Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 298, Decatur, Adams County, 18 December 1917 — Page 1

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MR. KERENSKY APPEARS MN This Time With an Army of Several Thousand Just Outside of Petrograd. REVOLUTION IS ON Mass Meetings Being Held in Russia—All is Quiet on Western Front. (United Piess Service) Copenhagen, Dec. 18—(Spe-| cial lo Daily Democrat)Former Premier Kerensky has appeared near Petrograd at the head of several thousand men. according to a dispatch todav The dispatch stated that the bolsheviki has sent out armed forces to meet this counter-rev-olution. Whether there has been any actual fighting between the two forces has not been stated. (By Joseph Shaplen, United Press staff correspondent.) Stockholm, Dec. Is -iSpecial to Daily Democrat) The Maximalist regime is slowly but inevitably riding to a tall. Reliable information from travelers reaching here today as well as antibolshevik! newspapers smuggled via Haparanda indicate even the Petre grad garrison no longer supports the Lenine-Trotsky ring. Twenty-six of Russia's provinces and territories have formally refused recognition of the bolsheviki ■ government.” Every bolsheviki claim from Petrograd must be heavily discounted. Terrorism reigns in Petrograd. The cleverest introguers of the old Russian regime are aiding the extremists in playing no the minds of the ignor ant masses of the soldiers by fairy tales that there will be an immediate /evolution in Germany. The date set' for opening of the constituent assembly was the occasion for a monster demonstration in Petrograd in favor of this meeting. Not only was the meeting suppressed, but the bolsheviki have not permitted any news of it to be sent out. The demonstrators expressed strong condemnation of the bolsheviki es-i forts to wreck the assembly. That the Maximalists feel they can no longer rely on the Petrograd garrison, one of their greatest sources o: power, is indicated in notice that Lettish troops have been ordered to sui - ersede them and are now policing the city. Such known German provocatem as Kommisaroff. Ortoff and I ritski arej new bolsheviki police chiefs. I ite notorious prc-German agent Scheur was present at Mchileff on the daj General Dukhonin was murdered and in Petrograd the anti-bolsheviki fore s whisper that is was Scheur who engi neered the assassination. Kerensky has been chosen a mem her of the constituent assembly not only from Samara but as a delegate representing the entire southwestern army. Mass meetings in denunciation of the bolsheviki rule are becoming fro quent in Petrograd. Workmen and soldiers held one there last week -t which the labor leader Beretelli angrily warned the bolsheviki that they must not dissolve the assembly. Lead ing educational te<hni<al and journo-

g THE PRESIDENT BOOSTS | Present Wilson, with all <h« nppealins spirit rs "lu.h g hZs ramble, says of the Red (he Krea test eSieien- g | -The best wav in whichJ hjch (his war wi n entail |cv and energy to the rehe hands of a sing ] e expenenc- n | will be to concentrate it in Bed organization which ha. public instrumentality lot « international colcentration of admimstra- | 0 fiich purposes. Indeed, > absolutely neces • I tive action in this matter seem to ■ | 8 sarv and 1 herein earnestly al and dlstr e SS 8 | iribule •» fl' ariselt «f this M't for humantty g -ssfe EF-rse t7ncth r u d nde?stood, we who have been showing g »X°n3m.t 'te I but their ranks work of ".'""'"J borne is m

