Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 303, Decatur, Adams County, 24 December 1917 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Bunday by The Decaiur Democrat Company JOHN H. HELLER President ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Secretary Subacrlptlon Rates Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier 15.00 Per Month, by mail 25 cents Per Year, by mall 13.00 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoilice in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. The Daily Democrat wishes yon and each of you a very Merry Christmas. .May your stocking 'be filled with gifts that bring pleasure to you and the giver and may your hours be filled with the happiness that will shine through the entire year to come. Tomoirrow is ■Christmas and you will be the happier if you make some one else feel glad they are living. It may take only a word or a cheerful message to do this, it may take a dollar or two but whatever it lakes, give it and give it with the spirit that makes it count and you will be— Oh so much happier. It looks like a green Christmas and usually this would be a great disappointment but this season when fuel is scarce, it is some relief to know that many who might otherwise be : suffering are comfortable. The coal pile does not disappear so rapidly this kind of weather as it did during that recent week of zero temperature and that thought ought to be appreciated. When you read the letters from ! camp and from the trenches and from behind the lines, remember those who are writinng home are trying to be as cheerful as they can be. They are not 1 telling you so much of the unpleasant experiences as they are the bright ! spots. It’s not near as easy as you might think and you know that if you I just stop to think about it seriously. It’s so easy to criticize, to sit around and say mean things, to watch , seme person who is trying to do their very best to pick up some little error and make it appear big, but it’s the surest sign of a piker and who wants to be such an animal in this day of heroes when men and women are really sacrificing to help their country in 1 tiie hour of need. Let s lay aside little things and show how big we can really be. Peach talk is growing in Europe and while it does not seem possible that any definite good will come from the parleys now being held, one can never tell for strange things are occuring these days and surprising news is a part of our daily perusals of the dispatches. If peace is possible, it would be welcomed, but it must be a peace which rings with sincerity and which at least will show an effort at world peace forever. The people of the United States are giving to the world the greatest mes-

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p sage ever written in the history which - tolls of the wonderful success of the '* Red Cross drive. Starting out to se- _ sure ten million members it will be f nearer twenty million. The people of t this nation believe in extending the K hand of mercy to friend or foe. The lesson will be heralded throughout every corner of this old world and will be sung about in centuries to come, j We here in Adams county have a right i to feel proud of our share. > . | in:: ;n. isoeiEjY j WEEKLY SOCIAL CALENDAR Wednesday Willing Helpers—Mrs. John Glancy. “I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old familiar carols play, And mild and sweet The words repeat Os peace on earth, good will to men.” Alph Volmer and sister, Mrs. Josephine Rodd. of Toledo, O„ will arrive tonight to spend Christmas with their mother, Mrs. Anna Volmer and the P. J. Mougey family. Miss Anna Volmer came last week. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bishop and son, Paul, of Columbus, 0., arrived to spend Christmas with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Kintz and family. The Kekionga Campfire girls had a lovely Christmas party Friday evening at the home of their guardian, Mrs. Tom Vail on First street. Evergreen, mistletoe and other Christmas greens, made the home pretty, providing the seasonable setting. In a game in which words were made from the letters in “Christmas,” Gretchen Smith won the prize. Gifts were exchanged from a grab-bag. The two course luncheon was pretty and appetizing, including chicken sandwiches, pickles, baked beans, tea, ice cream in the form of green and red Christmas liberty bells, homemade cake and candies Miss Leona Ward, sister of the hostess was a guest, besides the following campfire girls: Mildred Liddy. Mildred Leonard, Margaret Christen, Mary Burk. Dorothy Durkin. Lois Peterson, Gretchen Smith. Arvilla Hendricks and Helen Andrews. Dr. A. L. Hickman of Hammend will come today to join his wife and son in a Christmas visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. V. Steele who will have a family reunion over the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Kuebler, of Detroit, Mich.; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Miller, of Grand Rapids, Mich.; Miss Edith Miller and Ora Baker, of this city, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Miller at supper in Fort Wayne last evening. