Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 103, Decatur, Adams County, 30 April 1918 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Evary Evening Except Sunday by i The Decatur Democrat Company . JOHN H. HELLER Preeldent ARTHUR R HOLTHOUSE. Secretary - —r - - I Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier 10 Cent* 1 Per Year, by carrier *5 00 < Per Month, by mail 25 cents Per Year, by mail... 13 00 , Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice in Decatur, Indiana, ae second-class matter. Adams county was the fifty-sixth county in the state to report that the minimum quota of Liberty Bonds had been sold and that the desired goal was reached. This morning there were stiil eleven counties in the state that had not reached the top. We knew Adams county would be among the good ones. The Liberty Loan campaign closes this week. Adams county will hare done her duty in this cause and will be ready, with her thousands of patriotic citizens to get into the campaigns with the same determined effort and enthusiasm as heretofore shown to send her over the top in the drives for funds for the Knights of Columbus War Camp Activities, the Red Cross, V. M. C. A., selling Thrift Stamps aqd in answering the many other, requests made during these war times. The spirit shown in this county is the kind that makes the Kaiser jealous and shows him the hand writing on the wall. Sure we a: going to keep it up Within the past few weeks your undivided attention has been more nr less devoted —according to your patriotism —to the cause of the Liberty Loan campaign and in helping Adams county "go over the top." Interest in the selling or buying of War Savings and Thrift Stamps has somewhat been neglected as a result, but with the closing of the Liberty Loan drive this week, you should again tiegin to take your share of the savings stamps. From the latest report sent out by the War Savings committee. Adams county has sold twenty-six thousand dollars worth of stamps, against her assessment of over four hundred thousand. The per capita allotment for Indiana is twenty dollars. If you have your dollars invested in Liberty Bonds, invest your pennies and small change in War Savings Stamps. It's for the same worthy cause The Berne Witness announced yesterday announced that with Monday’s paper, the German page, heretofore run. would be discontinued and that beginning with the Wednesday issue the publication would be printed entirely in the English language. In commenting on their change, they state: "This action is taken, not because we were forced to, or even asked to, but we feel that it is advisable to discontinue the page, inasmuch as the Witness is essentially an English language newspaper and only con- -

. VV e are showing 500 snatches of woolens from which you can select your spring suit and have it tailored to your measure. < $22.00 to $35.00. ffrr.c —— THE MYERS-DAILEY COMPANY

I taimd the German department to ac- , commodate some of the |>eople in the community who had difficulty in read-*’ ing the English. Since the act of con 1 gresf of October (>, 1917, we have been ' II obliged to file a true translation of' .-very bit of news of the German language that contained any reference to the world war. Since it is almost impossible to print these days with out some allusion to the war. it always necessitated the filing of a translation. We feel that those people of the community who want to read the world news in the German language, can get them in entirety by subscribing to some daily or weekly German language newspaper. Other wise there practically never appeared any German news in the Witness columns except the locals translated, and as far as these ar concerned, we feel, the people will ad.’tst themselves to the new program qu.'.c readily. Our action is not intended to cast any reflection on the German language. It is simply a matter -ot meeting circumstances and conditions such asthey have never existed before, and making the best of things. We crave the indulgence of all our German-speaking friends, and promise that we will try as sincerely as ever to make the Witness a live, clean newspaper for this community gsXKß3WXssSESnsss»ssscMßs33i < JSOCIE.TY j WEEKLY SOCIAL CALENDAR T uesday. 1 Ever Ready Class Social-M. E. ■* Church. Wednesday. Concord Aid —Mrs. C. D Kunkel. Community Red Cross Sewing Club —Ed Spangler Home. Thursday. Walther la-ague—At Schoolhouse, r Christian Brotherhood—V. C. Knepper. Friday. Pocahontas Needle Club —At Hall. Christian Pastoral Helpers —Mr. ( Will Engle. Reformed Ladies at Red Cross Work Shop. i "When you are in the down-and-out-club. a friend is one who will ‘ give you the first aviation push." i —Sophia Helen Loeb. The Christian Pastoral Helpers will meet with Mrs. Will Engle on Line ■ street Friday afternoon, instead of with Mrs. J. E. Anderson as at first announced. The Pocahontas Needle Club which postponed its meeting last week on account of the ilness of a member, will meet Friday of this week instead. Many of the members of the local Pocahontas council w ill go to Bluffton Wednesday noon to attend the district convention. A ready response is lieing made to the plea for old jewelry and metal objects for the Red Cross melting pots placed in the various stores. Several of the melting pots have been filled to over-flowing and it has been necessary to empty some of them more than once to find room for the contributions Remember to bring yours the next time you "come to town." The Ever Ready class of the Methadist Sunday school announces a social for this evening at the M. E church. There will be a good program and following this, a delicious supper, : eash ip-in -of which will cost two cents, will be provided. The program which begins at 7:30 is as follows: Music, Men’s quartet: talk. I>an Erwin; singing. the class: reading. Gertrude Yager; talk. R. <’. Parrish; song. Cecil Andrews; talk. Dr. S. P. Hoffman, "The Story of Marcus Hebble;’’ song. I "America,” the audience. Mr«. Stella Crist and son. Homer' Knodle, entertained at six o'clock dinner last evening for Mrs. Lulu P. Chestline, of Marion; and Mrs. A. i). Artman. Mrs Chestline is grand warden of the Rebekah Assembly and attended the anniversary celebration at the local I. O. O. F hall last even-i ing. taking part in the program by giv--ing several readings. The Walther league will meet at the Zion Lutheran parochial schoolhouse Thursday evening. deserter caught (Continued from Page Ona) i pilaltty of th< home as such. Yesterday aft'-rnoon while all the members of the family were away except the crißPled eighteen year old daughter, t who has been in poor health. Eschupp i returned to the house and at this ifnje r the assault was committed. The gi> 1 J