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■rioi.kT "" L ™"»- i -*- ■ Mug to coax over to their ,” " SOnu? us old revolutionary I ate archives under Kerensky ct v tie’ ° f early evolutionary “ tlvities and George Plechanoff, another social revolutionary, both <f "horn are now confined in st. Peter . and Paul fortress |)W , aug(> of support of Kerensky, were offered their liberty under certain conditions I Whi( ‘ h wnul(i “"’he it appear thev supI ported the Maximalists. Both refused. Both the provinces of Bessarabia, tatka. Kaluga. Kostroma. Novgorod, Nizhni-Novgorod. Orenburg. Orloff, Riazian, Slmbirk. Smolensk. Tauris. I 'er. Tobolsk, Tula and Cherson and I the territories of Trans-Baikal, Seniij retch, Ural, Yakutsk. Kutano. Amur. .Vladivostok. Ekaterincslav, Samara Jand Kursk have refused to aeknowl-' edge the bolsheviki authority. 1 he Maximalists, it was stated here j today, have dissolved the entire Red | ( rcss and medical service on the i northern front. London, Dec. 18—(Special to Daily j Democrat I—Field Marshal Haig had “rtothing special” to report from the west front today. BULLETIN Paris. Dec. 18—(Special to DailyDemocrat) Active artillarying along the Rhone-Rhine canal was reported in today's official statement. The German official statement announced capture of American soldiers on Nov. 3, located the American forces as near the Rhine-Rhone canal. The only other activity reported by i the war office was repulse of German raids south of Givencourt. DYNAMITE GOVERNOR'S HOME (Unitea gtes.- Service) Sacramento, Cal.. Dec. 18—(Special to Daily Democrat) —An attempt lo dynamite the governor's mansion and kill Governor William 1). Stephens and [his wife, was made early today when ; a charge of explosives was set off in the southwest wall of the building. I The rear porch was blown off and a large hole was torn in the brick work cf the building. Although Governor Stephens, his wife and servants were asleep in the upper floor of the building. nobody was injured and the dam | ' age was confined to the exterior wall of the building. I Pro-German agents of sympathizers I are blamed by the police for the outtage. Governor Stephens returned only last night from Los Angeles, where he had delivered an address in which he advocated sterner methods in suppressing enemy agents and . enemy propaganda. CORN SHOW OPENS TODAY The Adams county corn clubs annual show opened this morning at Monroe and will continue through Wednesday and Thursday. A fine display of Adams county corn, raised by both children and adults, Is on show. Mr Thornburg, of Winchester, judge, 'arrived today and the exhibitors will soon know to whom belong the laurels. County Agent Overton. Clyde Harden, secretary of the corn club: and Counjiv School Superintendent E. S. Christen attended the show today. NOW IN BARRACKS Ear l Colter. wMlisted Thursday, in the 20th engineers’ corps, and is now at the barracks at Columbus, 0 expects to leave the. first of the week for Washington, D. C. 8

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, December 18, 1917

ELECTIONS HELU ~ Congregation of the Christian Church Holds An1 nual Election. >■ THE SUNDAY SCHOOL — [* I i Also Chooses Its Staff of Oflicers for the Ensuing Year. The congregation of the Christian ..church elected the following officers: Elders G. T. Burk. B. F. Kern, J. I. E. Anderson. ■j Trustee—G. T Burk Deacons William Engle, John . Schultz. J. W. Rabbitt, Jacob Magley, Joe Cloud, Verne Knepper. A. L. Brentlinger, Fred Collier S. It. Miller Clerk —Dr. Mangold. Treasurer—Dr. Weaver. Chorister—Fred Collier. Assistant—J. E. Anderson. The Christian Sunday school has the following new officers: Superintendent—Dr. Burt Mangold. Assistant—Frank Kern. Secretary—Florence Lichtensteiger. First Assistant Marcia Helm. Second Assistant Mina Collier. Treasurer —Dr. ('. R. Weaver. Pianist—Mrs. Irene Steele. Assistant—lrene Schafer. Chorister —J. E. Anderson. Assistant —Fred Collier. Librarian—John Schultz. ATTEND DISTRICT MEETING Rev. and Mrs. F. F. Thornburg, of the local M. E. church; Rev. J. L. Conway and wife. John Tinkham, Rev. and Mrs. Farrar, O. J. Suman, from east of the city, were among those who went to Fort Wayne- this morning to attend the annual settlement day of the churches of the Fort Wayne district. ANOTHER TEST Three Chicago Chemists With Local Men Made River Trip. WATER SHOWS CLEAR Efforts of Sugar Company to Prevent Contamination j Seem Successful. In order to prove without doubt that the sewage from the Holland-St. Louis Sugar Company's factory in this city does not contaminate the waters of the St. Mary's river a second tour of the. river was undertaken Sunday by three Chicago chemists accompanied by Homer H. Knodle and Frank Aurand of this city. The first stop was made at the Ball's bridge, three miles north of the city where a hole was chopped in the ice and a lair sample of the watc.i

taken. It was tested immediately, at great trouble, to be certain that no additional oxygen mixed with the sample | Il tested good. The second stop of. the party was at the Scheimann, bridge where the operation was repeated. in all. six tests were made by the chemists, and more than sixty ■ miles of hard travel was done Io reach the places where the tests were made. The last test was made at the Broad-1 way bridge in the outskirts of Foit. Wayne, an operation watched by more than one hundred people. The results of this test, good as l they are, must show without doubt that the waters of the St. Mary's river are not contaminated by the sugar company’s plant. Being under ice, precluding the waters taking up free oxygen from the air, the tests were chemically exact. The two becatur men aceompanie 1i the party as guides and to see the tests performed. They selected the spots from which the samples were taken and checked up the results. Upon the return of the party from down river they visited spots above the sugar house where samples were taken and tested. These samples did not show any appreciable difference. The content in vegetable matter was practically the same, while the oxygen