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Kuebler, of Detroit, Mich.; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Miller, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Miller and Sam Miller, of Fort Wayne are at home to spend Christmas with the Jacob Miller family on Marshall street. Miss Catherine Leonard, or Rochester, who was a guest of Miss Doris Erwin over Sunday, left this morning for Middletown, 0., to spend Christmas. A pretty christening party took place at the C. A. Dugan home Sunday, when their granddaughter, Margaret Buchanan, eight months’ old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Morton. of Chicago, was christened. A dinner party at one o’clock preceded the christening, the Rev. J. C. Hanna, of the Presbyterian church beingin ‘ charge of the christening. The babe

i wore the same dress that her mother ( wore at her christening as a babe Place cards at the dinner bore the name of the babe and the birth date ’ and christening date. Guests were Rev. and Mrs. Hanna, Mrs. Jessie Deam, Miss Mary Deam, Miss Frances Cole. Misses Frances Dugan and Dorothy Dugan, who are al home from their school work, were also members of the circle, Mr. and Mrs. Gustave Yager and Miss Esther Jones have gone to Fort Wayne for a visit with their daughters. The John Christen and E. 8. Christen families will be Christmas guests of their son and brother, Harry Christen and family in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Will Ohler and child went to Fort Wayne for a visit vyith her father. Henry Lee and family. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Lewton, of Ft. Wayne, were guests of the Philip Schieferstein family at dinner today. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Nye, of Fort Wayne, are here to spend Christmas with her mother, Mrs. C. C. Wilder at Monmouth. Mrs. John Glancy will be hostess to the Willing Helpers’ class of the Reformed church Wednesday afternoon. Christmas gifts will be exchanged and officers will be elected. Misses Mary and Effie Patton entertained at six o'clock dinner last evening for Mr. Grossjean and Miss Olive Archer, of Fort Wayne; Miss Schult, Atkins, la.; Misses Fan and Ruth Ham mell, and Will Dreher, or Toledo, O. The Silent Workers’ class of the United Brethren church at their Economy sale Saturday, made nearly S2O. Mr. and Mrs. John Overlay, of Channing, Mich., are here for a vacation visit with his mother, Mrs. Abe Whit right and family. Christmas cantatas rendered at the Methodist and Evangelical church last evening by the choirs, under the direction of W. F. Beery and Hope Hoffman, respectively, were highly appreciated. They told the Christmas story in a most pleasing way. NEW OFFICERS ELECTED Spanish War veterans met Sunday afternoon and elected officers for the ensuing year. They will meet next Sunday afternoon at which time will occur the installation. The new officials are: Commander, O. H. Odell; senior vice commander, Frank Peterson; junior vice commander, Alex W. Tanvas; officer of the day, Charley Omlor; officer of the guard. Jacob Hess; trustee, John D. Anderson; adjutant, E. B. Macy; quartermaster, Ed P. Miller. o ALMON CASE ENLISTS Almon Case, of Chicago, who will be at home for his Christmas vacation, will be the guest of honor at the Robert Case family Christmas reunion. He has enlisted in the aviation corps and will report January 2. Talk Os Peace And War Acts (Continued from Page One) ports to the war department showed today that training is proceeding so well that, when the call of battle comes, the Rainbow division — showing the colors of 26 states— along with the other organizations will give good account of themselves as Americans have always done. The Rainbow boys are well and happy—at least as happy as a set of men could lie whose steps stray far from home in the holiday season. They are well supplied, too. The knick knacks from home have arrived and have been distributed, but even were they not, the Rainbows would not want. “We can get everything here that we would have at home,” he replied. All his information, however, is that the American units are shaping up well. They are enthusuastic and apt. Training in the open and hard and con stant drill are making muscles of steel and sending rich, clean blood through their veins. They have plenty of good, whole some food, the home cooking and with out stint of conservation rules which apply to American homes. (By William Phillip Simins, Uuitec Press staff correspondent.) With the British Armies in France Dec. 24. —(Special to Daily Democrat —While General Allenby’s model i Wise Men of The East are followini the Star of Bethlehem and driving thi Turks out of the land of Jesus. Fieli Marshal Haig’s British bulldogs an holding Jehovah’s line on the west. Behind the front today there weri signs of unusual movements unde way. Dispatches via Holland repor ' Belgium seething with German troops from the Russian front. > This Christmas Eve, therefore, it perhaps the most. important for hu inanity since the. birth of Christ.

