Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 1 January 1918 — Page 1

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YA Till" Hrl' effort ' to '"’selfish sacrifice, and I HI" Mkßn’erlng, too. to the grim determin ■ V I lit I LHion to go er, to the goal, which in HL Hi 11 ■"Although there are many sacriUl vLiUH' ps ahead, I have no doubt of the ■itcoine. The American people, ■hen they have work to do, never Governor Goo® l ' untu it is accomplished. The that we are right and that You With mast win will count heavily In the -Boi and will count for victory. JYieSSajie lß‘[,et USi then. Start the New Year Bith the conscientiousness that our QTARTIWr W U!ie is an<l that we are oIAKIIINU K make it win. if we do this there ■-ed be no fear as to the future. 4 . n B “JAMES P. GOODRICH. ASKS Co-Operaß "Governor of Indiana.” olution Thaß “fat~and~sassy." Do Individl-A soldier writes from Camp Shelby Mr. and Mrs. Aaron DeVinney: Camp Shelby, Dec. 25. 1917. Indianapolis. Ind.^L ar Folks: Governor Well, how jg everybody out there? of Indiana today *H 9U PP° se 'hat you are all sitting inspiring message:® ound the s,ove - making a very hot “Nearly a year hB' e ' whkh 1 suppose that it is quite B'hl out there. imperial German i« Wen , it is not c()ld here at the ficially declaring i«- egent . but we had Quite a ud regarding the ’"“''’■hristmas dtiy. for it sure did rain taro and morri i ng> b ut it was some pretty States to enter t after all. We sure did have the year which ha® inle Christmas dinner today. We been acconiplisheiB ld eats o f a [| hinds, and besides all there is still a greß a t, we had some pretty Christmas done before the waB ee also. “Thousands of yB [ am feeling just fine at the prespart of the United getting fat and sassy. I receivto the colors and ®d that bo* which you people sent awaiting the call Bte and I sure do thank you very their country. Tbßtueh for it. I will have to quit for have turned over Biis time. billion to the gB Wishing you folks all a Happy New prosecution of tßear. I remain, as ever, pared to turn » have generously B DO WLING~Ts COMMISSIONER, millions, to the !(■ continue to see tlB Mayor-elect Charles W. Yager has front do not sufl'Bfiered the position of street comcomforts to which® 1 j Ss j oner f or the c j t y f 0 Thomas S. "Since it is P lail ß) OW ij n g and the latter has accepted the countiy have ■ position. He will begin his servduty and are ’ Jalluary 7th when the new o fflgrowing determ nn « jals take O fh ee The place was first through to final '’■ ffered to Charles C. Ernst, but the we begin the -"'* ew Better, on account of other plans, delation that we no t to accept same. Mr. Dowour individual s, ’« ng hgg had conS j ( ieral>le experience our means and ah® at bls k j m « or »he position and he of our country. K.j|| g j Ve his very best efforts to the “This resoluti<mB (1y alld will worb f Or the best infied by the calm ® erf > sts of every taxpayer. He is dereasons for o f the co-operation of every ed the great war ßj t j ze n o f Decatur. “We did not ]>■ filet for revenge, ■ COURT HOUSE NEWS, or because of ra« I .. reeman L Jones qualified as adcontrary we re ’*j inistr ator of the estate of Samuel tect American It rights, and now luue!, > * b T drawn we do not Licensed to marry: Clarence Mitchit again until th< born April 2i 1897, son of William for the world-wit tsj ’ t( , hell and O ra Durbin, born Notaught that might rember 2 g 1893, daughter of A. O. mately on the st ~ American rights 1 ilization cannot I R ea i estate transfers: Rachel Glenpunity. When t j enn j n g to Robert Glendenninng, 75 come generally 1 lcreg o f Hartford township, quit claim ger of future wt leed $4500; A i va M. Glendenning to tions will be gre Robert Glendenning, 75 acres of Hartman power an townshl p, $1800: U. S. patent treaties between Jped to A!ex Kleming , 40 acres of Root longer be recogn , . tions. to ' vn 2 hip - “Worthy acco NEW YEAR'S IS HERE The - - purposes. It is scheduled time this morning. e our aims in the o( . caß j on while not as lively as in formgle are of the h was nlarke <i by the ringing gain the inspira > and tbe blowing of whistles, tion necessary f , a memorable because we are The past year has been timatelywin. E be ev”" more so. of the purity of feeling that be o( great sufficient to ac The year as it unfolds dJ crisis like the r interest indeed. Follow u<» reading sciousness must the Daily Democrat.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, January 1, 1918.