)+ *+ 4. +++ ++ * .J. ~ + + THE PRICE OF BREAD. + + — + ' + The price of bread as fixed by + ♦ the food commission is eight and’ + '• + one-half cents for a pound loaf, + ♦ wrapped. This price is absolute, + ♦ and this price only should be + ♦ charged. S. E. HITE, + I•> Food Director. + +++*++ + + + + + tested variously, according to the depth from which it was taken. I FACES ONE MORE OBSTACLE. tUnlteo Press Service) Washington. I). (’.. Dec. 18 (Special to Daily Democrat) Nationwide prohibition today faced one more obstatic in congress. Passed late yesterday by Hie house by only eight votes more than the required two- , thirds, it was sent to the senate for'] action on a house amendment. | Unanimous consent is necessary to, senate action today, the last day heI ‘ • fore the Christmas recess. If one:’ • "wet" senator objects the resolution 11 must go over until after the holidays.. Senator Morris Bhepherd. Texas, an-'' thor of the resolution, will move a ' concurrence as soon as the house measure is received. Although the ’ difference in the two branches is over 1 s ratification by the states in six or f 1 seven years. William J. Bryan declar-l ’ ed adoption by three-fourths of the 1 states "within three years” is likely. ' Bryan joined with the legislative committee. of the anti-saloon league I in congratulating the country on the 1 passage of prohibition in congress. < “I regard it as the most moral reform I of the generation,” said Bryan. TOOK FIRST L?NE _ TRENCHES. , (United Press Service) ( Indianapolis. Ind., Dec. 18 —(Special to Daily Democrat) Indiana ( Red Cross workers have captured the t f first line trenches in the drive for j ( 700,000 members, it was announced I r at local headquarters today. It will j \ be a hard fight, but that it would bel . [ I victorious was the confident belief of the Red Cross leaders. Seventy-five , : thousand members are expected here f • and of that number, more than 10.000 . were procured the first day. PRESIDENT HAS TROUBLE TOO (United Prw-s Service) Washington, Dec. 18—(Special to , Daily Democrat) — President Wilson I has to get his coal just like anybody , else —in homeopathic doses. So today ' when two tons of the precious subI stance was received at the white I house, secret service men guarded il ' solicitiously. until it had been stowed j in the bins, and when a white house attendant swept up the dust just as • carefully as though it were stray I j diamonds. FILE COUNTY BILLS Next Saturday, December 22nd, the last day for filing bills against - he county for this year and Auditor John Mosure requests lhat all who have bills to file get them in by that time 1 that the business for the year may be • cleaned up as provided by law. 1 v Please remember that bills must be | U filed by Saturday. ( 1 COmTngT FROM° HATTIESBURG 1 r I i- Deputy Auditor Martin Jaberg re- ( I' celved a telegram this morning at)- , i ncuncing that his brother. Edward, a' , e Camp Shelby. Hattiesburg. Miss.. Is , i! enroute home to attend the funeral of , e his father, Samuel Jaberg. He ex- , rlpects to arrive tomorrow morning.

knitted goods wanted. All those who are doing knitting | for the Red Cross and have any of | the knitted garments completed, are. requested to turn them into head quarters that they may be shipped out for the boys’ Christmas. CARD OF THANKS. Mrs. V. P. Ball and children extend their sincere thanks to the friends, neighbors and lodges for expressions of sympathy and help during the illness and at the time of the death of Mr. Ball. I o TRI KAPPAS’ NOTICE. Members of the Tri Kappas are urged to be present at an important | meeting in the middle room of the I lower library floor, at 7:30 this even- ' ing. rs ® READ 771E ADJ

