Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 306, Decatur, Adams County, 28 December 1917 — Page 2

I GET YOUR PICTURE FRAMES FROM MERRY the man who has made art a study. We wilt have a new line of molding—absolutely new—. January g Ist. || Photos by day or night. Pictures good and prices right. MERRY’S STUDIO j Palace Today 2:30 8:13 TODAY KEITH’S SUPREME VAUDEVILLE. Albertina Rasch Assisted by Constantine Kobeloff and Bailet of Eight. (Direct from the Metropolitan Opera House.) Lucille & Cockie •■The Human Birds.” Bissett & Bestry Refined Singing and Dancing. B. LOHMULLER. Presents The Spectacular Singing Novelty , “The Girl in the Moon” Vaudeville’s most pretentious singing Offer ing. Page. Hack & Mack “Wait for the Finish” Current War Events Creighton. Belmont & Creighton “The Mud Town Firemen.” COMING SUNDAY — Keith’s Happy l New Year’s Offering—“ The Girl from Holland” —Happy Jack Gardner & Co. —Marshall Montgomery. ' and the wonder bill of the season. PALACE THEATER, FT. WAYNE. '

B. C. HENRICKS I). C. YOUR CHIROPRACTOR Above Morris 5 & 10c Store. Phone 660 Office and Dwelling, Over 5 and 10c Store Office Houri Ito 5 7to LADY ATTENDANT Decatur. Ind. mangouT & BAKER Corner Monroe & "th Sts. PHONE 215. Corn Flakes :0c; 3 pkgs. 25c Egg-O-Like Powder, pkg 25c Jap Rose Toilet Soap, a bar 10c Pure Buckwheat, 5 Tb. bag 40c Grape Fruit 7c; 4 for 25c Potatoes. 15 tb. peck 40c Cranberries, best, a tb 15c Bulk Peanut Butter, a tb 25c Herschey's Tomato Soup, a can.. 10c Lima or Navy Beans, 2 tbs 35c Oak Leaf Prunes, a tb 15c California Dried Peaches, a tb....15c 3 pkgs. Mince Meat 25 c A-one Brand Nut Margarine, the new spread for bread, a tb 32c Xmas Candy, Nuts and Oranges. V/e pay Cash or Trade for Produce: Eggs. 45c; Butter, 35-42 c. MANGOLD & BAKER FOR YOUR NEW YEAR’S CANDIES AND NUTS * , ♦ KINGS CONFECTIONERY