I succeeded in calling her father on the telephone and also the neighbors who. were attracted to the home by the noise and outcries The officers were, notified and began the hunt at once | for Eschttpp who had succeeded ml making his getaway. He had walked to Geneva and after an all-night hunt on the part of Marshal Arch Lase r.ej found the boy this morning waiting at. the water tank on the G. R. & 1. rail ( road a mile and a half north of Geneva waiting to catch a G. R. A I- freight train to hurry him away. At the preliminary hearing this morning he pleaded guilty and was bound over to the Jay circuit court and will have a hearing next Monday Last night Marshal Hancher of this city was notified by the Portland marshal to be on the look-out for a deserter in uniform who was headed this way and this morning there were tak en into custody two soldier boys from Camp Shelby who were beating theit way to their homes at Fort Wayne and another nearby town. They were picked up at the Krick-Tyndall tile sac tory but were soon released It was found that neither was the one wanted at Portland. ■. . ■l-0—■ itoitrt l 5 Almond McGill. 17, son of Albert McGill. was arrested on a charge of forging a chec k on Davis Dailey for five dollars and passing the same to Cecil Melchi at the William Cavadas place of business. The case was filed in the circuit court and the charge was I made by Marshal Hancher Api'earance of Peterson A Moran fur Will Hammel! in the state ra r against him was withdrawn and appearance for him was entered by Attorney Shafer Peterson, instead It was the will of Vrs Minger. instead of Mrs. Minger. that was probat ed. details of which were published yesterday. Clyde Strait, of Hartford City, state accountant, left today for Bluffton, where he will lie employed With others, he has been working here since January 16 going over the liooks of the county, city. town, township and school boards for a year; and over those of the surveyor for four year-. Working with him were G. Cal Shultz, of Union City: and Al Donaldson, of Indianapolis, the last named being a s] ecial accountant. A marriage license was issued to Raymond Marquart. of Bobo, born December 24. 1891, son of Jack E. Marquart. to wed Leon* Rash, bom August 22, 1895. daughter of Isaac Rash, of Bobo. Harry E. Fetters today tok out papers as administrator of the estate of his fa'her. the late Charles Fetters. The personal property of the estate is estimated at SI,OOO and real estate a $27,000. and heirs listed are the widow and three sons. Harry E.. Martin and Charles C. Fetters.—Bluffton News. Mr. Fetters died here suddenly two weeks ago of apoplexy. He was one of the owners of the Bluffton Hoop Mill located here. Real estate transfers: Trustees M. R E cemetery to Benjamin Flueckinger. lot in M. R. E. cemetery. SSO. Articles of incorporation of the F. L Mercer Lumber Company f>r SIO,OOO. with principal offhes at Bluffton. have been filed in the county recorder's office. Tomorrow is the last day for filing bills with the county auditor for allowance by the county commissioners at their May meeting. TO FORT THOMAS WEDNESDAY Five more men of the Adams county quota will leave tomorrow for Foit I Thomas. Ky, over the G. R. & 1. railroad at 1:05 p. m. The five men are: Henry Huser. Berne; Herman Husei- | man. Berne: Fred A. Jackson. Dec t- , tur; Franklin (’. Chronister. Decatur: Ora. Lobsiger, Monroe. Substitutes are: Meno S. Hirschy. Berne and Edwin M. Adler. Decatur. Ray K. Hamrick, of Decatur, is al.-.o a member of the contingent ami is located in the west. He will go to Camp Funston The band lioys will I meet at the hall and escort them to the train. __ CARD OF THANKS. Mrs. Nellie Gabriel, the mother, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gillig. the uncle and aunt of Florence Gabriel. wfco ,r> death occurred recently, express their sincere thanks to all who were so kin I to them tend to her during her illne-c and/at the time of her death. i - n BOY IS BORN I A boy baby was born this morning at seven o’clock to Mr. ami Mrs. Chas. Miller, residing at the corner ot N'u’.tman Avenue and Seventh street, Mrs. . Miller was Miss Bertha Steigmeyer. ,