BOYS ARE HAPPY Captain Dunn Writes Local Red Cross That Sweaters Came in Handy. ARE WELL CLOTHED Battery A Loses First Man When Greensburg Lad Dies of Pneumonia. Camp Shelby. Mis’. December 13. 1917. Chairman Red Cross, Decatur. Indiana. Dear Friend: As you know Battery "A" got the sweaters and they are OURS. And they certainly came in good and handy, as the battery has been out on a trench digging detail for two weeks now and il has been cold for them. Every man now has two suits of wool underwear, one wool uniform, three blankets and in a few days i hope, our coats and gloves. No heavywool socks yet. They come In tomorrow and they are mighty glad of it. I hope the people of Adams county get some kind of a Christmas present for every man. Battery “A" will have another big feed, with a tree and a program of some kind. No passes are to be given from December 15th to January 15th, except in the gravest cases, as death and such eases. To neither officers nor men. We lost our first man on the 9th, a Company “B" man. Had measles ami then Lobar pneumonia. He was from Greensburg. Every Company "A" man is on the job good and strong. It would do your heart gotxl to see them go to the Army Game. Thanking the noble Red Cross for what they have done for us and what they are doing for others. I remain. Yours, C. R. DUNN, Captain 139th, F. A. MAILS ABE HEAVY Christmas Rush Begins a Whole Week Before the Holiday. UNUSUALLY HEAVY As the Rush Usually Begins Only Five Days Before. That the Christmas mails will be heavier this year than at any time in the history of the postoifice, was predicted by Bost master Bosse this morning. For the first great excessive burden of Christmas mails weighted down the carriers this morning. Several trips were made from (he postoffice during the morning by each carrier, before they got fairly started on their long routes. The Christmas rush usually begins five days before Christmas. bul this year the rush is on a full week before, giving rise to the belief lhat the mails will be unusually heavy throughout. The out going mails have been , heavy for some time on account of the great number of parcels being sent to the soldiers at the various cantonments here and the forces abroad. A special extra man to help in the parcels post department has been employed in the person of Jesse Swartz and these carriers of parcels have been very busy for some time. To. add to the inconvenience of > speedy moving of the mail the trains continue late on account of the snows ATTEND CONVENTION Frank Wemhoff, western manage for the Wayne Oil Tank & Pump Com pany, with headquarters at the Sat Francisco office, who is here visif.lm with his mother. Mrs. Mary Wmnhoff went to Fort Wayne and tomorrow will attend a convention of all the salesmen and managers of the com ' pany. There will be about 125 in attendance. “ w. r7c7initiation A meeting of the W. R. G. will lo held Thursday evening at the G. A. R. hall at which time Ihe initiation of i! candidates will take place. * »

I DELEGATION TO GENEVA. The following delegation from this j city went to Genova today to help in I the Red Cross membership tarn-; Hpaign. L. L. Baumgartner, J. T. Merryman. J C. Hutton, Dr. Weaver, Rev. Butler. Rev. Mills, Rev. Hanna. C. L. Walters, Charles Christen. J. 8. Peterson, John Stults, W. W. Lower, Wilson Beery, (' S. Niblick, C. J. Lutz. Dan Tyndall. Dr. W. E. Smith, H’W. A. Klepper. French Quinn. RED CROSS BOOTHS Red Cross Isioths where subscrip-1 lions for membership and magazines will be received timing this campaign, were placed in the Niblick, Boston. Schaler, \\ tunes ami Runyon-Engeler stores. Girls dressed as Red Cross nurses are in charge of lhe same and will lie glad to receive anyone as a member. IS DISTRIBUTED Money Collected on the November Installment of Taxes IS NOW APPORTIONED To Various Places Where It Will be Used—What Each Gets. The money collected from the November installment of taxes has been j apportioned to the various funds where it will be expended. This was done to the approval of the state, the settlement sheet made out by Auditor John Mosure and his deputy, Mat 1 in Jaberg, having been O. K'd. The sheet shows that the total of $251,464.3" was collected on the November installment, of which amount the sum of $35,169. 16 goes to the! state and is apportioned to the fol lowing funds: State Tax $ 6.556.:>7 | Benevolent Institution 8,436.88 I State Debt Sinking 1,265.50: State School 12,160.47 I State Educational Institution 5.905.82 | State Vocational Education. 8-11.12. Local apportionments are: County Tax $35,417.92 Township Tax 10,114.751 Tuition Tax 18,710.80 Special School 40,026.01 Road Tax 30.31 j Poor Tax 1,317.42 Additional Road 43.42 I Corporation Road Tax .. 25,915.54 Turnpike Tax 16,789.33 Macadam Road Tax 67.036 91 Library Tax 892.80 Cheeks payable to the trustees on account of the township, road, additional road, special school and local tuition funds, are awaiting then) at the auditor’s office as follows: Union township $ 1,998.88, Root township 2864 95. . Preble township 2844 50 Kirkland township 2252 13 Washington township 8428 95 St. Marys 3885.56 Blue Creek township 4207.46 Monroe township 6563.65 [ | French township 1554 56 . Hartford township 4040.70 i \ Wabash township 4350.67 ■ I Jefferson township 3247.95 Decatur 1034 : SS Additional paid prior to tills 84.2 S 1 Monroe (corporation) 620.00 > Geneva 3090.31 > Berne 3433.35 - Decatur (schools) 15.686.91 Berne (schools) 4,074.6? e Geneva (schools) 2.923.7' i-| Decatur library 892.81 THAT CHRISTMAS DINNER e If you know of any person who a needs a Christmas dinner be sure to is notify the Elks lodge any time this 8- week and the dinner will be provided. The lodge will make their annual dis tributicn of Christmas dinners to de?r serving poor. FRED THIEME VERY LOW It g Fred Thieme, well known farmer of, f. Union township who has been ill for| w a number of days, suffered a second ] e stroke of paralysis this morning and) t- his condition at noon was reported n most serious, hopes for his recovery having been practically abandoned. evangeucal*prayer service cl There will be no prayer service nt I I.ithe Evangelical church Wednesday f evening on account of present conditions, is the announcement made.

