Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 5 January 1918 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published (very Evening Except •unday by The Decatur Democrat Company JOHN H. HELLER President, ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE. Secretaryj Subscription Ratae Par Weak, by carrier........ 10 cents Per Tear, by carrier 16 00 Per Month, by mall 16 cents Per Tear, by mall >3.00 Single Coplee 1 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postofflce In Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. The coal dealers hi l»<atur ami other towns of Adams county are making every effort to meet the demands of the times. They are securing all the coal they possibly can and they are doing their level best to distribute it fairly. They deserve due credit lor their patriotic endeavors and their square treatment of the public during these trying days. These are line old winter days after all and ordinarily would meet the approval of every person who likes the middle west. Os course this year its a little different and a good many of us get tired of the everlasting skimp-

ing and saving and planning but some day these times will only be memories and then you will want to be able to tell how you did your all for your country and when it needed your help. Within Iwo weeks the coal famine will have reached it’s climax and there will be those who will be without fuel. Plan now what you can do. Perhaps two or three families by combining their fuel ami living together, can save a half or two-thirds of the fuel and thus get by the next two or three months comfortably. Don’t wait until you are out of coal and fuel and then expect to plan it. Do it now while there is a chance. This is serious and should have your most earnest consideration. A union of the churches during the winter months would mean a great deal just now . It would mean the united effort of the hundreds who belong to the various churches, it would mean a great organization for good. it would mean the saving of much heat and light and a consequent saving of a large amount of coal, that could be otherwise utilized, it would mean a greater number of workers, more enthusiasm and would it seems, be so much better in every way that it ought to be done and quickly. The church should lead in this conservation work. We have tried to make the Daily Democrat a paper you like to read. We have spared no expense to get the news and we feel we have done it. 't has been a hard year of course. This is to be expected during war times. We believe that if given the proper support by our subscribers, we can give you the kind of local daily you want and deserve. We are asking you to renew your subscription now that we may thus be given the advantage of buying our stock in such maner at is necessary in these days, f oil know

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we appreciate your patronage and we want you to continue it. That's whv we are making this culupuign. (.', E. Bell, fuel director for Adams county. Informs us that the coul situation appears the most serious to him now. and with but little If any signs of getting better for several weeks. Orders are not being approved which means that the limit has been reached and that within two weeks, the small supply now on hand and coming iu will have been completely exhausted. This announcement means much ami something must be done. A meeting has been called for the court house at two o'clock Wednesday afternoon, to plan, if possible, for a municipal woo.l yard or to discuss any other plans that may be sugj to relieve the situation. You at least owe your presence at that meeting. <' - ; eration during times like these means much, means everything. If you can help to prevent suffering in some home, you • have proven an unselfish spirit and you have done something worth while. The meeting should result in an or- • ganization that will aid Mr. Bell in J his efforts. Won't you attend this .'meeting? You are needed. It's a call , Ito every good citizen.

{SOCIETY I WEEKLY SOCIAL CALENDAR Monday Research (Tub—Red Cross work followed by election of officers and picnic supper at Dan Sprang home Tuesday. United Brethren Aid Mrs. B. C. Hoagland. Delta Theta Tau Jo Balsma. Friday. Pocahontas Needle (Tub —At Red Men’s Hall. Oh. the days gone by Oh, the days gone by The music of the laughing lip, the luster of the eye; The childish faith in fairies, and Aladdin’s magic ring— The simple, soul-reposing glad belief in everything— When life was like a story, holding neither sob nor sigh, In the golden, golden glory of the days gone by. James Whitcomb Riley. After working at the Red Cross simp Monday afternoon from two to four o'clock, the Research club will go to the home of Mrs. Dan Sprang where they will have their election of officers At six o’clock the husbands of the members will join them for a picnic supper. The most pleasant social affair of Pleasant Mills, and Salem Methodism is the annual New Year's dinner and donation at their pastor's home ,n Pleasant Mills. The people of these two churches responded heartily and a grand old-fashioned chicken dinner with all the accessories was the result; also a bountiful supply of the necessities of life. Tip' la-lies' aid of Pleasant Mills presented the family with a warm comfort; etid all gifts were very much appreciated. The

guests were Rev. Farrar and wife; ('. W. F. Davis and wife; Mrs. Clawson. Wm. Campbell and wife. Jacob Rawley. Kate and Sarah Coverdale. Jesse Steele, and wife. Amy Merriman. O J. Human and wife. R. Shaffer and wife. J I). Winans and wife. Wilson Gulick, wife and daughter. Mary: John Tinkham and family. Ralph. Helen and Mildred Davidson: Georgia Campbell. Oren Merriman. Lorenza Campbell. Marcella Gephart. Harvey Davis and family. Charles Schremk mid, family, Fred Bender family. Leona. Wilma and Viola Dailey; Rhoda Jones and Gladys McMillen. All wished Rev. Conway many more happy New Years. —Contributed.

