Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 59, Decatur, Adams County, 9 March 1918 — Page 3

BEAUTIFUL COCO BROWN BOOTS FDR GIRLS VV e are selling a lot of those pretty Coco Brown English Walking Shoes for girls. The uppers are oi smooth, shiny skin, the kind that take a polish like glass. Priced reasonably, tbo. $6.50 Charlie Voglewede SELLS ’EM IN DECATUR

| WEATHER FORECAST! BBB3r:x»:3K‘4r a:: u:::ae:: Rain south, rain or snow north portion tonight, coyer: Sunday fair, clearing in north portion; much colder Strong south winds shifting to northwest by Sunday morning. J. J. Mayer, of Monroe, was here today on business. Miss Gertrude Kinzie was a Fort Wayne visitor today. Miss Ruth Parrish went to Fori' Wayne this morning on business. » E. T. Hacker, of Berne, was here on business today and left for Bluffton later in the day. Miss Fanny Cowan and Mrs. Brice McMillen went to Dixon, 0., yesterday for a visit over Sunday with relatives. Miss Ella Yoder who has ' eeu employed at Linn Grove changed cars here today enroute to her home at Leo to visit. Mrs. W. S. Kuebler will leave M< nday for Cleveland. 0., where she will visit a week with her sister. Mrs. Julius Spies. Mrs. E. B. Workinger and children. Richard and Helen, went to Ft. Wayne today noon for a visit witli her moi tier, Mrs. P. J Frisinger. Rev. Mills of the Evangelical church has an almost-human Bantam hen. The reverend has trained “Banty” to sing several popular songs, which are almost, distinguishable. Mrs. F. M. Schirmeyer arrived yesterday afternoon from a several weeks’ stay in St. Petersburg and Jacksonville, Fla . and a week's stay nt Nashville, Tenn., enroute home, where she visited with her brother. Hugh Rout, and her mother. Mrs. Lucy Rout.

The Home of Quality Groceries A good stock of goods bought right can be sold right. Compare our prices with those of a year ago. Buy them. Red Seal Lye, can 10c Fancy Rice, in 2*4 lb. pkgs.2sc Fancy Cod Fish, in 1 lb. bricks2oc 5 lb. pkg. Argo Starch 30c Van Camp’s Red Kidney Beans, can 12Vic Bright Tender Bulk Kraut, ibloc: 3 for 25c Campfire jMarshmal- Peanut Butter, lb2sc , , Red Beans, can 10c lows, pkg Dessert Peaches, can.. 20c Potted Meats, can .... 5c Strawberries, can .... 15c Seeded Raisins, pkg... 10c Cider Vinegar, can ...,0c Extra fancy Clean Onion Sets, White or lellow; Garden and Flower Seeds. M. E. HOWER We pay cash or trade for produce. Eggs, 28c. Butter, 30c to 40c. North of G. R. & I. Depot ’Phone 108 n I K Ask for the < WHITE STAG"j t CIGAR | A clean, tasty, cool smoke j # Made in sizes to suit the smoker. Ask your I h dealer for your favorite size. g ■ Londres Extra, Londres Grande (Broad | | Leaf wrapper), Puritano, Little Opera and Pana- £ S tellas, all good. ? Ht.au fPI !*>!. f n IRI p»n lit pt Ft »yi g

Mrs. T. M. Gallogiy went to Fort Wayne to visit over Sunday. Misses Celia and Agnes Neswald went to Fort Wayne for the afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hobrock went to Fort Wayne to spend Sunday with relatives. Miss Agnes Sellemeyer returned from the basket ball tournament at Hartford City. Mrs. John Dickerson went to Monroe this afternoon to visit over Sunday with relatives. Mrs. Ollie Heller and daughter, Mildred, went to Berne to spend Sunday with relatives] Clifton Duer is home on a furlough visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Duer of Monroe. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Hakey and daughter, Pauline, visited in Fort Wayne this afternoon. Miss Rose Buuck returned to Fort Wayne where she is working. She visited at her home near Preble. Mrs. Fred Smith called on her father. C. J. Lutz at the hospital in Fort Wayne. He continues to improve. Johnny Aber and cousin. Helen Wilhelm. went to Fort Wayne to spend Sunday with the Leo Wilhelm family. W. A. Kuebler and daughter, Mainella. will return tomorrow from a week's visit with Father Kuebler at Shelby, O. On Monday, Marcella, will return to her school work at the academy of the Sacred Heart, Fort Wayne. What's become o’ th’ ole grouch that didn’ take no newspaper an' jest kiiowed what he knowed? Ever’ once in a while some feller gits so rich that he says he'd like t’ lie poor agin an’ livin' up stairs over a vacant storeroom.— Abe Martin in Indianapolis News. •>