WAR TIME PORK ' And Other Matters of Supreme Interest Will be Theme OF THE INSTITUTE Farmers’ Institute Will he Held at Monroe Thursday and Friday. The program for the Monroe Farmers' institute to be held at the Monroe high school building, Thursday and Friday, Januaiy 3 and 4, is given herewith. No admission will be charged. All are cordially invited. The program: Thursday Evening—7:3o. Song, America —Audience. Praper—Rev. Phillips.

Song—M,onroe School. Address —Judge W. H. Eichhorn. Song—Monroe High School. Friday Morning—9:oo. Song—Monroe School. Prayer—Rev. Bowse. “Soil Efficiency”—W. H. Senour. Music—Frances Kessler. i Appointment of Committees. “War Time Pork Production”— County Agent M. H. Overton. “The Country Girl and Her Moth- , er"—Mrs. Chas. W. Sewell. Friday Afternoon—l:3o. Song, Star Spangled Banner—Monroe School. Report of Committees. Music —Thomas Sisters. "The Relation of Dairy Farming to : Permanent Agriculture”—W. H. Senour. Reading Mrs. James Kessler. “The Chick from First ’Till Last” —Mrs. Chas. W. Sewell. z Friday Evening—7:3o. Music —Monroe Orchestra. Song—Ada Lammiman. “Mutually Helpful"—W. H. Senour. "Keeping Up With Father and the , Boys—Mrs. Chas. W. Sewell. Quartet —Monroe High School Girls. Music—Monroe Orchestra. NEW SETTEES HERE. Four new twelve-foot settees, in the brown, mission finish, arrived . yesterday afternoon and were in- ( stalled in the new interurban station. THEHOOVER MENU Farmers’ Institutes Offer Encouragement to the I Corn Pone Menu. I HERE IN INDIANA Hoosier Girls Are Also Winning Prizes for the Best Knitting. Indianapolis, Ind.. Jan. I—Farmers’ institutes are beginning to offer encouragement to the corn pone menu jn Indiana. This movement started in Parke county, at Portland Mills, at the suggestion of Miss Marion Me- : Millen, demonstration agent, is the ; outgrowth of the “Hoover” menu idea advanced by the national and state : food administrations. Prizes for the best darns and patches also are being won by Hoosier girls at the institutes. Miss McMillen, on receiving the j “Hoover menu” suggestions from Dr. ■ Harry E. Barnard, federal food ad- | ministrator for Indiana, got in touch with the farmers’ institutes of Parke I county and urged them to offer prizes for the best corn pone and for Red Cross work an dottier war materials As a result of Miss McMillen’s cooperation with the Portland Mills show and domestic exhibit in connection with the farmers’ institute held i a few days ago, prizes were offered Ifor the best corn pone, for the best loaf of rye bread, for the best loaf [of corn and wheat bread and for the best baked soy bean. Prizes also were offered for the best knit Red Cross sweater and for the best Red Cross pajamas. For girls sixteen or under, prizes were offered for the best rolled oats cookies, for the best pumpkin pie, tie best darn on hose and the best patch on checked material. Girls ten and under got in on the prizes also with the I

best hnlf dozen Rod Cross handkerchiefs and the best corn bread. Miss McMillen acting ns judge. Mrs. Hazel Moore and Mrs. Cora Clodfelter acted on the domestic science committee for tho exhibit and institute. J. D. Harbison was fn charge of the corn show in connection with the institute. Hortense Tapp Moore, who has been in the field for the women’s section of the defense council, reports the come pone Idea to be spreading. SHIPS DUROC JERSEYS C. C. Miller, of east of the city, well known breeder and shipper of Durov Jersey hogs, shipped three fine specimens to three point* in Illinois this morning . A LIBERTY TAX Task of Gathering Income Tax Begins Tomorrow— Report By March 1.