‘ A DOLLAR HELFS e e Essays by Two Grade Pupils Ask About Red Cross d n and Answer It, Too 8 __ WITH MUCH WISDOM i t Take Dollar to Red Cross and Receive Smile from a Wounded Soldier. i- . Why Join the Red Cross? t "Join the Red Cross.” “Join the ■ Red Cross.” Conies from every one to every one. Os course, there are always a few who do not believe in ■ any good cause that arises. They • say, “Why should I join the Red ■ Cross’” I am helping in other ways. t “Why, I bought a Liberty Bond!" People who say that, do you know t that you are merely saving that much money, and a four per cent interest comes every year, The Red Cross , only costs one dollar a year to be- . long. Fifty cents of that goes to the buying of surgical dressings and the I other fifty cents goes to the sending of nurses across the waters to help our soldiers "over there.” What oth- - er way could you spend your dollar - better? You read of how the Red > Triangle (a sub-class of the Red , Cross) helps the soldier in the i trenches. They are placed in the trenches that lead from the hospitals in the back to the fighting trenches ’ at the front. The soldiers have to - stay out all day sometimes, with only • biscuits and water. They take enough food to last for a certain length of time, but most always have to stay much longer. In the even- ! ings when they come hack tired and worn out they are refreshed and , strengthened with sandwiches, coffee and other food at the Red Tiangle along the way. Then in the hospitals the soldiers are given the best of care and good entertainment. Your little “dollar” helps in all this. Join now, and get the Red Cross, and white star in your window! LOIS PETERSON, Bth grade. Why Join the Red Cross? The American Red Cross asked for ten million members before 1 Christmas. Adams county’s share must be 4.700. Why not join the Red Cross for the sake of humanity? A dollar to us may seem small, but • your dollar with the others if admin- , istered in the right way, may do wonders in the relief of devastated i Europe. We should unite our dollars to at least make it comfortable for the men who are fighting our battles. As the United States is the richest na--1 tion in the world it would make big ■ prey for the kaiser, but our men in 1 the trenches backed by our millions will make democracy supreme. i You may have reason to be proud if you can pin a Red Cross badge on your coat and feel the satisfac- > tion of having done something toward the relief of thousands of suffering people. Thousands of nurses are now in [ France doing all in their power to ( restore the health of the wounded soldiers. If ten million dollars can be raised before Christmas it will ( mean much joy and relief to these men. Which will you do, take a dollar to ’ the Red Cross and receive a smile from a wounded soldier, or keep the dollar, and have him die on the bat--1 tiefield? 1 ROBERT DANIELS, 7th grade. o a AT CHRISTIAN CHURCH ' Beautiful Cantata to be Given by Children. t The annual Christmas entertainment will be given Christmas night at t the Christian church when the chilli dren will present “playing Santa Claus,” a beautiful cantata. The cana tata tells in song, recitation and dia■l logue, the pretty story of rich chlih dren giving to the poor the joys of Christmas time. The poor children appear and tell their sorrows which i- are later wiped away by the rich h children, who answer the Santa Claus letters which are mailed in a box they provide, the plan having been learned d by a little newsboy. The cantata is a very beautiful one, nicely arranged e ' and will be cleverly presented by the ) children after much practice. A Santa n Claus also appears at the last to help lg the “rich children” carry out their le plans. M „ re STACKS OF MAIL Stacks of mail, piled up on tables *6 I and benches and the floor of the post 3r office at an early hour this morning, !’t * increasing with each train’s arrival, is proclaimed today as the heaviest day before Christmas. is i- Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Sutton left this afternoon for Ft. Wayne.

