Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 91, Decatur, Adams County, 16 April 1918 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published" Every Evening Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company JOHN H. HELLER President ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Secretary Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier 10 Cents Per Year, by carrier 15.00 Per Month, by mail 35 cents Per Year, by mail 13.00 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. . - — _ „ —-■ '■■■ ■» ] Entered at the postoffice in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. * — — — 1 ■ i Canada has passed a law which . forces every man who is physically | able to do useful work and this in- , dudes not only the "weary willle” ] but the town loafer, the lazy dude, ] the rich and i>oor, the wealthy retired ( mau and every one else and why , should some men produce while others < sit by in idleness? It’s worth con- ( sidering. Adams county has passed the half way mark and with three weeks to work, it seems certain that we will do our part in this drive. A third of the counties of the state have already made the grade and a dozen more are nearing the goal. Let's don't be the last. If you are going to take bonds, do it now so that we can make a record that will repay the five hundred men and women who have worked so hard for several weeks. By the middle of summer this county will have more than five hundred boys, as line lads as ever marched away from any county, in training for war and at the front. In the name of God what kind of people will send her fairest youths to war and then refuse to support them? The better we support them the better can they do their work, the sooner will they return to us and the prouder you will be of their record. Let no man fail in his duty. In Germany’ the government takes all the farmer’s produce and pays them an arbitrary price in government bonds. In America the government guarantees a minimum price for staples, assuring the farmer an on- ' couraging profit, then asks him to lend money to the cause, by buying Libertv ( bonds. Yet there are farmers in in- , diana who haven't awakened to a realization that withholding their 1 money at.this time means an indorse- t meat of the German system. Fann- 1 ers should buy Liberty bonds the same as they buy any other insurance. Henry county has gone over the top ! hud is still working for the Third Liberty loan. One of the best things we notice about their report is 'he , fact that it was subscribed from i every townsnip ail but three having I met their quota and these will do so ‘ before they quit. That's the big idea. The county seats have been doing and ‘ will continue to do their full share, j as they ought to, but the outlying ; townships should also carry their part 1 of the burden. It is not this drive 1

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i alone, but there will bo more perhaps many of them and during such dark hours as these, every citizen should want to carry his part of the load. 'Io do less is not only unpatriotic but unselfish and unfair. \\ hat you don't do some one else will have to until it reaches that stage when you are made to do it. A wealthy citizen of this county refused to buy bonds a day or two ugo because, he said, he had just bougnt another farm and waa in debt on it. An old man, foreign born amAalklng broken asked him what he would do if the doctor told him that he had appendicitis and that nothing but an operation at a cost of SSOO would save his life. Os course the rich man said he would dig it up and ten times that much if necessary and then the old man replied, “Well you have something worse than api>endicitis, you have a cruel enemy knocking at your door who if given the opportunity will take away not only all your property but your freedom and your rights and make of you a slave.” He was right and it is possible that many of us will live to realize the truth of what he said. |SOGIE.TY| r Tuesday > C. W. B. M.—Mrs. V. C. Knepper. Walther League — Zion Lutheran < Schoolhouse. 1 C. U. B. I. —Naomi -Baker. i Wednesday. t Reformed Ladies’ Aid —Mrs. Fred j Heuer. i Red Cross Sewing Society—Mrs. C. C. Sheets. 5 Thursday. i Ic-Nick —Edith Miller. c Philathea Class —Mrs. C. E. Bell, i Reformed Ladies at Red Cross Work 1 shop. t Silent Workers—Mrs. Ben Pillars. 