Miss Doris Erwin entertained eighteen girl friends last evening at a delightful holiday party in compliment to Miss Catherine Leonard, of Roches-' ter; and the Misses Sarah and Leon-' ore Dull, of Willshire. O. -In an adver- 1 tising contest. Miss Leonard won the' prize; and in progressive peanuts J Miss Ireta Beavers won first, and Miss Naomi Mayer, the booby. Dancing and Edison music during the remainder of the evening rounded out a pleas- , Ing entertainment. Refreshments , were dispensed by the Misses Dorothy; Enos and Betty Erwin. I, Miss Della Sellcmcyer entertain, d I the Young Woman s Missionary soIciety of the Reformed church at the 'lliome of her sister. Mrs. Fret! Heuer! last evening. The Heuer home retain-j i "d its pretty holiday decorations and! after the basilic hour, (lie eoniptmy ni Ihfeiietl to the Christmas music on.

the Victrola and enjoyed the refreshments of doughnuts and coffee. Misnj l.eeAulia Vance assisted her aunt in' serving. The I'nlted Brethren latdies' Aid society w ill meet Thursday afternoon | •at two o'clock with Mrs. B. I'. Hoagland on Eightli street. Mrs. Tom Elzey and Mrs. James Hurst will be associate hostesses. The Zion Lutheran ladies’ Aid society of the West Monroe street church met at the parochial school ( house Thursday afternoon and elected officers: President, Mrs. Herman Dierkes: secretary and treasurer. Miss Martha Koldewey. Members of the quilt marking committee are Mrs Herman Heuer, and Mrs. Fred Scheumaim. The time was also spent la quilting and Mrs. Henry Schamerloh who recently moved here from the Bleeke Lutheran parish, was receive I as a new member. The society has arranged to take up Red Cross work and at the next meeting in two weeks at the parsonage, with the Mrs. Rev. Hinz, pajamas will be made. Took Meibers and her guests, Charlotte Jones, of Toledo. O„ will spend the week-end with Miss Ruth Whipple at Portland. Mr. and Mrs. L Meibers and daughter. Tonk. gave a turkey dinner Thursday evening in honor of Bob Meiliers who was at home from Camp Shelby. Hattiesburg. Miss. Other guests were Miss Charlotte Jone:-. I Toledo. O.: Frances Mougey, Fre I i Sehurger. Bernard Parent and Raymend Kohne.

|CO 0 R T The claim of Ellen Jaberg of SSOO against the Anna Gruver estate, which was disallowed by Mat Kirsch, administrator. was docketed to be heard as a case in court. J. T. Merryman is attorney for the claimant. The cause of Edward Koenemann, et al., vs. Dora Koenemann, to set aside the will of Louis Koenemann. was agreeably settled and the case was dismissed The plaintiff is to pay the costs. William Arnold took out letters of administration on the estate of Frank Arnold. His bond was $20,000. REUBEN MAY GIVES WARNING ('amp Pike. Ark.. Jan. 2. 1918 Dear Friends: I know the Daily Democrat will take pleasure in publishing these few lines, which are intended to call attention to some military rules. I read in your paper recently an account of camp life which 1 feel was contrary to rule though the man who wrote it no dount did not so intend it. It is contrary to military rules to write or publish any thing concerning the operation of military camps or any thing that might give information to the prying eyes of an enemy or spy. Every good soldier should try to help keep information from the enemy. 1 call attention to this so that other Decatur boys.

with less experience, may not make the same mistake. 1 want to see the Adams county boys become the best of all the soldiers in the field. Yours. REUBEN MAY. NEW IN CAMP. Rev. F. F. Thornburg Spent Tuesday Night at Camp Shelby. Mrs. F. F. Thornburg received word from her husband, who with three members of the North Indiana conference quartet, left this week to join the fourth at San Antonio, Tex., that they spent Tuesday night at ( amp Shelby. Hatiesburg. Miss., and met the Decatur boys those in 'camp, although many were away on account of the New Year's holiday. ' They will continue their way west ! for a month’s Y. M. (’. A. work in the military camps. IT’S COLD 'iN FRANCE (By J. VV. Pegler, United Press Staff correspondent.) With the American Armies in France. Jan. s—(Specials—(Special to Dailv Democrat ) — American soldiers in France are fast learning how to keep 'warm under conditions as they exist z m the war zone. How a certain big militia contingent marched sixty miles in the teeth of a blizzard “on its nerve and hot stew,'' was one chapter today of the story of how the Sammies are enduring the hardships of the fighting man in the best, poasible fashion. It has been bitter cold, but the cold' snap relaxed today. " CHURCH*OF GOD Sabbath school 9:30 a. m. Preaching, 10:30 a. in. | General service, 7:30 p. m. A cordial invitation is extended fol til. D. M. LYONS, Pastor (

