Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 86, Decatur, Adams County, 10 April 1918 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT* Published Every Evening Except Sunday by 1 — ——— , The Decatur Democrat Company JOHN H. HELLER President i ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Secretary 1 «n— ■ ■ t | Subscription Ratos t Per Week, by carrier 10 Cents 1 Per Year, by carrier 15.00 [ Per Month by mail 25 cents « I’m tear, by mail S3OO Single Copies 2 cents < Advertising rates made known on i application. 1 Entered at the postoffice in Deca- 1 nr Indiana, as second-class matter c I Snow .-.nd real January weather the c loth day of April brings forth the ... u. 1 growls, but you know that this is not so very unusual for Indiana. t We have ordered balmy zephyrs for Saturday and nave been promised 1 promt t delivery, so why worry. t Hon. George M. Barnard of New 1 Ca.\le, one of the state’s most gifted ’ orators will deliver the patriotic ad- I dress here Saturday. He will give you? a message of merit we know and be 1 should be heard by every one who can ’ spate the time and get within hear- 1 ing. * - ——■ — — ■■■ hii,» < Ihe bind sale in Adams county Is n god We a ill go over the top nicely, in fact, it looks easy from ail reports coming in. The men and women are doing everything they can to give everybody an opportunity to support their government and it ought not to take force. We should do it gladly and willingly. According to London cables it is ; rumored there that an airplane car-y---ing twelve passengers has arriv’d from the United States, making a non- i stop trip across the Atlantic. A fleet of these would certainly wake the boys < up around Berlin and would make those knockers on American air- ] plane achievements feel like a dirty i thirty cent piece. Candidates for delegates to the state convention should file their pe- | titions signed by ten voters of their political faith, on or before the 17th. 1 The democrats of Adams county will have fourteen delegates and these have been apportioned over the coun:y according to the vote east. File your declaration now if you are a candidate for this honor and very important duty. The Jackies’ are coming Saturday. These thirty-five boys will soon be o i the high sea or over in France fighting for you. The visit should be one of importance for the people of tills community. Let’s show the boys as good a time as we can, that their vi .it to Decatur may be long remembered. Plans towards that end are now being made. If you have any suggestion, make it now. if you can help any way. do it. This is a community affair, everybody welcome to greet the boys and make them enjoy their few hours stop in Decatur. Tfie concert and the drill will be worth while. Maxamillian Harden, the great Ger-

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■ • "■""—in I I Suau journalist speaks his mind it' seems even in his own country and here ie a part of what he H»ys: “Alter all, what special justification is there for the pau-Germiuts and the war at 'uny price mouth heroes to glout over recent triumphs over tho English? It is true that the U-boats huve contrived to bring it about that in an English hotel or boarding house no more meat is supplied at breakfast and that afternoon tea guests receive only an ounce and a half of bread or cako Also an old maid of Dover who fed her fourteen Uttlo dogs with milk and biscuits, has had to atone for her crime with a 5 pound note. All this, however, does not yet spell the decay of the British empire. It is time that the warmongers were muzzled and that the authorities once for all gave them to understand that'they are determined, whenever the claims of any nation or group of peoples are found to bo justified, that Germany would honestly aid them in establishing themselves on a clean basis of self government. May our rulers reflect while yet there is time that, unless a new order be substituted for the old one of violence and force, human life will become intolerable and all hopes of human development will be rendered sterile for ages