1 Friday. I Christian Pastoral Helpers —Mrs. Henry Schultz. v Mite Society—M. E. church. f Mrs. F. V. Mills, corresponding seeretarv for the Methodist Woman's , Home Missionary society of the Fort Wayne district, went to Fort Wayne , d this morning to meet with the other r officer ; of the district to arrange the program for the annuel district convention to be held in June at the First Church, Fort Wayne. The meeting ! was held today at the Y. W. C. A. 1 r Mrs. Anna McConnell, county chair- r man of the woman’s registration, went to Berne today to meet with Mrs. E. n K. ShaUey, a ciiairiu<u>. V. , r G went with her were Mrs. Ed S. Moses / Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Chronister. n J Miss Edith Miller will entertain the . r Ic-Nick club Thursday evening. State Manager Duke and Mrs. Duke will be at the meeting of the local 1 Yeomen this evening, and all mem- t bers are urged to come as this' will f be the last time that Mr. and Mrs. Duke will be with them. They are | preparing to return to Texas. ( Charles O. Schick, who is establish- ( ing an aerological station at Royal Center, Ind., spent Sunday here with his wife, formerly Veda Hensley. Mr. 1 Schick was taken into the Masonic a lodge last evening. He left this I morning for Royal Center where he r will finish his work about May 1. after which he and Mrs. Hensley will I go to his new headquarters in Texas. , ~ —— - ( | 6 O 0 RT I. A m I A marriage license was Issued last evening to T. IL C. Beall, minister of the Methodist. Episcopal church, bort) March 10, 1839, son of T. Beall, and Tercashia R. Hager, born February 8, 1875 .daughter of Nathan Durbin. Both were married before. The groom's marriage was dissolved by death in 1916 -and the bride’s by dAith August 11, 1914. Real estate transfers: E. Kratzer, el al, to Catherine Biberstine lot 24, Berne. $3,000; M. Yant to Clarence A. Lee, lot 169. Berne. sl.; Rebecca Priest, to William P. Merriman. 14.27 acres of Blue Creek township, quit claim ded, $1: Gail O. Baughman, el al to Wliliam P. Merriman. 28 acres of Blue Creek township, $3800: Anna Al. Parson to V. D. Newton, lot 304 Geneva, $1; Frank Everett to Adam ' Pease, lot 21 Monroe, S9OO. The damage ease of Charles Lowden vs. John D. Lamb, was brought to I the Adam - circuit court on change of

venue from the Allen Superior court o Giving Free Access To The Heights Os Ypres (Continued from Page One) ish defenses protecting the Ypres low lands to the rear. Hitherto the Germans have been fighting along comparatively level ground. They now enter upon what ought to be the most difficult part of their task. If Hindenburg continues his effort to reach Ypres the slaughter of his troops as they attempt to advance through the hills may well become unprecedented even for the present man killing drive. The loss of the two towns is a serious matter for Marshal Haig, chiefly because the British are now compelled to fight in their final defenses to save Ypres. Bailleul's former value as an important center of communications had disappeared with tlie German advance within artillery range several days ago. Wulverghem’s imixirtance as a defensive outpost for the highly important Messines ridge positions was seriously jeopardized when th? Germans captured Neuve Eglise yesterday. Messines ridge, three miles north of Wulverghem, still remains in British possession, as do the hills forming a convex crescent-shaped defense immediately north of Bailleul. ( By William Philip Simms, United Press staft correspondent 1 With the British Armies in France. April 15 —(Special to Daily Democrat 1 — Beaten to a standstill before Amiens and blocked on tlie road toward Hazebrouek where will Hindenburg strike next? He must strike again or acknowledge his offensive broken, which nobody here pretends is the case. British fighters admit the allies must with stand further blows, similar to those just past, before the war’s great crisis is over. About 129 enemy divisions (1,440,900 men) have already been identified in the Somme and Lys lighting. This does not mean they are unable to light further, as many have but few losses. With their unused divisions, the German masses are still colossal. Fresh troops continue to arrive from Russia and Rumania. Hindenburg has well over 200 divisions (2.400.000 men) on the west front. Reliable authorities in Switzerland told me the German forces would roach 220 divisions (2,640,000 men) before a definite decline. Prisoners admit the German’s great difficulty is in bringing up guns and material The British artillery lias killed many horses and the badly cratered toads are frequently impassable for motor trucks, necessitating rebuilding. Bridges also must be reconstructed and narrow guage railreads prolonged. Desultory fighting continues on the northern and southern tattle fronts. i.rtii.