Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 78, Decatur, Adams County, 1 April 1918 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRAT Pnk|Mwo lv«ry Kvtolaa lacapt ■uaJay *y The Decatur Democrat Company fi JOHN H. HELLER Fragment," ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUBI, Bacratgry '* Subscription Rttae Par Weak, by carrier.. 10 cents ' Par Yaer, by carrlei O 5 u 0 Par Month, by mall 20 cents Par Tear, by mall MOO „ filial* Cop'aa 2 cents Advertising ratee made known on y application. Sintered at the poslufflce In Decatur, j Indlaoa. ae second-el*** maltar ; J ADAMS COUNTY 1 BANKERS MEET:— ’ splendid county bankers association was perfected at a meeting held In Decatur. Adams county. March 20. Dinner was served at (1:110, after which addresses were delivered by t has. H. Worden. Fort Wayne, W. 11. O'Brien, Lawrenceburg. and others. Representatives of every bank in Adams county were present, and left no doubt of the part they will take in the sit port of the Third Lilvarty laran Drive. One of (he most patriotic speeches of the evening was that of K. \V. Busche, President Monroe State Bank, who said, "I was born in Germany, have brothers fighting in the German army, but I believe they would not thin); 1 was doing right if I did i»r»t stand by America, the country of my adoption. 1 believe a country tljat is good enough to live in is good enough to fight for. 1 AM FOR AMERICA” —The Hoosier Banker. Hon. Abram Simmons, of Biuffton. who has ably represented the district. Adams. Blackford and Wells counties, announces today, in a telegram to this office, that he will not be a candidate fdr reelection. We believe the office should come to Adams county this year and that if a candidate is announced here that he will not have opposition from the other counties. The names of several have been sup gested but so far we are not authorized to announce any names. The honor is a worthy one and the candidate if selected wit] have the opportunity to serve his people during one of the most important sessions ever held in the state. The Liberty Day celebration in this city will lea glorious event, we honesttly believe the biggest day ever known here. There will be speaking, bands, singing by choruses and the crowd, a wonderful parade, perhaps some soldiers, enough program ,0 make you feel that we are at war. Don't miss it. Bring the children. If you don't you will miss a day that will be talked about in the years to come. This is not an ordinary occasion hut a war event. It's your duty to help make it as Dig as possible. This is the final week for preparation for the Third Liberty Loan drive which starts next Saturday. It will open with a big celebration in this city. Boost as you have never boosted before. The watch meetings Friday evening, the speaking over the county, the Paul Revere rides, the big meeting here Saturday should arouse our people, to a pofnt of patriotism never ueA Delayed Shipment of Michaels-Stern snappy young mens clothes has arrived and placed on sale here at $22.50 to $30.00 WE MYERS-DAILEY : i COMPANY