to coine.” ;■ tti | SOC IETY J K rrtnyrixie: ..rrtrmwrwva h WEEKLY SOCIAL CALENDAR Thursday. Pythian Sisters —K. of P. Home. Willing Helpers—Mrs. Charles Nyf- 1 tier. Phoebe Bible Class —Mrs. Charles . Brcdbeck. < Evangelical Aid —Mrs. Fred, Hoff- ( man. , Loyal Workers —Mrs. Emerson Ben- . nett home. U. B. Ladies’ Aid —At Parsonage. Methodist Missionary — Methodist Church. Liberty Loan Speech—Mrs. Olive Lewis at Masonic Hall. Presbyterian Missionary—Mrs. Ed Moses. Friday. j Queen Esthers —Mrs. O. L Vance. ] Zion Lutheran Ladies’ Aid —School , house. ( St. Vincent de Paul—Red Cross Work Shop. Pocahontas Needle Club—At Hall. c WHERE IS YOUR DAUGHTER? Do you know at this moment? j V. W. C. A. workers tell us that q the chances are very large that , she is at present running after a , soldier! The chances are partic- ; ularly large if she is between twelve and sixteen years. Your ] daughter, mind you! Not the , wild little girl who belongs to the 5 tough folk who live in the next ] block, or the tough little girl who , belongs to tho weak family over t back of you. Your girl. Watch . her! At her age she knows so , much more than you dream she , does and so much less than you . take it for granted she does. The uniforms are fascinating and so is she. It’s brutally unfair to her 1 and to the lads who wear that uniform that you do not guard her better. Where does she eat her 1 noon lunch? Where does she go after school? Do you let her go alone to tho movies after supper, or stay all night with her schoolgill chum? She is unspeakably precious. So are those lads, so young, so very young, in their uniforms. Guard them both. It Is your job, day and night.—Honorri Willsie, in the Delineator. The St. Vincent de Paul society will meet. Friday afternoon at the R> 4 Cross work shop. At a good meeting of the Y. P. A. of the Evangelical church, held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Merrynjan last evening, it was decided to ref ?r the proposition of having the Northwestern College Glee club come here, to the Sunday school, they to decide whether to have same or not. Miss • Marcella Kern was taken in as a new member. The business session was I followed by Victrola music and refreshments of ice cream and cake.

John Murtz and his wife celebrated their golden wedding anniversary last Friday. They invited all their children and grandchildren home to a fine dinner which they had prepared tor them. Mr. Martz is seventy-four years old ami Mrs. Martz is sixtynine. Both are enjoying the best >f health. Here’s hoping they may enjoy many more happy years toge-.ii-l [er. —Bento Witness. I I Mrs. C- E. Beil presided at the W. C. 1

T. U. meeting at the Baptist church In I the absence of Mrs. H. M. Stroll who , was called away by her father's injury ; and Mrs. Shamp served as secretary and treasurer tor Mrs. C. L. WallLore and Mrs. C. E. Hocker who were ■ obliged to be elsewhere on liberty t ' loan matters. The meeting was yesI terday afternoon and there was much enthusiasm. The good program as an--1 nounced was given, and the closing t prayer was given by Mrs. W. J. Myers. . Mrs. 8. E. Hite and Mrs. S. E. Shamp ( will have the next gathering, the same being at the Hite home. I The Willing Helpers’ class of the I Reformed Sunday school will meet with Mrs. Charles Nyffler, Jr., on the Frtsinger farm southeast of tho city ■ tomorrow. All those who have r.o way of getting out. should meet at the | home of the teacher, Mrs. M. F. WorthI maun, not later than 8:45 o’clock tomorrow morning and conveyances will transport them. The Zion Lutheran Ladies' Aid society will meet all day Friday in the 1 schoolhouse. Dinner will be served I by Mrs. William Bteberich. Because of the scarlet fever quarantine on tho Thornburg home, the Queen Esthers will meet Friday evening at the t). L. Vance home. The Pythian Sisters will have their regular meeting Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the Home. The attention of tire members is called to this. The Woman’s Home Missionary society of the Methodist church will ‘ [ meet Thursday afternoon at the ' church. Devotionals will lie conducted I by Mrs. Mary Eley; Mrs. L. E. Keller will give a paper. “Has the Woman s Home Missionary Work been a Success?”: Miss Helen Walters and Miss < Gertrude Yager will give readings. A < good attendance is desired. < 1 The Moose hall will be thrown open r tomorrow evening for the first dance ( of the season. Fred Schurger will be- 1 gin Ills spring dancing class at that < time, the same to be followed by the social dance. < ; - -—— iGO 0 R T i s * A marriage license was issued to 1 James Duy Briggs, banker of Geneva, born April 8, IS9O, son of Andrew G. Briggs, to wed Mary Ellen Hoskinson, of Geneva, born January 20. 1838. daughter of William Hoskinson. Real estate transfers: C. C. Sprung- 1 er to D. M. Habegger, lots 525, 525, f 527, Berne, $325; C. C. Sprunger to s Abraham J. Moser, lots 522 523, 524, t Berne, $300; John A. Wentz et al., to < Theodore A. Hendricks, 20.80 acres of t Wabash township, quit claim deed. $1; * Verinika Schenbeck, et al, to Theodore f A. Hendricks, 20.80 acres of Wabash township, quit claim deed, $1; David 1 P, Sommer, et al., to Pearl J. Ray- 1 mond, 80 acres of Monroe township, $15,200; Peoples Loan & Trust Com- 1 1 any to Clyde O. Drollinger, trustees’ , 1 deed. $2250; Jesse O. Sellemeyer et al ( to Daniel W. Beery, lot 6, Decatur, 1 $8500; George W. Cooper to Albert Stucky. lo’ 383 Geneva, $1,000; Ed- , ward F. Elliott to Julius Reichert, Id , acres of Wabash toynship, $3500. Judgment was rendered on the verdict returned recently by the jury, for Theodore Woest against McKenzier for $1370: and against the Rupol estate for S4OO. Juilgment for costs yas also rendered against McKenzior and Rupel. Judgment was rendered also in fa - , or of E. C. and O. D. Arnold on a certain qwestion involved in the ease. Christcnu Young, administratrix of tho estate of Frank Reffe, filed petition for sale of real estate to pay debts Summons' was ordered for Emanuel Race, returnable April 19. ITS GOING OVER BIG (United Press Servient Washingion, April 10—(Sjiecial to Daily Democrat) —The liberty loan > drive continued today at top speed. 1 Any doubt that the $3,000,000,000 mini- • mum would be oversubscribed has • been vanished and the campaign i< , now developing in a run for a tremend- ’ ous sale. s Secretary McAdoo, speaking at v Raleigh, urged the nation to triple h or quadruple the original $3,000,000.- ■ 000 figure with 20,000,000 individui'l subscriptions.

Telegrams arriving at the treasury “from virtually every federal reserve district” said that quotas hud been “lost sight of” and that efforts now were for over-subscriptiot.fi. _______ 0 _______ NEW YORK IS BUSY rUntled I’n-ss Service) New York, April 10 -(Special t > Daily Democrat) —New York opened ithe fourth day of her drives for $907.[IIOO,OOO for the third liberty loan with an unofficial total of $177,150,900 in subscriptions to her credlL

; Sammies Are Fightinn With Allies In France (Continued from Page On>) '’l<>n the Lys river, between Estaires on ’ the north bank of the Lys, tour miles 1 1 northwest of Fauqufssart. and Bac S’. ' | Maur, on the south bank, three miles ’, east and north of Estquires. The im- '| portant towns captured by tho enemy ’ included Laventle, two miles north and west of Fauquissnrt; Richebourg ”- .St. Vaast, a mile and a half west of , Native Chapello and Faquissart. . ' A United Press dispatch from W‘lI Ham Philip Simms reported tin- Ger- . mans shelling Bethune, an important ,; city four miles west of Givenchy, on [the I.a Bassee cam 1. and other town.