i TONIGHT'S EVENT . Program for Christmas Entertainment at the Zion Reformed Church. I TO BE HELD TONIGHT ; Everybody Invited and a Glance Will Show You It is Worth While. The following is the Christmas program to be rendered this evening at 7:30 o'clock at the Zion Reformed church by the Sunday school: Prelude—Mrs. Edgar Gerber. Hymn No. 1, “Joy to the World.” Devotional -Rev. Stolte. Hymn No. 25. “Sweeter Than All. Recitation, "A Xmas Dolch. Dialogue, “Shepherds” — Prof. Worthman’s class. Recitation, “December” —Clara Egly Song, “Xmas Bells” Primary Children. Recitation. “Xmas’’—-Walter Miller. Dialogue "Xmas Candles” — Emma Weidler's class. Vocal Solo. “The Manger Story”— Lee Anna Vance. Recitation, “Xmas” —Louis Dolch. Recitation. “Why Merry Bells are Ringing”—Edna Egly. Violin Solo, “Angel Serenade”—Leo Kirsch. Dialogue, “Bethlehem” —Mrs. Edgar Gerber's class. Dialogue, “A Xmas Story”—Helen Kirsch. Lillian Worthman and Naomi Stolte. Song, “Santa Claus’’—Primary children.' Recitation, “Seems To Me” —Wilson Greisinger. Vlctrola selection. Recitation, “An Xmas Wish”—Nedra Glancy. Hymn 176, “Jesus Bids Us Shine.” Recitation, “Bethlehem” — Richard McConnell. Recitation, “The Sweet Story”—lreta Hendricks. Hymn 106, “Joy Bells" Offering. Dialogue, “Bethlehem Star" —Marie Weidler's class. Vocal Solo. “O Rock ‘o’ Bye”—Catherine Weidler. Recitation. “To Santa Claus”—Kenneth Hofstetter. Dialogue. ‘The Xmas Gate”—Letta Wetter's class. Vocal Duet. “The Xmas Bells Are Ringing"—Lillian and Mildred Worthmann. Recitation, “Why Do Bells for Xmas Ring?”—Gerald Schlickmann. Recitation, “Are You Poor Forgiven” —Ida Dolch. Recitation. “A Xmas Stocking”— Thurman Elzey. Dialogue, “Treasurers for Jesus" — Mrs. Jacob’s class. Piano Solo—Lulu Gerber. Reading, “Herod’s Garden" —Marie Weidler. Song—Aldine Annen’s class. Pantomine, “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear” — Matilda Sellemeyer’s class. Hymn No. 48, “Just the Love of Jesus.” Benediction. !COO R T | H :: Nathan May has brought suit against the Clover Leaf railroad for $2,000 damages for personal injuries sustained December 26, 1915, while employed on the section when tele- . phone poles on a handcar rolled on I him. He alleges lie sustained a dis- . located shoulder joint, broken ribs, i injury to spine, head and many other - painful injuries, rendering him cri;- - pled for life and reducing his earn- . ing capacity. Peterson & Moran are f attorneys for the plaintiff. 1 Dale Cowan, of Pleasant Mills, boin November 18, 1887, son of John 1 Cowan, was granted license to niarrv y Bessie Davis, teacher, born December 11, 1897, daughter of Harvey L. Davi.. s The executor of the Charles M. Car il ter will was authorized to renew mort, e gage on real estate. a The cases of Fred and Anora Lint ~ vs. Adams County Creamery Company et al., have been set for trial for Jan nary 10. In the Fleetwood partition case, re s port of sale number two was approved ■t deed ordered, reported and approved I A motion for a change of venw y from the county of the Catherine Eit ing road was sustained. s TRFaFajFin” Oil J CLASSIFIED COLUMN.

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