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AT RIFLE RANGE ■ Squad Three of Old Battery A Tell of Some of Their (’amp Experiences. STORM TOOK TENT Some of Boys Disappeared Temporarily—Hope to Return to Camp Soon. Catnp Shelby, Miss. December 11,19:7 Special to Daily Democrat. Dear Sirs: As this is a very rainy and gloomy I evening, and we haven't anything elso to do. tile hoys of this stprad will endeavor to try anti let the folks at home know how we are getting along. We just had our supper, which was very light indeed, but nevertheless we cannot kick on the diet they serve us. Novemlier 30th we broke camp and started for lhe rifle range about six miles from camp, with our rifles on | our shoulders and Ed Yahne bringing 'up the rear. We had walked about one hour when Pete Gallogly became so heated from dragging his No. 12 E Es through the sand, that the colonel had to call a halt. After falling out we spent about one hour in tlie shade of a pine tree cooling him off. We were just lining up when a I large bull dog emerged front the brush and attacked Roy Beeler, who was carrying our Battery mascot, a large fluffy raccoon, which caused quite an excitemest among the boys. After the excitement had subsided, we resumed our march to the range, which we reached without further trouble. We pitched our tents of top of a ridge over looking the whole land- ' scape for miles around. The country ' as you see it from our camps is rolling covered with schntbbery and old burnt trees. Nothing grown here. Rabbits ' carry knapsacks on their back to cross I this part of (he country. ! The first day after our arrival we ' did very little of anything. The next day being Sunday, we arose with the ; sun and it seemed to us the sun camo up rather early. After a light Itreak- ■ fast we were armed with rifles, picks, shovels and axes, and started for the 'trenches, expecting to get some more ' experience in firing as we had been taking instructions how- to fire a rifle. Chester Bryan, taking the officers at their word, made himself a shoulder pad which was almost as large as a horse collar, thinking that his toy thirty rifle might displace part of his shoulder. Jesse Lanning and Gilbert Hamilton, being so scared of tht- rifles they lost them within the confines of their tent. When we arrived at the trenches we found that they were to be dug y ‘t ! so we stacked our arms and began digging and the procedure hasen’t ceased yet. The hills of tera firma have been turned wrong side out and resodded : and now you can travel for miles : around and Cannot see out of the > trenches at all. and we have sure seen 1 I oth sides of Mississippi. Some of the I boys are eomi laining of stiff backs ’ and the line grows larger every siok ’’.call, but in general, the health of the 8! l»ys is got.d and no one is sick unless 8 he wants to get out of work. 0 The weather has been ideal for digg--1 lug. being cool and clear until the 5| night of the 7th. when a storm beI I gan raging from the Gulf. It started 9 by slow drizzling rain and a very ' 7 I strong wind, as the night came on. II 'i’lio wind was blowing at almost seventy miles per hour taking a few of lour tents in its path and of course our o tent was one of the lucky ones. As o the tent began to go the boys began to s crawl. Ed Yahne and Elmer Dar- . I wachter deserted the bunch and were not seen until the next day. The rest • of the squad with the exception of the corporal worked until daylight repairing lite tent. Mich Stiles was ill charge of the construction gang of the ': squad. As morning dawned and the I storm ceased, the boys were in good humor again. That was the end of I that eventful night. We did not go to work the next morning as usual on account of the mud and water in the trenches, but instead we stood our regular Satur- | day morning inspection. The next day was Sunday and the chaidin manI aged to find us and gave us a little ■ sermon in the afternoon. (Continued cn Page Four)