fore known. Help put It over. e a Buy Liberty Bonds. That's the t slogan this week. Remember it talk it sing it We must support the war, 1 we must pay the debt and if we don't 1 do it one way we must uitother. Which do you prefer, a Liberty Bond or tax receipt'.’ The answer ought to ho 1 easy. 1 Well it didn’t rain Easter and so wo ought to have seven beautiful Sun days according to all the reliable weather prophets of the ages past, jj SOCIETY I § itflßwaksicßiaiiiiitaitiigwtiictis WEEKLY BOOIAL CALENDAR Monday. Delta Theta Tau Marga t : r.iith. Evangelical Men Entertaij, Ladles of Church —In Basement. T uetday. Reformed Missionary Mrs. Louis Gehrig. Liberty l»an Workers —Mrs. C. C. Schafer. Thursday. Zion Lutheran Aid -Schoolhouse. Friday. Christian Pastoral Helpers -Mrs. V. Paul Marsh. Tonight at 7:00 the men of the Evangelical church will entertain Unladies of the church at a social and business session. A good time is promised the women of the church. Miss Naomi Mayer went to Berne to be the guest of Miss Edna Winteregg over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. William HofTman and children, her brother. Will Peel, went to Berne to spend Easter with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Peel. f Misses Anna Minch and Winifred Darst left on the 1:05 train Saturday . for Portland to spend Easter at their homes Miss Lillian Kauffman spent Easter - in Bertie with her mother. Miss Bessie Ketchum wits an Easter guest at the home of her motht r at Geneva. The captains, lieutenants and worker* interested in the woman's liberty loan drive are invited to the meeting at the home of Mrs. C. C. Shaffer, 1127 North Second street, on Tuesday April 2. at 2:3tt o’clock. A very interesting program of music and addresses has been arranged with the purpose of giving out information and instruction. All the women included in the list published Thursday witiij the addition of Mrs. John Tyndall, are urged to Ire present.—Mrs. Fred F. Thornburg, chairman. The W. M. S. of Zion Reformed church will meet Tuesday at 2:30 wit It J Mrs. Louis Gehrig. 115 Sot. ii Eighth street. The program: Devotiocals, Review or, uuuooit of Missions. Mrs. J. Spuhler; Leaflet. ’’Way Out in Idaho" Mrs. W. Kirseh: letters on Missionary Correspondence. Mrs. Jaberg. Mrs. Worthman, and Mrs. Beel; Letter from Miss Esther Sellemeyvr, Mrs. B. Elzey; Business. All ladies are invited and members are urged to attend the meeting. Annual election of officers will take place as also election of delegates to the Classical meeting to be held at Huntington in May. Miss Frances Bartlett of Muncle, lnd.. was the guest of her sister. M s. W. Paul Marsh over Easter Sunday. The Ladies’ Aid of Pastoral Helpers of the Christian church will meet at the home of Mrs. W. Paul Marsh. 1404 West Monroe street. Friday afternoon at 2:30. It is hoped that a Jarge Utendance will he there. The choir of the Christian church will meet Wednesday evening. V The Easter entertainment held at the Pleasant Mills M. E. church was 1 1of great interest, and proved to he a . great interest. Every seat In the I church was tilled, and standing room ( was at. 11 premium. Miss Helen AurenL; of Fort Wayne. 1 is a guest of Miss Agne 1 Kohne, tinning to spend Easter here. Miss Luella Bultemier, of Fort Wayne, was a guest of Miss Marie , Bocse Saturday evening, and of the ; Lawrence Llnnemeicr family at , Preble over Easter. j, Mrs. John Everett and daughter. * Mrs. Cal Peterson, are spending a 1 few days with the I). S. Gates family at their home near Wren, O. t Wednesday evening the local court a of Ben Hurs will celebrate the eigh-'l feenth anniversary of its organization. Jy The state nptnager. P. O .Bowers, will be here and a fine program, the same tl to la announced later, will be present- fa

ed F.vety member of tin- lien llurs and their friends are cordially invited to come. Mrs. John Myers and daughter, Mrs. ( Will O'Brien spent Sunday at the L>ej Meyers and Mathias Miller homes. Misses Mayttie Harting and Genevteve Bmnerkamp returned this morning front Celina. ()., where they were guests of Miss Nettie Gast. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Kilbourne and Miss Garnet Kilbourne, of Fort Wayne were guests of the U. Defilinger family over Easter. William Page, manager of the local Morris store was at Biuffton today j where he attended the meeting of the j managers of tlm nineteen Morris 1 stores. A banquet was given today for the managers. “America's Easter Guest” or "The Cross Beside the Flag" was a very impressive patriotic Easter service given at the Christian church last even- ' ing. The lights were hooded in red. white and blue, taking on the form of the beacon lights to be burned during patriotic week; and the church was decorated with the national colors in other ways, and with Easter ffowers. The Easter program told the story of the ultimate triumph of Christianity ( in the present war. The program may be repeated soon. The men of the Evangelical church will entertain the ladies this evening at seven o'clock. The ladies fear an I A 1 ril first joke, but have been assured that such is not the case. However.' the men are keeping the nature of the entertainment a secret. — Mr. and Mrs. Charles an 1 daughter, ireta. spent Easter with thej Ed and Jesse Voirol families at Woodburn. Miss Ireta was accompanied home by her cousin. Inez Voirol. who will be her guest this week. The Delta Theta Tau sorority will meet this evening with Miss Mar garet Smith. I Mrs. B. W. Sholty was a guest of the Henry Koenemann family at Hoagland Easter. The Zion Lutheran I-atdies’ Aid society will meet all day in the schoolhouse Thursday. Mrs. Chris Bieberich will serve the dinner. The Rev. and Mrs. W. S. Mills, the Evangelical church, received :ij pleasing, bnt touching Easter greeting Sunday from their son. Edgar, at | Camp Meigs. Washington, D. C. He sent by parrels post a beautiful bouquet of sweet peas, with an Easter greeting therewith —o A 0 OOR T I :§ 8 CKa»L;a6?aKaKasaxax«:7«s«Ka« Licensed to marry: (’latent M. DeBolt. born March 19. 1900, son of j Chauncev DeKolt. and I-eota May Foreman, born October 17. 1900; .vl-j bert Stuckey, assistant cashier, Geneva. born October 21. 1894. and Flossie Meshberger. horn November 12. j 1896, daughter of Jolui Meshberger. of French township. Real estate transfers: Margaret J Hahn to William A. and Martha Duer. lot. 62. Monroe. $1,000: Java V. Ilanta to William Wittwer. 100 acres of Hartford township, $18,500. Robert Nevil and Ethel Gleason were married this morning at eleven ' o’clock in the county clerk’s office Injustice E. Burt Lenhart. The groom resides at Geneva and was born November 12. 1894, being a son of John Nevil. The bride was l>orn October 14. 1900, and is a daughter of Dennis Gleason, of Geneva. In the Brewster partition case, report of commissioner was filed. DEATH TAKES TOIL (Continued from Page One) to tier reward, when Mrs. Margaret Jane Hilpert. wife of Frederick Hflpert, of Bobo, died Saturday evening at 8 o'clock, from tubercular trouble.j Born in Guernsey county, 0., a daughter of Joseph . Merrill. July 6. 1856, she had reached at the time of death, the age of sixty-one years, eight months and twenty-four days of aga. Practically all of her life was spent In ihe community where her death occurred. She leaves husband and two sons. Milton, of this city; and William. at home. | Funeral services will be Tuesday afternoon at two o’clock at the United Brethren church at Rivarre. interment Itefitg in the Decatur cemetery. War Veteran Called. Aaron Zerkel, well known Decatur civil war veteran, died last Thursday at, LaGrange, at the home of Isaac ' Raver where he lived for several I years. The following obituary was sent to' his office today by the Isaac Raver <1 amily: Ia