The British Peace Terms (Continued from Page One) —. ■ ■■* I— • I ♦ - ••111 -• I mediate resumption of pence negotiations with Russia, arrived to lind not a single Russian delegate there, according to Vienna dispatches today. Instead the delegation received telegrams asking for transfer of all future negotiations to Stockholm. Washington. Jan 5 (Special to Daily Democrat) State department messages today, carrying Swedish press comment on the Brest Litov ski peace parleurs, confirmed United Press dispatches from Zurich that the Germans returned to Brest Litovsk to resume negotiations with the Rusjsians only to find no Slav delegates there. London. Jan. 5-—(Special to Daily Democrat) Raiding operations were all the fighting activity reported today by Field Marshal Haig. ‘Tn the neighborhood of Hollebeke. he said, "the enemy attempted a raid at night and was repulsed without loss to us. East of Zopnebeke one of our posts was rushed. A few of our men are missing." Petrograd. Jan. 5 (Special to Daily Democrat) — Formal orders against any members of the Russian constituent assembly communicating with Austro-German delegations were issued today. It was said several such attempts had been discovered by the government. The bolshevik! news agency hinted that Prof. Paul N. ~liliukoff and former minister of the interior Tseretelli were seeking to restore burgoise power in Russia. — COAL GRABBERS Indianapolis. Jan. 5 —Starting with the sugar hoarders, and the troubles those greedy and selfish persons caused for food administrators and sot their sugarless neighbors the war has produced some strange phenomena in this country.

With the cold weather, according to reports from various county fuel directors over Indiana, there appeared the coal-grabber, usually the same type or species as the sugar hoarder. The women, as a rule, were the worst offenders in the sugar-hoarding game. The men are most frequently detected in tricky attempts to get more coal than they are entitled to have out of the short stocks available. Here and there the federal officers find traces in the coal grab of the same hysterical, unreasoning greed that snapped up sugar in large lots and hid it away in pantries in such quantities as to cause a nation wide sugar famine, which, without government price-regulation, would have resulted in 30-cent sugar as a by-product of the people's own selfishness. In Marion county, in St. Joseph county, in Dekalb. Ripley. larke. Madison. Wayne, and elsewhere, local fuel directors have taken drastic action to put a summary stop to tricky efforts on the part of a few unpatriotic “hogs” who have sought to get into their coal bins a larger allowance of fuel than could be spared to any single home. It is being pointed out that while coal is short and while may families are in danger of serious suffering due to the lack of fuel, no household which has on hand even a smaller supply of coal can be permitted to continue to put coal away in excess of its real needs. Coal hoarding in one heme means suffering, probable sickness and possible death in many other homes. ESTATE TO FAMILY The will of the late William J. Delhi, of Craigville. was filed for probate today. It was executed December 8, 1917, and names his widow, Rosa M. Deihl. as executor.

It is provided that after settlement of any claims against the estate and the erection of a monument for the graves of Mr. Deih.l and his wife, thqt the residue of the estate, real and personal. shall go to Mrs. Diehl as long as she remains the widow of the decedent. If the income is insufficient for her needs she may sell property as she may see fit. At her death the remainder is to be divided equally among four children. Frank. Roy and Carry Diehl, and Velma Lobenthau. —Bluff ton News. K. OF C°NoTlci Regular meeting Monday. Let there be a good attendance on this the first meeting of the year. G. K. MINISTERIAL Tpc Decatur Ministerial Association, will meet at one-thirty o'clock al the library Monday afternoon. "SCHOOLS OPEN MONDAY The public schools will open Monday morning. January 7. after a two weeks' imilday vacation. HAVE YOD° TRIED THE DEMOCRATb CLASSIFIED SECTION?