-;,, Lu.. Amiens by day and bombing it bynight—but not heavily, as von Der Marwitz probably hopes to establish headquarters there and does not wish to destroy it totally. The German artillery generally is less noisy, owing -prisoners declare—to the difficulties in supplying ammunition. Lacking a wind to dry the ground, Hindenbutg—never a “mud horse” — probably is praying to the German God for sunshine. Paris, April 16 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —One woman was killed and two persons wounded when the long range bombardment of Paris was resumed today. London. Aprii 16—(Special to Daily Democrat) — Ten German trawlers were sunk by British warships in the Cattagat yesterday, th* British adin’ralty announced today. "The Cattegat was swept Monday," the statement said. “Ten German trawlers were sunk by gunfire. Their crews were saVed by British ships. There were no British casualties.” Washington. April 16—(Special to Daily Democrat)— Disappearance of the navy collier Cyclops with about 300 abroad promised today to go down in the annals of the sea as one of its strangest mysteries. The navy, though stilF searching the tropic seas, has virtually abandoned all but the faintest hoim of finding her or any traces of her crew. A complete tabulation of Inteili genre reports from all corners of 'the world seemed to dissipate the theory that a German raider or submarine had again slunk into the western At lantic. So today many turned to th' theory that plotters within wreckei the engines, put out of commission th< wireless and somehow spirited the ship away to some out of the way port jor-scuttied her enroute to home port IDEMOCRAT “WANT ADS PAY BIG,

t, + 4444444444444 '♦ THEIR PART AND YOURS! 4 ♦ * '♦ (By Felix Bruner) 4 „' + Suddenly there came a dull 4 • 4 roar. The ship rocked, then list- 4 4 ed to one side. A thousand men 4 4 who had been lying awake fully 4 4 dressed with life preservers 4 4 about their waists, sprang to 4 + their feet. Orders were shout- 4 11 4 ed. Men sprang to the boats. 4 4 Sailors pulled on the ropes and + 1 4- loaded boats began to descend 4 ‘ + the ship. Meanwhile tile ship + s 4 continued to list; its bow sank 4 r 4 beneath the water. Suddenly it 4 I- 4 plunged. There were loud cries. 4 4 Men were struggling for their 4 i- 4 lives in tlie cold, dark, winter 4 4 sea. struggling against odds 4 - 4 which could not be overcome. 4 v 4 Next morning fishermen dis- 4 ] 4 covered lying in the sand along 4 4 the coast rigid bodies covered 4 ! 4 with the slime of the sea. wash- 4 4 ed up by the waves, more merci 4 4 ful than the Hun. that they might 4 . 4 be given the honor of the last 4 4 rites of heries. + 4 That is what they are doing 4 4 for their country. + 4 What are you doing. Mr. Man. 4 k above the military age? 4 4 They have given everything 4 4 they can give, all their rosy plans 4 4 for the future, all that they ex- 4 4 pected to do. all that they ever 4 4 hoped to become, they have giv 4 k en up to the cause of Liberty. 4 4 Uncle Sam does not ask you 4 4 to do this. He simply asks you 4 4 tc invest a few of your dollars 4 4 a sacrifice of sand is compared 4 4 with the universe. You are not 4 4 even asked to give up anything 4 4 You are simply asked to make 4 4 an investment in safe govern- 4 4 ment bonds, an investment that 4 4 should be considered as a 4 4 shrewd business move. 4 4 Could you do less? + 4 + 44 4 444444444 GOES TO PORTLAND George Cramer, son of Mr. and Mrs. U. E. Cramer went to Portland yesterday where he took a position as an assistant to Manager Earl Sehoenlein of the Morris five and ten cent store. Mr. Cramer accompanied his son there to see him established. — o 7 “Why Wrinkles Come Early’’ HEADACHE causes wrinkles at an early are. No pain is more vicious than heartache. CORNELISON’S HEADACHE LIVER PILLS will give you speedy relief and make more medicine unnecessary tomorrow'. They quickly relieve pain and contain a mild, sure laxative, which usually removes the cause. Price 10c. AT ALL''DRUGGISTS. — How to Regulate High Blood Pressure. A dollar laid out to aid health is not an expenditure, but a loan, which will be returned a hundred fold. Take San Yak. It prevents a boncy like hardening of tne arteries at ages past 50 years. Dr. Burnham's San Yak is the sure way to prevent Paralysis and Apoplexy, in its use you have prevented or cured bladder and kidney trouble. It is the greatest in use to prevent the clumsy stiff joints and for Neuritis or Rheumatism and Constipation. Mrs. Jemina Tickle, Celina, Ohio, (grandmother of Perry Baker, county treasurer). She is 90 years old and was subject to great dizziness and fainting spells, stiff and clumsy in the muscles, but after taking San fak is again in normal health, being able to do her own housework and