IN MANY LINES (Indiana Men Are Called to i Help in Various Departments of Service. ION LAND AND SEA I Twenty Thousand Volunteer —Will Boost Home Guard Company. Indianapolis, Dec. 28 Indiana iinu are being called on to enter many di I lerent lines of military activity and service in the big war emergency. The I regular army has ' i from Indiana in the last eight .m-uths some 20.000 linen, volunteers, though state'*-j quota was only 5.400. More lhan 2.000 Hoosier boys hive! gone Io the navy, though the sti. es, quota was only Soo. Indiana has mare ( | than doubled her quota for the I'n ed | Slates Marines, another volunteer force. These land and sea light ns J I the regulars, the navy men and the' marines, have gone into the nation’s military service to fight when and where they are needed. The Indiana national guard. made, up of volunteers, and including a brigade and part of a second brigade in I large part iias left the state and will I continue to organize for duty outside the state and outside the country as needed. The national guard has been federalized and the Second Artillery now forming is being federalized for, foreign service along with the regu- ; lars. The departure of the Indiana na tional guard makes it necessary to I organize the active state militia. ■Three regiments of the active state militia are in i roves.' of organization J and will be equipped and trailed by the state for service within the state only. The organization is to cover the ■state. Motor transport corps are be- ' iug organized to operate with the I state militia in emergencies. I The sedentary militia includes all the men in the state who are more! than Hi or under 45. the force comprising some 250.000 citizens who. by (proclamation of Governor James P. Goodrich, are called on to organize iand train in their communities and hold themselves ready to answer the I emergency summons of the executive for servlet within the state. I naddition to these military forces i the United States government is at work organizing a United States Home Guard force of from .'’.0,000 to 100,000 to take over the task of guarding factories doing war work, protecting munition plants, stores, elevators, transportation lines, bridges, tunnels and the like, thus releasing for front line service the national guard or regular troops heretofore used for this sentinel duty. The United States Home Guards are to be made up of men aged from IS to 21 and from ”1 to 45. those not subject to the selective enlistment law. an dit is believed the organization will be completed without using the draft. This organization is to lie specifically formed to serve within the United States only, ami it is the anmum cd policy to use the United states Home Guard men. so tar as for duty in or mar their ; own home stations. .1 -2 ,» .' PRESIDENT WILSON SIXTY-ONE TODAY. ■! (United Press Service! Washington, Dec. 28 (Special to ; Daily Democrat) This is President : Wilson’s sixty first birthday. He plan-> : nod to spend it quietly at home in pur- : suance of his work as leader of the : world's greatest nation at war. Only, a few birthdays back found him im-' c mersed in the duties of a college professor and director of affairs at Prince . ton university. The wearing experiences he has gone through since as guide- c;f Amer- | tea's destinies in the greatest war in [ history have left him practically tin touched in appearance. His health n much better today than it ever has been. His complexion is ruddy, his eye clear, his step firm. As he left the white house for a drive witli Mrs. I Wilson, he looked every inch a stalwart American c itizen in the prime of life. — equipment to be ready. Washington. I). Dec. 28 —The secretary of war has definitely decided that there- shall lie no second call for men under the selective draft law until the government is prepared to equip the men as tliey enter camp. This means, it was said at the dei«arllHcnt that! the registered nii'ii iu Indiana are not likely to b<- disturbed before March. When a, call is decided on. (lie policy of sendiv.K the men to camp in small increwut . t-ii.. ltd., 5 per cent at a time, will be followed. 1

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ITALIAN EMBASSY IN WAR-TIME (United Press Service) Washington, Dec. 28 (Special To Daily Democrat I Keeping in closest touch with the hard pressed Italian armies protecting Venice- and the motherland the Italian embassy force in Washington is burning a lot of midnight oil these nights. , Count C. Macchi di Cellere. the Italian ambassador, is also high commissioner for America. Witli headquarters at the embassy—l7s9 R street, opposite the Perry Belmont mansion, and close to the late Rear Admiral Sampson's residence— Count Cellere has the job of regulating the imtnem e flow of munitions and food to Italy. His right hand man on military needs is General Emilio Guglielmotti. who as an active campaigner on the Italian Iroht until last spring. Capi tain Laniberto Vannutelli, the naval attache, a former African explorer, is ( with Count Cellere. and has the confidence of Marconi —wireless inventor, in the business of devising anti-sub-marine apparatus.

Big Pre-lnventorv Clothing Sale STARTS SATURDAY, DEC. 29th, 1917 Sf 11.95 All Men’s and Young Men’s WwT AII Men ’ s and ¥oung Men ’ s SUITS SUITS All Men’s and Young Men’s Suits or Overcoats Vk All Men’s and Young Men’s Suits or Overt-cats that formerly sold at $15.00. /W/“ W that formerly sold at $16.50. , . //® ph ? { <7 15.00 All Men’s and Young Men’s ||| / A || Men - S and You ng Men - S SUITS 'JI/ SUITS All Men’; and Yeung Men’s Suits or Overcoats ... . .. that lormerly sold at $20.00. P B tw c V™* S SuiU ° F Ovcrcoa!s '' ® that lormerly sold at $22.50. 21G 1 231 IpG All Men s and Young Men’s All Men’s and Young Men’s All Men’s and Young Men’s All Men’s and Young Men’s ;j SUITS SUITS SUITS SUITS I All Men's and Young Men's Suits Ail Men's and Young Men's Suits All Men's and Young Men's Suits .„ . or Overcoats that lormerly sold at or Overcoats that formerly sold at or Overcoats that f.,,.* . i . . All Men s and Young Men’s Suits $25.00. $27.50. S3O an ' sOl or Overcoats that formerly sold at THE MYERS-DATLEY CO. DECATIIR ' ' ■ INDIANA.