PAY BY JUNE 15TH Rate for Married Men Two Per Cent on Amount of ! Income Over $2,000. Washington, Jan. I—The1 —The great task of gathering income tax and excess profits returns starts with the new year. Every unmarried person earning more than SI,OOO during the last year and every married person or head of a family who made more than $2,000 must file a report with the internal revenue collector of his district some time before March 1. He will be notified before June 1 of the tax due. and payment will be due by June 15. Tbe government expects to receive $1,201,000,000 from income taxes before July 1, including $666,000,000 from individuals and $535,000,000 from corporations. This is more than onethird of the $3,400,000,000 estimated receipts under the war revenue act passed by congress at the last session It is estimated that about 7,000.000 persons will pay income taxes as against less than 500,000 last year. From excess profits taxes, the government expects to realize about $1,220,000.000 before July 1.. The rate of tax for a married man or the head of a family is 2 per cent, on the amount of his net income exceeding $2,000, but less than $4,000 and 4 per cent in the amount of his net income above $4,000. but less than $5,000. An unmaried person not the head of a family will pay 2 per cent on the amount of net income above SI,OOO but less than $3,000. and 4 per cent on the net income above $3,000 but less than $5,000 An extra levy, or surtax, in addition to the normal tax, is imposed on incomes above $5,000. so that the amount of income between $5,000 and $7,500 is subject to a total Income tax. including Doth normal and extra, of 5 per cent.; and between $7,500 and SIO,OOO, 6 per cent. The surtax further increases with higher incomes, so that amounts of $1,000,000 are taxable at 65 per cent., with 1 per cent, additional so reach half-million up to $2,000,000. All incomes over the latter amount are taxable at 67 per cent. Typical income tax levies on heads of families are as follows: Income of $2,500. tax is $10; income of $3,000. tax is S2O; income of $3,500, tax is S3O; income of $4,000. tax is S4O; income of $4,500. tax is 60; income of $5,000, tax is SBO. Unmarried persons would pay in this way: Income of $1,500, tax is $10; income of $2,000. tax is S2O; income of $2,500, tax is 36; income of $3,000. tax is S4O; income of $3,500, tax Is S6O; income of $4,000, tax is $80; income of $4,500. tax is $100; income of $5,000. tax is $l2O. Individuals making more than $6,000 during the year also are subject to an 8 per cent tax on their income above that amount, independent of the regular income taxes. I This 8 per cent levy is imposed on ' individuals with no capital, or with I only nominal capital, such as profes- ’ sional men ’with money invested in ,! books, dentists, physicians’ instruI ments, or other equipment. .' Taxes may be paid in four install- ■ ments between now and June 15, if • this arrangement is preferred, but the . treasury will open a determined campaign soon to encourage persons tc pay their tax in full immediately, and i receive interest on the advance pay- • ment. > (Continued on Page Two)

STATE CORN SHOW Will be Held in Connection With Fanners’ Short Course at Purdue JANUARY 14TH TO 18TH Indiana Corn Growers’ Ascociation Has Arranged Big Program. Lafayette, Ind., Jan I—One of the big features of the farmers’ short course at Purdue university this year wil be the thirteenth annual state show of the Indiana Corn Growers' association, which will last throughout the course, January 14 to 18, inclusive. An exceptionally strong program has been prepared and it is expected to attract many corn growers.