washing. She says she can walk a mile with most of the young folks. Geo. W. Worden, Celina, Ohio, says: “Three years I suffered with high blood pressure. Rheumatism in mv back, flips, legs and shoulders. I could sleep only in one position. Since I took San Yai-'t can sleep well in any position. San Yak is a wonder for Kidney Trouble and certainly of great value for people of my age, 79 years.” G. W. Marks, of Montpelier, Ohio, says: “I took six bottles of San Yak about three years ago. I was suffers ing with great weakness due to kidney and bladder trouble. lam 73 years old and my health is fine since I took San Yak. It is a wonderful ’ regulator of the bowels.” Mrs. Allen Sailor, of Angola, says: "I have been troubled for years with dizziness and back trouble. After taking three bottles of San Yak, I i fee! like a new woman and want to . recommend it to everyone as a cure and worth a great deal more than you pay for it” J. B. Warden, of Angola, has this to say of San Yak: "I have been v troubled several years with bad heart <■ and stomach trouble. San Yak has squared me away and I believe it t would do the same for others if they i would try it. I surely feel fine." D. H. Janes, Homer, Michigan, 3 says: “I was greatly troubled for sure, short in breath, bad kidneys and c several years with high blood pres- . bladder trouble, dizzy, and sick. San Yak has done everything for me and K my health is fine at 72 years I can work with ease and comfort.” ■ A. H. Biair, Homer, Michigan. “Dear Doctor —Your San Yak did eve erything for me for kidney and blady der trouble. I can rest at night withe out inconvenience.” C. A. Van Riper, Hundson, Mich.: r “I was nearly dead from kidney <■ trouble, high blood pressure and ( l nerve (rouble. San Yak gave me a quick boost. I can safely retom--16 mend it. ie ‘“One tcaspoouful in glass of water f i half hour before breakfast beats all ' | antiseptics and tonics for the stem- ' ach. bowels and kidneys. I have tried ail kinds.” 5 SOLD BY SMITH, YAGER & FALK, Decatur, Indiana.

: THE FIRST HILF : OFCOUNTYQUOTA 4 £ Outside Districts Making Fine Showing, Excepth ing French Township. ► ► NOTICE TO WOMEN ► ► H Mrs. Knapp Urges Greater h • | Etl’ort—Women’s Contri- . bution Added to Total. I The following table shows the entire quota for each township and cor- , poratton together with the amounts , subscribed for up to last evening: , Townships Quota Sold , Union $ 20,250 $ 7,700 , Root 34.000 14.850 , Preble 26,250 7.100 Kirkland 22.600 13,250 Washington 27.600 5,850 St. Mary's, North.. 10.900 150 St. Mary's, South.. 9.250 2.050 Blue Creek 20.600 700 Monroe, North .... 21.200 1,650 Monroe. Middle ... 17.300 500 Monroe, Berne .... 35,800 21.200 French 22.200 1,550 Hartford 26.200 14,250 Wabash 31,000 18,350 Jefferson 19.450 8.750 Decatur. Ist A .... 9.200 16.650 Decatur. Ist B .... 9,200 4,700 Decatur. 2nd A .... 9.300 31.300 Decatur. 2nd B .... 9.300 3.300 Decatur, 3rd A .... 9.200 14.400 Decatur. 3rd B .... 9.200 3.900 Totals $400,000 192,150 The above total includes $51,300 reported by Mrs. Knapp, chairman of tlie woman's committee. To Women Workers. In some manner the report has bet n circulated in two or three townships that the work the women are doing in the Liberty Ixian drive will not be counted on the township's or county s quota. This is indeed a mistake. The woman’s organization is only trying to keep a definite record of all bonds sold by our women workers, but our one aim is to co-operate witli the men in. putting Adams county “over the top" with her $400,000 quota. We have tut our shoulders to the wheel in this grat campaign, only because Secretary McAdoo realized the importance of reaching all the women Ol the county, and so created the National Liberty Loan ojga-ji-zation. We are working as a part of that great organization, but all our efforts go to tlie credit of Adams county. So, women workers, please turn in to me all reports and applications as previously instructed and your township or town, as the case may be. will receive duo credit. FAYE SMITH-KNAPP Chairman Adams County Womens Liberty Ixian Committee. Met Last Night. The advisory committee met las‘ evening and discussed plans for con tinuing the drive to a successful close The reports from every township are fairly good with the of French where there seems to be but little interest. It is exacted that some other plans of working will be decided upon at a meeting to be hoi 1 tonight. Several of the townships are getting up towards the goal. When ever a township or district makes the gr <£.- they will be presented with a hanosome service flag by the United ' • States treasury department. ads PAY BIG.