HOG ISLAND SHIP PLANT TO BE LARGEST IN WORLC 1 (United l-re-J Service) Philadelphia. Dec. 28- (Special t< i Daily Democrat) —“Hog island'' i ■ another Panama, according to Meyei ■ Bloomfield, head of the Industrial Ser I vice Bureau of the Emergency Flee Corporation. After an allday m - sp-ection of the site of what is to lx - the largest shipbuilding plan in th- - world. Mr. Bloomfield said: “In the erection of the Hog Islam . plant the government lias assumei I one of the biggest projects ever under - taken. It compares in importance am ■ the amount of work involved in si short a time to the Panama Canal • But the government must have ship- . and it expects to spend 11.000,000.00' • this year in order to get them." I -o A LITTLE WANT Al NOW AND THEN, WILI I ALWAYS HELP THF MOST PROSPEROUS Ol > MEN.

t oMMI-sloM'H*’ 41.1.0 V 4XCIW—ni'.CRMBRH TERM, 1»1T. W i. B Burford. Co. revenue .I..hn Mo»mc. Au<) -xp. - . .ns’ T--I. Co.. C<>. r-venu-' Burford by And. exp. .... H. Klnth-. Trw». exp. l«. 0« Remington T-pewi Iter t ...r,lei's expense IM Green, -lire priwneis >».-» Vum e X- Ite. slierllT s exp ■ ■•;• Ihirford Io Democrat. do IM Green, returning prlaonem . l-.i, 018 „?■ “ <>ixnl Harruff. ditches “ I; 1,. IcHssluoe. do le.oo Is.atur Light A Power I hint, < uunt.v revenue c ■ • Knobler Cp . -I-- -J- ’ S IP Whitman, surveyor exp. xou .1 G. Adler, do !■: S. Christen. Co. Supt. . 1 ..00 )■; S. Christen. -Io I traveling expenses Win. Frailer, Co. assessor H'.JJO 11.>, expense •■«“ I,! 11. 11. Chuk. Cor. Inquest .1. S. Heirs, ‘l<> - ,11 ill Andrew*. .iolm VV. Burton, do -• II 11 \ »>v I »aiiielh. do Ralph Ainrlne, do U<»o \ P Ball, do S, H. Sc hroll. do .lolin <’lnrk. do -aw A L Zehnder, do -•-» <• L .Melhorn. d«» s -.‘ . 1 it .di Yolx. do -• |»i. J. U. (Siamlstaft, county , health vomnilsxioner -Ig.Oa B ■ ford, by Pemovrat. Hlonerx* expense H. >u> H Heller. <’o Utv. I; 1;. M* ! ■ I.Att-1 • ‘fti- *•- ’"•I WanhlnMrton Twjl J I !< uebler Co., do »•** 1 E E. Guss, d*» IE 1., Carroll ek Son 3.00 JN-opien & C.erke, d»» J. 50 Calk w & Kohne, du ij. M Miller. d«> C. H. Klxev. do ; »0 done.* A: Jones, do. M“i»r«w Twp la.oo 1.. < $ | S- '■ : k ’1“ .1. A L&BK. do. Wabash Twp. €.43 Armstrong Connor, do 25.10 j P. .1 Hvlantl. Hep. court house -r J ' H ' ’ • ’ ' I I». Stults, euslodiau SO.OO llenr.x Stevens, labor ct. house 11.35 Sain Butler, do 3.00 D iHai -Iwart- Co.. Ct < rep | P. J. Hyland, do 2170 J>e»atur Foundry. Furnace and I Machine Co., do 45.00 .“ 1.. I>. Ja< qI». jan Ml - l "“? iP. I. Hviand, rep. jail 5-4“ i- s Peter Kirsch, do I Martin Laughlin, Ibr. Co. farm 350.00 H; M A. L«iughlin. do 45.00 ’ Albert Hue.seinian. do 52.00 1 , Letti« !leuaelmah, do 4S.M Orilla Moesvhberger. do 41.00 ■ Henry Schlegel, do -?•?? n- Julius Behnier, do 3.75 I Thos. Bowling, do 11.25 Holthouse l»rug Co., do 10.45 » e , Indiana Heforniatory, inaintenancc <ounty farm €2.60 ISa in Butler, do €2.90 • P J. Hyland, do 39.73 Hecatur Foundry. Furnace and s .i Machine C<k. do 13.50 1 Peter Kirsch, do .p-’T'reas. <f State, state institns 83.03 Lewis Fruehfe. Bd. Guardians 0.00 id Decatur Herald Co., legal advt. 23.04 !»< ni( i <tt ‘ . do 17 71 Jim A. Hendricks, office sup- | 1 plies, road superintendent 5.00 C. H. Lammiinan. return of tines 1.20 is. Fisher Ar Butler. Beavers brdg. 400.00 flattie Obenaper, office rent 30.00 Jim A. Hemiricks. Tpk. Supt. 120.00 | Fred Ostermeyer. turnpike 753.51 Dtto Buerger, do 317.50 i H. F. Reinking, do 80.90 [A I. D Winans, du 226.70 L* J ,\ Hower, do 18 4..'•*5 (IJ. C. Augsburger. do 228.06 j ] Jacob Mitch, de 84.90 _ \. P. Duer, do 1701.5 s Pj Dan Augsburger. do 767?'- 1 Dennis Yoder, do 699.10 | L 1 Ott Ray. do 164.12 i * ! Jacob Stuber, do 372.39 r Davul Gerber. John Durr road.. 650.00 J * : ■- h ..... .■ ■.■u.i 6Q.Ou -