THEY DISAGREE Committee on Public Information and War Department is Deadlocked. ON GIVING OUT NEWS Os Casualties Over There —Print Names of Killed Only. (United Press Service) (By Carl D. Groat, United Press staff correspondent.) Washington, March 9—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Under the military mans plea of ’'information to the enemy” the nation today is barred from news as to casualties abroad, other that: "John Smith,” “tom Brown’ and so on were killed or wounded. The committee on public information and the war department were deadlocked iu their tight on tlie matter. The committee took the firm stand that casualty lists without emergency addresses were useless as public information. and that they would not handle them. A notice from the committee said the newspapers and public should hereafter deal with the war department on the matter, but up to this forenoon, no arrangement had been made for departmental publication of even the list of names. Hence two days casualties are already piled up without publication, while the committee has frankly told the military men that the policy of concealment they planned does not in reality conceal. General Pershing's request for secrecy as to addresses, date of action and branch of service caused the war department order. Once before the department attempted to put tlie plan across but it was squelched quickly. The department argument is that the addresses give information to the enemy tending to reveal the nature of units with which tehy are dealing. Dates, they say, further let the Germans know exactly what they accomplished in certain engagements and such information is of real value as it affords the enemy a chance to know bow to alter or improve his future tactics. On the other hand, the committee pointed out to the war department that concealment of the addresses would not in fact conceal anything from the Germans. Publication of the fait that “Tom Brown” was killed would work out thus, the committee argued: Every mother or father of a “Tom Drown” in the country would be worried over the publication. The war department would be flooded with inquiries as to whether “Tom Brown" was the Tom from Abilene, Kan., or Tom fromh Swampscott. Mass.

U. B. C. E. PROGRAM The following program will be given by the Christian Endeavor society of the United Brethren church tomorrow evening at 6:00 o’clock under the leadership of Arta Lenhart: Prelude —Zelnia Nelson. ' Song. No. 80. Prayer. Scripture Lesson —Mrs. John Hill. Song. No. 110. Questions. Duet—Mrs. Frank Fisher and Mrs. Kernel Foreman. Address, “Choosing a Vocation. — Mr. C. L. Walters. Piano Solo—Mrs. Earl Myers. Questions. Song. “America.'’ Dismissal. Mr. and Mrs. Joel Roe went to Fort Wayne for a visit. Esther Enos and Mary Erwin spent the day in Fort Wayne. Eleanor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Pumphrey, is ill of an attack of acute inflammatory rheumatism. Miss Blanche Ervin went to Fort Wayne to spend Sunday with her sister. Dorothy, who is employed there. Miss May Martz went to Ft. Wayne this afternoon for a visit with her sister, Mure IMartz who is working there. Mrs. H. L. Koontz returned to her home at West Milton. Ohio, after a short visit in the city with her mother. Mrs. C. R. Hammell. Mrs. David Hoopengardner returned this afternoon to her home in Fort Wayne. She visited here with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Arnold. Norbert Holthouse will leave Monday morning for Indianapolis, where then be sent cither to Jeffersonville, Ind., or Columbus, Ohio, where he will be assigned to duties in the ordnance department, he having volunteered his service last week. He resigned today, from the Old Adams County bank.