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THE ROLL OF HONOR. Ll ,t of Buyer. Liberty Loa" Bond, in Adams County. DECATURFir.t Ward-Precinct A. Phoebe V. Hite Samuel Hite Oswald B. WemholT Mantle E. Erwin Kate Place Ella M. MasHonee Mrs Dorthy Conter Miss Kate Gin ley Fannie Frisinger Gipe Mrs. Sarah Krick Second Ward—Precinct A. Miss Leona Staffer Vera Hower Minnie C. Holthouse Junies Martin Westvolt Edith Smith Schrock Mrs. A. D.. Hunsicker Margaret Omlor Eleanor Omlor Harriet J. Wertzberger Albert Hunsicker j. C. Paterson Christian Pastoral Hel|>ers Miss Ix-ona Hunsicker Donald Hunsicker Miss Neva Hrandyberry Mrs. John Mosure Mrs. Cal Peterson Mrs. C. W- F. Davis Ethel Hale Smith Mrs V. J. Hyland Della Harruff Mrs H. M DeVoss Mis. John Everett Dina h. Smith Gertrude M. Smith I oreita Large Rose Kleinhenz Lillian Irene Buhler Second Ward—Precinct B. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Beery Matilda B Meibers Gerald Smith Mrs. Mary Gilpen Delle E. Sellemeyer Geraldine Smith Mrs. Fred Sellemeyer Louisa M. Hain Third Ward—Precinct A. Mrs. Ethel Fair Calvin R. Weaver Maude Dorwin Estella Coverdale Catherine Lanzel F. Tanvas Mrs. Otto Reppert Harold Wm. Hodgens Mrs. Alice Cowan Mrs. Barbara Kirsch Dore B. Erwin Elizabeth Peterson Mrs. Anna Vance Helena Holthouse Anna Elizabeth Atz Mrs. Marietta Beery J. O. Selemeyer Minnie Knapke Della Reppert Henry Schulte Jeanette Clark Hattie F. Lewton Mrs. C. S. Niblick Amelia Niblick Mary Niblick George Flanders Fred (’. Gall Mrs. C. L. Pinney Mary E. Artman Lenes W. Stolte Matilda Bleeke C. R. and J. Niblick Sarah Gerber . Mrs. Sterling Hoffman Lewis John Litterer Third Ward—Precinct B. Grace M. Hunsicker Germaine Christen Bernardine Christen Mrs. Charles Christen Kathryn L. Niblick Harold Niblick Margaret E. .Moran Elizabeth M. Lange Sarah J. Dixon Jessie E. Magley Sarah E. Roop Mrs. Martha Holsapple Minnie Weber Delina Elzey Mrs. L. c. Annen Mrs. Lena Frank Daniel D. Staler Miss Jennie Archbold H. N. Smith Mrs. James Archbold Sarah Williams Margaret Sphar Georgia Overton Minnie B. Reid David Parrish Mrs. Catherine Brake Margaret M. Moran Mrs. Dessa Moon Jeanette Thornburg Bertha B. Thornburg Nola J Archbold Mrs. Elsie Foley Edna A. Elzey Harold Magley , Mrs. Dora Bess John Fisher John Fisher Mrs. Lydia Worthmau Cora E. Blosser Mrs. Frances M. Leonard Emma Bogner Caroline L. Doak Emily J. Craig Mrs. Coat Cook UNION TOWNSHIP. Ollie D. Knittie Mary A. Knittie GoldieJV. Knittie

SHIRTS A man seldom has shirts enough. It wouldn’t do a bit of harm if you came in tomorrow and picked out a couple of good patterns before the best ones are gone. Choice lots like these get sorted over pretty quickly and we wouldn’t advise delaying your purchase too long. Prices SI.OO, $1.25, $1.50 and up to $5.00. HOLTHOUSE. SCHULTE & CO GOOD CLOTHES SELLERS FOR MEN AND BOYS