-. . in the rear Areas. The rain, he said, was continuing. Elsewhere on the British front there were no important operations. The German war office, in, describing the Bassce-Armentieres attack said: “North of La Bassee canal we penetrated into British and Portuguese positions.” On the extreme southern flank of the big offensive front. Berlin reported the French had been thrown back across the Oise-Aisne canal “between Coucy-L-Chatcau and Brancourt.” Th’ la’ter town probably is Bethancourt, two miles south of Coucy-Le-Chateau. The French war office admitted this retirement in its day communique but said French artillery had broken up enemy concentrations in that region ! later. Violent artillery fighting was described north of Mont Didier in the Paris statement. Washington. D. C., April 10 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Publication ; of 447 American casualties today sent a sobering realization throughout the nation of what the days ahead hold. These casualties withheld for six days, under the Baker order, making Pershing the arbiter of his own news, contained the names of eighteen men : killed in action, eighteen from other 1 causes and more than 300 wounded. 1 The list also revealed that the Ger- ’ mans had taken a score of American ■ prisoners. Official news of the American engineers' galant battle in the first part of the Piccardy drive is still lacking , here. (By William Philip Simins, United Press Staff Correspondent) With the British Amies in France. . April 9—(Special to Daily Democrat) The Germans attacked violently the ' British and Portuguese positions from the Laßassee canal to a point southward of Armentieres at 8 (/clock this morning. They apparently gained a footing east of LoPlatin and Petillon and at Givenchy. On our left , flank we apparently are holding. Hot fighting is continuing. General von Quast’s attack this morning followed a violent bombardment, opening at 4:05 o’clock. It continued for an hour or two, then died down. . A couple of hours later a sudden barrage was put down from Armentieres to northward of Lens, the German infantry following in its wake. Heavy, continual fighting resulted, which was particularly hot east of Festubert. Long range guns shelled Bethune. Estaires. Laventie and practically all the villages in the back areas. Von Quast used several fresh divisions. The weather was misty and the sky overcast throughout the day. The ground is very muddy owing to the rains. Hind-nburg. foiled in his attempt against Arras, Vimy and Notre DameLorette, perhaps hopes to flank tho British positions from the north. New York. N. Y., April 10—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Major General Leonard Wood, under orders, is today enroute to Camp Funston, Kansas. to take charge of the eightyninth division. 4By Carl D. Groat, United Press Staff , Corespondent) i Washington, D. C., April 10 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Presure for a naval offensive to supplement the . coast battling on the west line is . manifest anew in army and navy quarters. There are those among the navy officials who predicted today that more aggresive action will come be- " fore July 1. though they did not venture to forecast its magnitude. 1 London. April 10 —(Special to the i- Daily Democrat) —“On the British e front, south of the Somme there was local fighting,” Filed Marshal Haig reported today. “The situation is unchanged.” “Fighting continued north of the Laßassee canal yesterday evening mid last night." the statement said. ’ “We are holding the line on the rivers Lawo and Lys. and are heavily ,• engaging the enemy on the crosings 1 at Estaires and Bac St. Maur. 1 “On the southern Hank. Givenchy was recaptured in a successful coun-

| ter attack. We took 750 prisoners I here." | "East and north of Armentieres, us ! far us the Ypres-Comiues canal, there was a heavy hostile bombard ment early this morning with light- . tug on tho southern portion of this 1 front." ’ y 11 ■■■ • - I---SESSION SEEMS ASSURED fUnlted FraM Servins) • IndianupoHa- April 10 -(Special t > ' Daily Democrat) - For the second time 1 within ten months legislative leaders ■ of liotli parties will meet with Governor Goodrich tomorrow to discuss calling a special session of the legis ■ lature. Among those called to the. conference are Charles A. McGonagle, Muncie; Joseph M. (’ravens, Madison: Jesse Eschliaeh. Warsaw: Frank Culbertson, Vincennes; Walter McConah. Richmond: Walter Chambers. Nev castle. The governor has reached the conclusion that a special session will be necessary to properly conduct the state’s business, according to those :u close touch with his views. He hacalled tho leaders, it is believed to discuss with them what questions will bn taken up and to procure if possible, 'tlmir consent to limiting the business which will be taken up. SOLDIER BOY DEAD Mr and Mrs. W. A. Kuebler had word today of the death of a nephew, Louis Kuebler. 