LONG BOY. Bill Hertchell’s famou* song which la being used everywhere for the Liberty Loan drive. It has the pep. Cut it out and save it so you can sing with the reet of Adams county. We was just a long, lean country gink From 'way out west, where the hoptoads wink; He was six feet two in his stockin' feet, An’ kept gittin thinner th’ more he’d eat. But he was as brave as he was thin, When the war broke out he got right in; Unhitched his plow, put th’ mule away, Then th' old folks heard him say; CHORUS. Goodby, Ma! Goodby, Pa! Goodby, mule, with yer old hee-haw! I may not know what th’ war's about, But you bet. by gosh, I’ll soon find out. An’ O my sweetheart, don’t you fear, I'll bring you a King ter a souvenir; I'l git you a Turk an’ a Kaiser, too, An’ that's about all one feller could do. One pair of socks was his only load When he struck fer town by th’ old dirt road. He went right down to th' public square An' fell in line with th' soldiers there. Th' sergeant put him in uniform, His gal knit mitts fer to keep him warm; They drilled him hard, they drilled him long, Then he sang his farewell song: CHORUS.

Aaron Zerkel, was born in Auglaze county, 0.. Oct 21, 1844; died March 2S. 1918. Age seventy-four years, five m inths and seven days. His wife having preceded him in death, 'and having no children, he made his jhonie with Isaac Raver, who kindly cared for him for over six years. He ■ leaves one brother, one step-daughter, and three step-grandchildren. He was :a veteran of the civil war being a private in Company A. 81st regiment. Ohio infantry. Day closes and under the sentinel ' stars, how many are sleeping that fall in the wars: hut glance for a moment from grief to the joys of the land 1 above where brothers and sisters and husbands anil wives with the angel of peace by the gate may abide: while ■ high in the Heavens a warrier rides, 'his glorious raiment is gleaming like gold; so calm and so beautiful he seent etlt. God Mars look more like spirit of peace than of war. Botuiinus Was Found In Beans from Page One) of the illness occurring in Decatur abotuiinus is confirmed by bacteriologi : cal examination and the evidence in 'criminates the canned stringed beans or possibly other home canned article! 'served. Efforts to i.--oiate B. botuiinus from jsj|omacli. intestinal 'contents, and Is] leen submitted have proven negative I to all methods employed to date. I • Yours very truly. ROBERT GRAHAM Professor of Animal Pathology. JUST WHAT THEY ASK FOR After today. April 1, Postmaster J I V\\ Bosse lias been notified to receive (no mere parcels for mailing to the I Ametlcan Expeditionary Forces in I France, unless they contain only ar ■ titles requested by the one to whom they are addressed. Such parcels should have inclosed the written request of the one to whom they are addressed, and over Ihe address of the sender, should be written the follow ing: "This parcel contains only arti ties sent at the approved request o! addressee, which is inclosed.” This order, it is thought, is due to military necessity, as a very large amount cl mail, including unnecessary articles, have been sent, and it is difficult to handle the same. ON NEW TORPEDO BOAT Edwin Overlay. 27, for nine years in the navy, left this afternoon at 1:85 o'clock, for Norfolk. Va., and from there will go to San Francisco, where he has been assigned for duty on the new torpedo boat. U. S. Schley. H>has been lately on the Monaghan, a destroyer, and has spent eight months in France. On being sent to the states, to be transferred to the new boat, he was granted a fifteen days' furlough, and took advantage of the 1 same to visit with his mother, Mrs. Abe Whitriglit, of this city. He ha 1 many interesting experiences and brought with him many souveners of France and other places. ATfACK OF APPENDICITIS ____ / Margaret Moran. Jr., daughter of Miami lllrs. John C. Moran, Is confined to her bed with a serious attack of j acute appendicitis. Whether an op elation will be necessary is unknown at thfs time. The attack came on Saturday evening, while she was return-, ing -from Berne in the jitney. Being! la brave litle girl, however, she refused 11 to have a physician until this morning. when it was pronounced appendicitis. "COUNCIL OF DEFENSE • { The Washington township council of defense met at the office of Trust' n | Augkenlmugh Saturday and orga tiztd \