POVERTY SOCIAP'-L Yor are invited to the homo of Mr and Mrs. V. C. Knepper. Tuesday night, March 12. “Come in your rags, come in your tags," but not in velvet gowns, or you will be fined. Read the program and nil kum. Rewls and Regerlashuns 1 Every womin whit kums must ware a poverty dres and apreit, er somethin ekelly erpropriate, an’ leave her poodle dorg to hum. 2. Know gent with biled shirt and good koller will be aloud to kum. onless he pays a fine of 5 sents. 3. A kompitent komitty will iutroduse strangers. Signed—Pastoral Helpers of Christian Church. The public is cordially invited to attend this social. Public sale. The undersigned will offer for sale at public auction at his residence, 1 mile east of Monroe. 6% miles south Lehman farm, on Friday March 15. of Decatur, on what is known as the I'llß, beginning at 12:30 o’clock, the following property. to-wit: Six Horses: Bay mare. 4 years old. good worker; bay horse. 2 years old; roan colt, 2 years old; bay colt. 2 years old; sorrel mare, 2 years old; black mare. 2 years old. Eight Cattle: Brindle iieifer, fresh soon; heifer, fresh in a few weeks; open heifer;, spring calf; Holstein, coming 1 year old, good one; Jersey cow. 4 years ol<l, fresh March 24: Holstein heifer, fresh June 9; Durham heifer, fresh April 15. Thirty-six Hogs: Three Poland China sows, pigs by side; Duroc sow. pigs by side; 3 gilts, due to farrow last of March; 3 full blood Duroc gilts to farrow in April; 25 slioats, weight 80 to 100 lbs. each; Poland China male hog. good one. Seven sheep. Four doz. full blood White Leghorn chickerfp. Farming Implements: Osborn mower. 12-10 disc harrow. Avery. International and Wiggle Tail cultivators, good as new; farm wagon. Marple cream separator. in good shape; set buggy harness, set waterproof horse covers. 5 or 6 tons of clover and some timothy hay in mow; 250 bu. good corn in

How the United States Is “Making Good” in Aviation Hindenburg is not uneasy about the coming American offensive in the air for we hear that the German military authorities have been telling their newspaper correspondents “that this American peril docs not exist.’ Even some of our own newspaper writers seem to have shared Teuton contempt for our aerial preparations. Secretary Baker’s statement that American-made battle-planes have already gone to France five months ahead of schedule, however, has gone far to reestablish confidence at home. The leading article in THE LITERARY DIGEST for March 9th is a comprehensive and detailed summary of facts from all available sources and shows what America has accomplished in carrying out its aviation program up to the present time, and what it may be expected to do in the near future. Many angles of the subject are dwelt upon in this article, but careful reading of it will justify the confident assertion of the Syracuse PostStandard that “if the airplane is to be the means by which the Hohenzollerns, Hindenburg, Ludendorff, and the whole murderous outfit are to be brought to the bar of justice, our fliers can be trusted to do the business. Some of the other striking topics treated in this particularly interesting number of “The Digest’’ are: The Hypocrisy of German Peace Talk While Count von Hertling in the Reichstag Does Lip-Service to President Wilson’s Four Principles of Peace, German Forces in Russia Trample All These Principles Underfoot. “German-American Alliance” Under Fire Our Shrinking Dinner Pail Lucid Intervals in the Russian Delirium No Plebiscite for Alsace Hungarian Fury at Austria A “Slam” for Our Exporters How German U-Boats Talk a Thou- Diving Shells to Hit U-boats Gand Miles Snow a Boon t® the Farmer A Defense of Shoddy Fabric. Teaching Posterity of the War The Well-Balanced Diet Colleoni Rides Away with His Horse (Prepared by U. S. Food Administration) Combining Three FamOUS New I Ork Frederick the Great —“Head Devil' churches What the First Draft Has Taught Ministers, Don’t Swear ! The Church Gains Falling Off News of Finance and Commerce Many Timely Illustrations, Including Hamoro.s Cartoon; The Reason for “The Digest’s” Wonderful Popularity Why are the best citizens of America, in these cipal officials, and a hundred thousand editors, times of stress and strife, of uncertainty and publishers, educators, librarians, and professional warring opinions, turning more and more, each men subscribe for it It is not a commercial, week to THE LITERARY DIGEST for business, or financial magazine. It does not spereliable information and unbiased facts regarding cialize in any of their particular lines of endeavor, current events’ Why do more than fifty thousand 'I he answer is that nowhere, except in IHE physicians, forty-six thousand lawyers, two hundred DIGES I. can they find the vital news of the and eighty thousand .manufacturers and merchants, world set forth tersely truthfully, and without eighty thousand Government, State, and Muni- bias. 1 rove this to-day for yourse»f March 9th Number on Sale To-day—All News-dealers—lo Cents Jiterdry Digest (i®!) FUNK & WAQNALLS COMPANY (Publishers of the Famous NEW Standard Dictionary), NEW YORK

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■■■• Grove, passed through the city this morning enroute to Fort Wayne.