HOW YOU ARE CLASSIFIED The last of the questionnaires will be mailed next Wednesday by the local board and in all probability the classifications will be completed within the next two weeks. Those classl tied by the board today are: David N. Stalter. Berne. Class 4. Leo F. Gillig. Decatur. Class 1. Alva R Venin, Decatur. Class 4. Timothy H. Zeser, Decatur. Class 1. Ora L. Lobsiger, Decatur. Class 1. Herman Heuselnian. Berne. Class 1 Herman Koenemanu. Decatur. Class 4. Benjamin W. Teeple, Decatur. Class 4. Dale D. Moses, Decatur. Class 4. Alvin Egly. Decatur. Class 1. Raymond E. Byerly, Magley. Class 1; non-combatant. Martin Krueckeberg. Decatur. Class 4. Grover T. Ray, Monroe. Class 1. Edward F. Melcher, Decatur. Class 4. Carl W. L. Noble, Decatur. Class 4 Russell Sage Bowman, Decatur. Class 4. Ora C. Baker, Decatur. Class 1. Jesse Hurst. Decatur. Class 4. Ray Hendricks, Monroe. Class 4. Charles Hagerty, Pleasant Mills. Class 4. Bart W. Sliraluka. Decatur. Class 4. John W. Hoopengardner. Decatur. Class 4. Henry Selking. Decatur. Class 3. Ira Cook. Monroe. Class 4. Edward Gay. Decatur. Class 4. Robert E. Brown. Decatur. Class 4. Harry C. McCall, Bellefontaine. Class 1. Menno Bieberstine, Berne. Class 4. Albert Aeschliman. Decatur. Class 4. Frank R. Brown, Decatur. Class 4. Oren Courtney, Decatur. Class 4. Frank T. McDowell, Decatur. Class 4. Tobias Sprunger, Berne. Class 4. Clement R. Gottschalk. Berne. Class 1. Benton E. Hortley, Geneva. Class 1 Levi Hahegger. Berne. Class 4. Isaac Colvard, Huntington. Class 4. Edward K. Kolter. Magley. Class 4. Irwin G. Allen, Berne. Class 1. John B. Lange. Decatur. Class 1. Jesse L. Habegger. Berne. Class 1. Cyrus Steiner. Berne. Class 4. Homer Raudenbush. Decatur. Class 4. Joseph A. Colchin. Decatur. Class 1. Menno N. Amstutz. Rain. Neb. Class 5. non-combatant. John E. Zimmerman, Decatur. Class 4.

Clarence H. Daniels. Bobo. Class •». Wm. C. Briggs. Geneva. Class 5. John R. Smitley. Decatur Class 4. Fred J. Adler. Monroe. Class 4. Isador Bernstein. Decatur. Class 4 Wiley Morrison, Decatur, class 4. Roman R. Parent, Decatur. Class -'- Leslie Myers. Monroeville. Class 4. Richard Thieme, Decatur. Class 4. Albert Roth, Decatur. Class 4. Albert D. Smith. Monroe. Class 1. Fred Kauffman. Monroe. Class 4. The following were referred to the district board on account of agricultural or occupational claims; Wilbur H. Shaft. Bluffton; Ora B. Miller, Monroeville: Hubert P. Schmitt, Decatur OBITUARY Violet Waunenia Maxiene, daughter of Harry and Emma Williams, born August 3, 1917. at Decatur. Ind., and departed this life. January 1. 1918. at the age of 4 months and 28 days, after an illness of about 3 weeks during which time she suffered intensely. She goes to join two brothers, one sister who have gone before; leaving behind to mourn there loss, a father.

mother, two sisters. Frances and Jessie; one brother. George; besides aunts and uncles and many other relatives. Our hearts and home are broken Our home is home no more Since death has stolen away our little star Which we highly treasured so. God thought best to call her home And left us here to mourn. The moon and stars are beaming Upon her little grave. Where asleep with Jesus The little one we couldn't save. Heaven now retains our darling. Earth the barren casket keeps. And the sunlight sores no longer Where our darling baby sleeps. BATTLE nTeAR DOUGLAS" fUnlteb Press Service) Douglas, Arizona. Jan. s—(Specials—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Three Mexicans were killed, one wounded and three others were taken captives, when American cavalry men and Mexicans fought a pitched battle on the International boundary east of here yesterday. No Americans were injured. y.iATcu MEETING. The Epworth League of the Methodist church will hold a watch meeting Sunday morning at 6:30.

! Rash hardware Store i Mr N 0. Grove has purchased the Hardware § | stock known as the Dowling & Shuey Go., .nd | I will continue business at the old stand. The new g | firm will be named The Decatur Cash Hardware & S i Implement Co. and will be conducted on a cash ba- g I sis and will give liberal discounts for cash. Come | | in and let us get acquainted. | i DECATUR CASH HARDWARE AND ] j IMPLEMENT COMPANY ...... :ss - :::: *** >::: :::: 4X ' asrcacactauH [ NOTICE | Ail those who deposited with Old Adams H I County Bank their three and one-half per cent Lib- y | erty Bonds to be exchanged for the four per cent | H bonds are requested to call at the bank as early as g | convenient and get their new bonds. H I OLD ADAMS COUNTY BANK | I sKttxmor.: inc ::u:r.in: ; H

MASONIC CALENDER Tuesday evening, 7:30 prompt, regular meeting of Blue lodge. Installation of officers. DAVID E. SMITH. W. M.

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PNEUMONIA Fir»t call a physician. Then begin hot / k* applications of— Kgfocp . Unto Sody Guard in fa;r Horrc ’ • ViaCsvAPOßUfc : Dr. C. V. Connell, the veterinary 1- surgeon, was attending to business of a professional nature, at Willshir?, I. this morning.