with the election of the following officers: chairman. Fred Busche; secretary, William E. Faurote; treasurer. H. E. Wittwer. The next meeting will be April 13. • o * TO CONFERENCE Rev. F .F. Thornburg, of the Methodist church will go to Warsaw to at tend the annual North Indiana Methodist conference which convenes there Wednesday morning at nine o’clock, and which will continue through the following Monday. Rev. W. S. Mills will leave tomorrow for Elkhart to attend the annual Evangelical conference, which opens Wednesday afternoon. DATE IS CHANGED The meeting announced for Tuesdav evening at the Kinsey schoolhouse fit Blue Creek township, has been called off and the following meetings arranged in their stead; Salem, Sunday at 10:30; Mt. Hope. Sunday morning. 10:30; Egypt. Sunday afternoon at 2:30. Mrs. Dregntan is the woman's speaker. SELLEMEYERS ARE HAPPY A card from A. H. Sellemeyer, written from Los Angeles, Cal., arrived this morning and says: "Our time is so taken up' visiting and sight-seeing that we can't find time for letter writting. We are having the time of our lives —fine weather, beautiful city and flowers—we almost feel like staying for good, but expect to be home in time to vote.” CARD OF THANKS We sincerely wish to thank our friends, neighbors, singers and the minister for the kindness they have show’ll us during the death and sickless of our beloved mother and wife. Mr. J. T. Johnson and family.

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jjv Your Flag Is there a flag Hying tram your home? At this I lime every loyal American should fly his flair, and if I you haven’t any. be sure to set one before the sth I of April, and comply with the orders to decorate. I We have just received a shipment of large Ameri- I can (lass. 4x6, and are selling them for $1.95, includ- I ins pole and fixtures. They sure are beauties. I Come in and look them o\er. § M. Fullenkampl THE BOY “OVER THERE” mav have a portrait of Mother—but he’d like one of “Dad,” too—send one in the next letter. Make the appointment today. ERWIN STUDIO Above Callow & Rice Drug: Store. Bring of mail us your kodak work. W. J. Dowling Will Sell Ft. Wayne Real Estate Have you thought of buying property in or near Ft. Wayne, either for a home or as an investment? If so. you may find it desirable to take the matter up with a dealer in Real estate whom vou have known. MR. \V. J. DOWLING, formerly of Decatur, is now employed by me as salesman and will give special attention to parties from his home town. \AJ. E. DOUD 224-9 Utility Bldg. Fort Wayne, Indiana. 'Phones 253-627

SERVICE FLAG HERE A service flag containing a star fer . each of the more than three hundred • selected and volunteer soldiers from this county, has arrived and will he raised at Saturday's celebration. It is ten by twenty feet and the greatest flag ever seen in this city. Be sure to be here to cheer for this flag which means so much. CODGES DELIVERED T. J. Durkin made three more deliveries of Dodge cars Saturday. They went to David Werling and John Hoffman, of Preble, and John A. Peoples.

HANG OLD GLORY OUT Decorate yo^t—house and store and shop for Friday and Saturday. It's the biggest day in history and the red, white and blue oughj. to float everywhere. Hang out the flag, put up bunting, show your colors. You have been asked to decorate before but never when it was so important that the spirit of ‘76 be manifested. This is the one great occasion when every American should decorate with the red, white and blue Help keep the glow in old glory. HENRY THOMAS. Chairman