THE COURT NEWS Marriage License Issued to Lewis Stump and Leona Noack. HUNTERS’ LICENSES I The Dockets Have Fifteen Divorce Cases Now Pending. A marriage license was issued this afternoon at two o’clock to Lewis Stump, of Lima, Ohio, born November 20, 1890, in the signal department of the Pennsylvania company, son of James Stump, and Leona Noack, born June 9. 1890, daughter of John Walker. The bride's former marriage was dissolved by death in 1913. .. — The papers in the case of Jesse Allen, found guilty in Justice Lenhart's court, of forgery, were filed in the circuit court today, he having been bound over to court under 8500 bond.

A marriage license was issued to Harry Cope, of Portland, born November 5, 1885, son of C. Cope, to wed May Belle Moore, born September 24, 1888, daughter of John D. Moore, of Adams county, living near Bryant. Os the large number of cases on the civil docket, to be disposed of, during the ensuing term of court, the November term, which opens next Monday, fifteen are divorce cases. Hunters’ licenses were Issued to David J. McWhirter, John W. Emery, Earl Sudduth, Reuben Mettler. Real estate transfers: U. S. to John Stephen Rhea, 80 acres of St. Marys township; U. S. to Robert Tisdale, 00 acres of St. .Marys township; George W. Watson et al. to Lawrence E. Watson, 80 acres of Hartford township. SB,OOO. o— C. B. & C. DECISION SOON (United Press Service) Indianapolis, Nov. 13 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —A decision on the C. B. & C. railroad sace now pending before the P. 9. commission will be ready this week it was stated authorlively today. The petition that now owners of the company be forced to cerate the line. TO NAME ANOTHER OFFICIAL. R. D. Myers, head of the county council of defense has been asked to appoint at one an enrolling agent for Adams county to act under the United States Public Service Reserve. The official will keep tab on the men of the county, their occupation, their ability and their efforts to assist the government in this critical period. HAS TWENTY-FIVE STARS. The Methodist “service" flag has twente'-flve stars, instead of twenty, vs printed last evening, showing that number of members of the church in military service. Another service flag, showing the number of boys of Methodist families in U. S. service, i will be made.

To Beet Grow ers HOOVER MEANS BUSINESS by his appeal to grow beets which appeared in this paper November 9thHe suggests, but has the power to command. SUGAR WE MUST HAVE. If I ncle Sam has the power to take our sons and dollars for the common defense, do you think he would hesitate to conscript our acres for necessary food production if this were necessary? The L nited States government has practically taken over our business. We are under its orders, e arc omg this cheerfully and in a patriotic spirit, because we realize we must all work for the common goo<1 ’ J You should raise beets in 1918 then, not for the dollars alone but as a good American patriot, who is the trenches.* 1 h °' nC l ° baek “ P our own boys HOLLAND-ST. LOUIS SUGAR COMPANY

It’s Economy to Choose M Suit and Overcoat Here You can’t afford cheap clothes this yeat all years. QUALITY is vital-for quality nie ans J wear, means fewer clothes tor you to buy i n 7 long run. HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX are nJ clothes. They’re all-wool and are made to w? long time; such suits and overcoats save money fl you, year in and year out. That’s what you’re after; it helps both y ou . your country. ’ 41 Hart, Schaffner & Marx make, SIB.OO to $25 oe Clothcraft make $12.50 to s2o,m HOLTHOUSE~SCHULTE & (

MASONIC CALENDAR FOR WEEK ENDING NOV. 17TH. Tuesday, Nov. 13. Stated meeting of Blue Lodge. DAVID E SMITH. W. M. DEMOCRAT WANT ADS PAY RIG

«i 'ti Ij The foundation of many a big business hashed the hard-earned Savings of some poor boy. Do you want to “get ahead?” Do you want your boy to “get ahead?” An account started at this bank today may spe| the difference between future success and failure, |

CARD ° F THA| J| We wish in this manner to J i the neighbors and friends kindly helped us every Wa , during our sudden loss and p.7 also desire to thank the chi- , Lucas and Rev. Conway for thJ and consoling words and ail th expressed their sympathy J gifts. MR. AND MRS. H B (JI Democrat Want Ads’s