HINDENBURG SUFFERS ' IN COUNTER-ATTACK I ' s I — 1 I (Continued from Page One) t dets, failed to develop any infantry j .action. | The allies appear to retain the in (ittative in Picardy, as is shown by 1 l Haig’s anouncement that the Brit- i ish yestreday advanced their lines slightly east of Villers Bretonneux This village, which is about eight 1 miles east of Amiens, has changed 1 hands several times. (By J. W. T. Mason. United Press , (War Expert) New York. N. Y, April 30 —(Spe- , ciai to Daily Democrat'—The Ger- , man check before Ypres is the most 1 ( decisive Von Hindenburg has suffered since the beginning ot his efforts ’ t<> reach Flanders plains preparatory ( 1 for a major advance to the channel i | ports. I i The ability of the allies to withstand the- shock of the German mass- ( ed attacks without calling upon their, ! reserves has been demonstrated J' Hindenburg will try perhaps two or three times more to break through j | If. however, the northern front holds I fast as it has done in the past twen ; ty four hours, the German army must ' b> gin its process of recuperation. I ' f-p ed with defeat at a long distance from the channel. The quick determination of yester- J d- s a-., nit on the outer defenses i ot Ypres demonstrates more than any , o>ner occurrence of the past five j . weeks that Hindenburg fears the ap-■ ; proach of exhaustion of his offensive p >wer. At uc other time since the ( German advance began has Hinden 1 b rg directed the cessation of a, large scale attack before some slight advantage had been won. Washington, D. C„ April 30—(Special to Daily Democrat I—Fifty-eightl—Fifty-eight casualties listed by the war department today showed two deaths in ac--1 tion. two from accident, six from dis- , ease, five severely wounded, forty-' two slightly wounded and one missing in action.. i (By Ed L. Keen. United Press Staff Correspondent) London. April 30 —(Special to Daily I Democrat) —The only scraps of news ' tending to bear out the rumors of a Russian counter-revolution, so far. i . are in the reports from Zurich re I ’ garding the arrest of M. Putiloff and . Baron Von Bussche— Haddenhaussen's strange wireless to General Von Mirbach. ' A Zurich dispatch says it is learned from Petrograd that M. Putiloff. president of the International bank at Vichni Gradsky. has been arrest-. . ed on a c harge of financing a monarchist c ounterrevolution. Putiloff is said to have escaped. • The British admiralty has made public a wireless dispatch from Berlin stating that Bussche-Haddenaus-sen—the under secretary for foreign affairs sent a wireless to Mirbach. the new German ambassador to Russia, asking him to report concerning rumors of a monarchic-tic restoration in Petrograd. Bussche-Haddenhaussen said he ' had received a letter from Petrograd dated April 13. stating that a monarchist proclamation was imminent and that Michael RocUianko. Michael Alexiff. Alexander Gutchkoff and Paul Milinkiff were in Petrograd. These four were identified with the Kerensky regime. Authorities agree in view of Joseph Shaplen’s dispatch to the United Press regarding Trotsky's attempt to reorganize a Russian army, that Ger.many would be greatly interested in stirring up trouble in Petrograd—possibly going so far as to back the monarchists. The kaiser may even I