Before you buy, call and hear “The Highest Class Talking Machine in the W orld” Because the only jury which heard and tested all of the phonographs at the Panama Pacific International Exposition, recommended that the Sonora be i given a marking for tone qual-|| ity higher than that given to M illjlF an) other phonograph or talk- j i| ing machine. JIS lIHn Because it has exclusive -1 tgkCT}■ Imw patented features of remark- yU maJJj iHa able superiority. ' IS lIH Because it will be a pleasure MTHUn and a proud possession for bR.QIO I Inj' s 1 MbIBM you and yours for years. hjji a J uJF Because it is recognized as be- ft MR B ing the finest phonograph 1 I* manufactured today- twl |r Ij SSO $55 S6O $75 SIOO $135 19 > $l5O $175 S2OO $250 $375 SIOOO Z1 I Call and hear the Sonora and • 1 you will be convinced that it is tt the phonograph you want. Smith, Yager & Falk Sonora is licensed and operates under BASIC PATENTS of the phonograph industry. I The Highest Class Talking Machine in the World.

Phil D. Macklin, do 95.00 Finley Striker Lehman road 800.00 Silas Hitle. Minger road 70 90 L. O. Bears, ik> 600.00 A. Biberstein. Steiner road 665.t»0 A. W. A rmant Ko ut. Sc h roll roaai ,?.00 \Vm. Itoppert. ’roads 57.00 Orvai Harruff. do 13.07 Robert Schwartz, do 9.00 D. M. Hensley, jury com. 30.00 Eugene Lindsey, do ... 30.00 Edwin Heller, grand jury 31.20 Albert I'oivhin. do 30.20 Fred Steigmeyer, do 30.7'0 <’. (’. Beer, do 31.10 Isaac Teeple. do 4.50 Eli Engle, do 30.70 Win. Christen, do 30.20 Clark J. Lutz, special judge 5.00 Berne Artificial Stone Co.. Beer bl i<lg'' . 838.00 Do. Spuller bridge 3000.00 | Do. Bixler bridge 335.80 . J. ’l’. Gilllg. Keifer bridge . 675.00 |L. O. Bears, Shroll road . 949.80 jEd Green, returning fugitives.. 3.30 . Lawyers Co-operative Pub. Co., law books 40.00

1 1 A card from Donald Patterson, a '; member of battery A, Camp Shelby, J wishes us a Merry Christmas ami a i Happy New Year. Same to you Don • and to ail ihe boys.

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