THRIFTY SOCIETY I The North Ward Schoo] I Has Invested Sum of ! $1,142.25 in [ —* |R the thrift stamps I Complimented by the Vice- I Director—Seventeen II New Members. I' The War Savings society of :h e H North Ward school has made a gziu 0 ( M seventeen member* in two weeks and IB a gain oi $137 iu money, making » hh total of »1142.25. |g The vice director of the war savings ra committee compliments them as fop M lows: 'The investment of over $1,900 IB in Thrift stamps is evidence that yon M are. indeed, a thrifty war-savings I ciety.” B The new members are: |3 Richard Smith, Naomi Stuffz. Don. || aid Farr. Howard Brumley, Richard II Miller, Helen Farr. Glen Beaver. II Roger Grove. Robert Macklin. Virginia II Steele, Calvert Ehrhart. Jane Wilson, I! Bernice Thornton. Charlotte Elzev. || Gladys Cook. Joe Connelley. Kutn || Thornton. Bl Total, sll <2.25; gain $137.00. | Mary A. Krueckeberg ■! Elva M. Barkley l| Marilynne Wherry B] Hattie Wherry, Bl Merle Fleming ■! John C. Fleming || Mrs. Frances Steiguieyer 11 Roy T. Meyers ~~ || Minnie C. Schafer 11 Martha Schanierloh l| Mrs. C. S Mumma I! Edna C. Fleming II Lucinda E. Fleming l| Josephus A. Fleming $ ■! Mrs. Nellie Walters I Adrian Schnepp I Mrs. Fannie Whittenbarger | Mrs. Emma Krueckeberg I James R. Crozier V Mary C. Erhardt fl Mrs. Bertha Spuller B Amelia F. Niblick B Mrs. Eva Mauller ■ Mrs. Rose Straub t I Christina Ulman ■ Evaline Steigmeyer I Mary Ulman ■ Malinda M. Ohler I Anna E Brodbeck ■ Frieda Barrone l| James Crozier Glen M. Knittie | ! FOUR MORE GO OVER « I (United Press Service) I Indianapolis. April 16 —(Special to Ij Daily Democrat) —The Liberty Ixirti || total for the seventh federal distri t I] reserve in Indiana at noon today was | $36,000,000. Twenty-five counties lia— | made their quota. The ones to go over I today were Henry, Rush. Dearborns I and Owen. | DANNY SHEA TO BE FREED I (United Press Service) I Leavenworth. Kansas. April I ispecial to Daiiy Democrati— Irani,. Shea, serving a five year term in the penetentiary for election frauds in Terre Haute. Ind., will lie released Thursday on perole granted by the attorney general, according to a report hero today. He was formerly Vigo county -h' r iff. ABOUT THE SICK Mi J. C. Moran went to Ft. Way i« to call on h"r daughter, Margaret ; the hospital. When Mr. Moran calk'd on her Sunday it was thought could not come home for ten dayShe had suffered an attack of the gni' last week and was quite ill. but is g ■' ting along nicely again. Mrs. C. A. Diollinger left for Al bany where she was called by the idnews of a daughter. Mrs. Bolerjack. WANTEIY To buy, two second hiud tents. • Inquire of J. F- Arnold. ‘phone 709.