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Dayton. Ohio. July 17, 1917. To Whom It May Concern: In December. 1912, I was the vici tim of a stroke of paralysis, the en- , tire left side being affected. After more than four years of suffering, ’ during the greater part of which [ time I was under a physician’s care. , 1 was advised by au old-time friend (name furnished upon requesti to try Hull’s Superlative Compound. Representative oi the Hull remedy had arranged with the Dayton News for an advertising campaign, and had. of course, explained the benefits to be derived from its use. and. 1 knowing my physical condition, my friend asked them to call on me. He told them that “if yon can put Murray on his feet you will have done a wonderful thing." That’s , what Hull’s Superlative Compound I did put me on my feet. | When 1 started taking Hull’s I ' quit my physician. Several weeks later I met him on the street, anti he greeted me with: "Well, you sure do not look like a dead man.” The day my friend told me about I Hull’- 1 had met him at Fifth and M Ludlow, and had asked bar and re-11 ceived his assistance in getting |1

have a finger In the mess. , 1 The presence of allied represent®-J tives at the Moscow meeting tends J to confirm recent reports that Trotsky was “coming around to the side: of the allies." which is the most fa-j foi able news from Russia in a long time. Paris, April 30—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The long range liombard ment of Paris was continued today. London, April 30 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—All American wounded in France will in the future be brought to England it was learned here today. A 3.(hhi bed hospital in Liverpool is in ch -.rge of the Ame ric an Red < ross. with a staff of American doctors, an I attendants. This is designed to relieve the hospital congestion in France. Amsterdam. April 30 (Special to Daily Democrat I -r- German cavalry has been observed at Essdhen. according to reports received today. Coi-enhagen. April 30—(Special to DatV Democrat)—A food famine ’n Cracow is causing the most serious riots, the Vorwaerts declares. Reports that Jews were hoarding food resulted in mobs plundering stores and killing several citizens who attempted to calm them. No one is allowed in streets after 7 o’clock in the evening. Cracow is a city in Galicia and formerly was the capital of Poland. It has i a population of about 100,000. Washington. April 30 —(Special to 1 Daily Democrat)—A. S. Edwards, Augusta. Ga, member of the gun crew and two members of the ship’s crew were killed March 21 when the American steamship Chincha had a running fight with a large enemy submarine. The U-boat after thirty shots had j been exchanged, was forced to submerge. the navy department announced. The Chincha had her first experience •vith U-boats when she was I attacked January IS. Stockholm. April 30 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—The “counterrevolution” in Petrograd has pronounced the Brest-Litovsk peace pact “unacceptable" and has demanded a new treaty by which Esthonia will remain under Russian rule, according to the A-fton Bladget, which declares it | learned this from Finnish sources. Washington. April 30—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Uruguayan Minister C; rlos De Pena died in a hospital here today after a brief illness. He was a pall bearer at the funeral of Chilean Minister Aldunate who died suddenly two weeks ago. De Pena became ill the same day. I PRESIDENT GlVEn'thE POWER. '.(By C. Martin. United Press Staff Corespondent) Washington, D. C., April 30—(Special to Daily Democrat)—With passage by the senate of the Overman “empowering” bill, a clean-cut victory for President Wilson, republicans today declared they have yielded their last ground. As the measure proceeded to the house today, where it will be passed without, long debate or tremendous opposition, republican leaders indicated they would fight through the Bummer and coming winter before (granting further broad and unspecified powers to the president. The adminstration victory on the Overman bill was clean-cut. On the final vote. 63 to 13, those who opposed the bill were: Republicans—Brandegee, Cummins. Dillingham. France. Gallinger. Harding. Johnson, California; Knox. Poindexter, Sherman, Sterling. Sutber- ; land. ' Democrats—Reed

across the street to my office. Many Dayton friends know what my physical condition was several - months ago. and they know 7 what it is now. Hull’s Superlative Com- . pound is entirely responsible for mv i present greatly improved physical . condition. I am out hustling every I, day. and am confident that within ’ the next few weeks will be entirely well _E. B. Murray. Business Manager The Labor Review. What this remedy did for Mr. Murray it should do for you. The first dose usually prove* its marvejoujhealing power. Hull’s Superlative is nature's great remedy, made from roots, barks and one berry For twenty years it has produced truly astonishing results when taken for rheumatism. colds, grip, tonsolitis stomach, kidney and bladder trouble’ dropsy, paralysis, infantile paralysis’ ets. Hull’s Superlative is sold by all druggists on a ixmitive monev-back guarantee, and any man or woman who is sick or ailing—no matter what the condition or how serious—should dose no time in faking this prepara- i tion. for if it does not help you your I money will be returned.

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