23, a soldier at Camo Pike. Ark., whose death resulted less than a week after contracting pneumonia. His brother, Albert, who was with him will accompany the body to the home city. Tiffin, 0.. for burial. The deceased is a son of Joe Kuebler. He expected <0 leave soon fer Franco, where he also has a brother in the army. TAR AND FEATHERS (Vi'liei.: Press Service) Aberdeen. Washington, April 10 (Special to Daily Democrat)—Six I. W. W leaders were seized in their -ooms today by members of a vigilance committee, taken along a country road and tarred and feathered. They were then ordered to leave th” vicinity. CARD FROM JOHN WEMHOFF Mrs. J. H. Heller received a card from John Wemhoff who was captain f the eighteen men who went to Cam Taylor I st week in which he say ; Th” boys enjoyed the him lies fine. All feeling O. K.. and like it fine. Thank the other ladies for us. Sincerely John Wemhoff. ON WAY TO FRANCE Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Cole have received word that their son. Jesse, who has been in th special training camp at Leon Springs, Texas, is one of the few- who made good and he left last Sunday with the others for France where they will take an advanced course in artillery. o THE CONCERT TONIGHT Wabash College Glee Club Will Be Here. The Wabash College Glee club concert is tpnight at 8 o'clock at the Masonic hall. They come here under the auspices of the Tri Kappa girls. Tho proceeds will go to Red Cross work. Those who have not ye' secured tickets may pay the admission price of fifty cents at the door. EVANGELICAL PRAYER MEETING The prayer meeting of the Evangelical church will be held in the prayer room at the church at 7:30 o’clock tonight.. A good attendance is urged a -ECKMANSalcerlis FOR W&AK L'JKGS or throat *rr»ubh's that threaten tn bocoitia chronic, this Calcium cr riponnd will found effective. Th- 1 andi.-st form T*'t devis'd Fre?. from harmful or habitforming tfrugb. Try them today. 50 cents a box, including war tax For rale hv all CTtiggriuts Ix'kmau laboratory, FhiUidclphia JACK J. S B. i- jawi & 1 REGISTERED, stands 16 hands high. Will make the season of > 1918 at my barn. Also a good * BELGIAN STUD- Come and see them. JIM M. ANDREWS ■ Owner and Keeper, Monroe, Ind.

Don’t Experiment In Clothes Now This is no time to experiment in clothes. You can’t afford to waste resources our fighters need. When you buv cheap clothes you re not only w asl . ing year money, but you’re wasting labor and wool. You’ll have to buy tw o cheap cotton mixed suits to get the wear that is in one good all-wool suit. H \RT SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHES are all-wool for long wear and economy; and are guaranteed to give satisfaction. $20.00 to $35.00 Clothcraft make. $12.50 to $20.00 HOLTHOUSE, SCHULTE & CO GOOD CLOTHES SELLERS FOR MEN AND BOYS FERTILIZER —CAR LOAD JUST CAME IN— Just Received BLUE HEN INCUBATORS BLUE HEN BROODERS Best On the Market BRING IN YOUR EGGS E. L. CARROLL & SON For Sale, Rent Or Lease I As 1 have taken the position of Sales Manager in Indiana for the Pact-O-Graph, it will be impossiIble for me to devote my time to my business. I, therefore, offer my pool and billiard hall for sale, rent or lease. If interested see me at once. RALPH MILLER Home Billiard Hall, W. Madison St., Opp. Court House PERFECTION ASBESTOS PROTECTED TIRES inin in jiiiimii nii—iif ■■■■■ ■■m $■ The latest and finest fabric tires, protected with a layer of asbestos fabric are on display at the Holthouse Fireproof Garage, exclusive local dealer. These casings are guaranteed as follows: 7500 Miles On Ford I Size, Including 31X4. 6000 On all larger sizes Miles. It will pay any user of tires to investigate this I I exceptional construction. j I Holthouse Fireproof Garage Exclusive local Dealers. I