. The meeting will be opened at 10:15 o’clock the morning of January 16. with an address by J. N. Me-1 Mahan, of Liberty. Ind., president of the association. H. L. Frost, of Connersville. lawyer-farmer, then will speak on “Farm Drainage," to which he has been giving considerable attention on his own land. Prof. P. C. Tass, of lowa State College, will close the morning meeting with an address on “How to Meet the Present Seed Corn Situation.” The afternoon session of the corn men will be held with the live stock breeders', state dairy and shee breeders' associations. Ralph W. Moss of Center Point, former representative in congress from the Fifth Indiana district, will open the afternoon program with an address on “Agricultural Problems.” The War and the Farmer” then will be the subject discussed by President H. J. Waters. Kansas Agricultural College, Manhattan. Kans. G. L. Mclntosh, president of Wabash College, Crawfordsville, will close the program with an address on “Sources of Farm Labor.” The evening session will be devoted to an entertainment for the members. Unusual interest is attached to the corn growers' gathering and the show this year because of the seriousness of the seed corn situation. Many farmers will come for their first time and all who have attended previous meetings are expected to come back. annuaT report Jim A. Hendricks, Superintendent of Roads for Adams County, Reports TO COUNTY AUDITOR Shows Comfortable Balance on Hand—Asks Co-oper-ation on Roads. Jim A. Hendricks has filed his re-| port for the year with the county auditor, showing a balance on hands of over nine thousand dollars. The report filed this morning follows: Annual report of receipts and disbursements, as follows: Received from auto licenses, Received from taxation 34.730.16 Received from contractors for rolling, and on hand January Ist, 1917 6,305.47 I Total $54,189.46 1 Disbursements as follows: ■ Total paid out for hand ’ labor $ 4,133.b0 Total paid our for teams.. 9,748.88; 1 Total paid out for material 24.831.91 Total paid out for assistant superintendents and superintendent, including their teams 6,205.73 i 1 Total disbursements .... $44,919.97 A Balance —This amount is on hand [. to start off the new year’s work s!>,269.49. |. We think we have held up the stands srd by making our material exceed e the labor, and teams. Last year tho 1- material exceeded the labor and teams o over four thousand dollars, and this d year with all the advance in prices '• of labor and team work we have raised it to exceed the labor and teams to over six thousand dollars, which we

fi think speaks well for all assistants | and the organization. We are proud of it. and think we have fought :i I good fight, and we wish to thank ; everybody for their assistance in the past year in way of helping to keep up the roads, by obeying the law as to heavy loads during wet and freezing and thawing weather, and we trust they will continue to do so In the future. 11 Please don’t hold us up on prices just because there is a crisis. The ; more we have to pay out the more you will have to pay in, when apying taxes. Remember we have about eighteen hundred autos in the county besides the through travel and trucks and the railroad freight is now coming over our roads instead of on the rails and it means much to the repair system, on six hundred miles of ■ j road and over three hundred and fifty i bridges. On these miles also under l our control for repair, we forget our differences and work together, as this county work should interest all of us as it’s a matter of dollars and cents to all. and no one has time to work for nothing. JIM A. HENDRICKS, Supt.

BACK FRANCE Lieutenant Harry J. Strohm Who Fought at Vimy Ridge. VISITS IN CRAIGVILLE Expects to Go Back to France—Suffers Shell Shock. Sergeant Henry J. Strahm, of the Canadian Medical Corps, arrived in Bluffton Sunday morning for a short visit with his friends here and his parents at Craigville. Mr. Strohm is not yet entirely recovered from the effects of the shell shock which he suffered at Vimy Ridge but he expects to go overseas again soon as a member of the medical corps. He states that after he arrives in England that he will he able to effect his transfer to the field artillery. Since his visit here last summer while he was at a convalescent hospital at London. Ontario. Mr. Strohm has been working in the Canadian recruiting and conscription service in which a number of medical officers are needed. Mr. Strohm said that his observation had been that the conscription in Canada is as yet only partially successful, owing to the large number of exemptions granted by the local boards. Sergeant Strohm's injury shows Itself at times in the weakness of one leg which is aggravated, he thinks, by the action of the puttees which are a part of the regulation uniform in the Dominion and which act to shut off the flow of the blood to the member. He expects to make a complete recovery eventually, however. — Bluffton ' News.

HOW YOU ARE CLASSIFIED |

I The local military board and Chief Clerk E. B. Adams were observing New Year's today and therefore were not in session. They will convene tomorrow and then be in continued session until the job of classifying the fifteen hundred and fifty men is completed. Those classified by the board yesterday afternoon are: Wm. P. Habegger, Berne. Class 1. Non-combatant. Claude M. Foreman. Berne. Class 1 Benj. JF. Shirk, Monroe. Class 4. Archie W. Foley. Decatur. Class 4. Chas. W. Studler, Geneva. Class 4. Martin Conrad, Decatur. Class 4. August Bloomberg. Deceat ur. Class

<• Sherman Kunkle, Decatur. Class 4.', Martin L. Hoffman, Monroe. Class 4 Cecil Harvey, Decatur. Class 4. Noah Egley, Decatur. Class 4. ; Chas. A. Weber, Decatur. Class 1. Chas. L. Bevington, Berne. Class 4 ' Cliffton. H. Sprunger, Berne (’lass I 1. Non-combatant. Homer Steiner, Berne. Class 4. Robert A. Jaebker. Preble. Class 1. Robert W. Marboch, Decatur. Class 1:4. a Rolin O. Baker, ecatur. Class 4. s Raymond T. Eyanson, Decatur, s Class 4. s Geo. Winfield Krick. Decatur. Class ;■ 4. 0 Clarence Hilyard, Decatur. Class 4. b Joll Molldr, Monroe. Class 4. Non-;

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WOMAN’S WORK In War Time—Let Her Keep Those New Year Resolutions AND SHE MAY HELP Win the War—Devote More Time to Conservation. Every woman in the country shouhl resolve to save money to buy Liberty bonds, to do more knitting and to provide for the comfort of our soldiers: and above all. to watch over the food supply in her own kitchen. The year 1918 is bound to bring still further privation to the women of Europe. They are already economizing to the utmost in order to ward off

hunger from the old and sick and to , teed the little children. , Millions of housewives are pow members of the United States Food Administration. They should resolve I with the new year to devote still more time and thought to saving and substituting so that our food supply may not only cover our own needs but may be shared with the allies. The present need is urgent and it is going to be even more pressing in each month to come. Therefore let every loyal American housewife us she enters her kitchen each day adopt the following New Year resolutions: “I solemnly resolve: “To let no food of any kind go to waste. “To set one day in every week and one meal in every day when no wheat fleur shall be used in any manner, shape or form. “To set one day in every week, and one meal in every day when no meat shall be cooked or served. “To set one day in every week when rtn pork is served or eaten. “To eat and serve fowl and poultry as often as possible in place of other meat. "To use butter only at table; to cook with oil or drippings and to waste no fat of any kind. “To use corn and fruit syrup, molasses and sorghum syrups and honey as often as possible instead of sugar. "To use all dairy products as economically as possible." To make and keep these resolutions for the New Year will help to win tlie war. SUCCEEDS M. M. DUNBAR Hartford City. Ind., Dec. 31 —A. L. Frantz, superintendent of the Cass county schools, has been chosen by the city school board as superintendent of the Hartford City schools, to succeed M. M. Dunbar, who resigned to become a federal income tax collector. Mr. Frantz will assume his duties Monday. There were sixteen | applicants for the place.

i combatant. ;; Morton Bulkhead. Lagrange. Class ‘ 4. Harry Henstand. Geneva. Class 4. -I Hgrshei E. Reynolds. Decatur, s Class 1. •j Guy M. Watts, Linn Grove. Clasts 4 1 Jesse R. Miller. Geneva. Class «, Armon Habegger, Geneva. Class 4. ■ Non-combatant. Felix W. Holthouse. Decatur. Class 1 4. Chas. M. Lindsey, Geneva. Class 4. '• Geo. Bergman, Geneva. Class 4. 1 Walter J. Gotseh. Decatur. Class 4. ■ Clarence C. Shepherd. Geneva, s . Class 1.

Edward P. Warren, Decatur. Class 4. Wm. T. Rupert. Decatur. Class 4. Realis M. Gilbert. Decatur. Class 4 The following were referred to tho district board because of occupational or agricultural claims: Albert Stucky. Geneva, non-combat-ant: Hugh B. Runyon, Geneva; trwin R.Lindsey, Geneva; Franklin C. Chronister, Decatur; Fred Fuhrer, Geneva; John H. Habegger, Monfoe; Wm. B. Hinderlang. Decatur; Leland McCullum, Powder River. Wyo.; Edwin Fred Boese, Decatur; Dallas Goldner, Decatur; James M. Westveld. Decatur; Henry L. Getting, Decatur; Fred Wm. Zimmerman. Magley; Clifton E. Strickler. Berne; Wilson F. ! Zeser, Decatur. ■mmmbohhL JRM