Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 146, Decatur, Adams County, 20 June 1918 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRAT/ ■ uumjimbi -»'* wtgxy —-- - —’ y Publlrtad Every evening Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company t JOHN H. HBLLER President < ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Secretary Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier 10 Cents Per Year, by carrier 15.00, Per Month, by mail 26 cents <1 Per Year, by mall 13 00 g Single Copies 2 cents . Advertising rates made known on t application. - Entered at the postotflee In Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. , MR. CONTER AS THE NOMINEE— Herman L. Corner, an Adams coun- 1 ty man was honored at the democratic state convention yesterday, by be- 1 Ing selected as the nominee to head 1 the state ticket, the candidate for secretary of state. His selection came after a spirited contest against Judge Dupree of Johnson county. Mr. Conler s nomination being made by a ma- [ jority of 219 votes and was made unanimous on motion by Judge Du--1 ree before the vote was announced. The honor is the more appreciated because victory followed a contest moat tirteresiing with all the angles of a political battle and because Mr Conter’s support came largely front men from all over the state who recognized his ability to serve the state as secretary. ■ * < He will be elected we believe • and he will prove a most efficient offiiCei. He served six years as deputy secretary and is acknowledged to have been the most competent officer who has filled that position in many years He has a wonderful personality, is courteous and obliging, works with a smile and has all the requisites of a splendid candidate. Mr t'onter is a native of Atlants county, was torn in Decatur fifty years ago and has spent the greater part of his life here. He has hail a number of years’ experience as a banker and for a long time has been engaged in the ice cream manufac turing business. He is an expert accountant. a good business man and a good mixer among men. He should have the heartiest suport in this coun ty and will receive it we do not doubt and he will serve the people of Indiana as secretary in the same high class manner he served them as deputy in that office under Mr. Elltngham and Mr. Cook. * The democratic state" - convention held yesterday was one <ff the most enthusiastic ever held in Indiana, a war convention. with wonderful speeches and cheering that fairly raised the roof. Vice President Mar shall as temporary chairman and former Governor Ralston as permanent chairman stirred the delegates and the crowd with their eloquent addresses. Congressman Scott Ferris of Oklahoma told them surprising facts about the things done by the administration towards the winning of the war. It was a scene worth while and the convention was completely anti entirely satisfactory. With the splendid Fred VanNuys as state chairman. a live wire in the right place, the democracy of Indiana is going out to win and they will do it. Don't,get any thing else in your head or you will have to change your views after next N'overmber's contest. The ticket named is a high class one from first

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to hist and the candidates are men who will make the proper effort to get the votes, the platform is one that every good citizen can and ought to support and It remains only to complete the organization every where that the national administration may be supported. j i 1 t’ongressnian Scott Ferris of Oklahoma. one of the leaders of congress, delivered a most interesting speech at the democratic state convention, in which lie showed just what military equipment this nation had Apt ,1 sth. 1917 and what, it has now Hi gave the official figures and some ol them were surprising indeed. He said that we now have more than 800.000 men in France and by July 4th will have more than a million. We have 6.000 airplanes, the greatest tleet of ships in the world. a wonderful army and navy, more than 4"o hospitals and we have taken the best care of our men tn history, so good that the death rate in the army is less than in private life. Mr Ferris paid ’the highest compliments to the administration and his speech should I he read by every one Claude Bowers, brilliant and popu lar editorial writer of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette served as chairman of the resolutions committee at the state convention and by his splendid work in that important place, further popularized himself among the democratic workers and the people of In ■diana. He is of the kind of stuff that 1 is needed, fair minded, vigorous, industrious. splendid and the future holds for him whatever he may care s to ask from the voters of the great * hoosier state. ‘ Arc you planning to make the 1 Thrift. Stamp campaign a success? In 1 every county in the state preparations are toing made to secure ’ pledges that will guarantee the quota for the county. Adams county dare not and will not falter. Will you do 1 your share towards making a record ' in this war work that will keep us on 1 the map? society! WEEKLY SOCIAL CALENDAR Thursday. 1 Ic-Nick Naomi Gass. D. Y. B.—Mrs. Ves Baker. , Walther League—at School House. Christian Pastoral Helpers’ Social Mrs J E. Anderson. i Mt. Pleasant Mite- Mrs. Ernest t Tumbleson. L Silent Workers ('hiss —Mrs. Rosa ! Hays. Baptist Missionary — Mrs. Jacob Buhler. Friday. Dorcas ( lass —Mrs. C. F, Hocker. Phllathea Class Mrs. Martin Goff. Never judge a man by his relations; but rather by his companions. His relations are forced on him. while his companions are his own choosing Benj Frankln The Berne Witness says: After keeping their marriage secret since May 4. the secret was finally made known, when Mr. and Mrs. Frank ('. Foreman of Berne announced tlu marriage of their daughter Treva Ma to Homer H. Knodle of Decatur. Tim wedding took place at Jackson. Mich., on May 4 and was successfully kept a secret For some time there hr.d been rumors that there would he i wedding, but the announcement that the wedding had already taken place' was a great surprise indeed. The bride is a daughter of Mr. ami Mrs. Frank (’. Foreman and is well and favorably known. For a number of years she worked at the Berne telephone exchange. latter she took a| business course at Imlfcinapolts and i has since been emnloyed in the office' ' of the Herne Overall & Shirt. Co. The groom is a well known newspaper man of Decatur and has many friends here. The couple expects to go to housekeeping in the near future. Ttio Witness congratulates.” Here are three lunches which were' served to representatives of the wc-j mens clubs who met at Hot Springs,l Arkansas. The menus were worked; out in co-operation with the United States Food Administration: I Strawberries. baked stuffed with cream cheese sauce browm d sweet potatoes, new string touns. I fee. 2. —Fresh vegetable melange, I spoon bread with cottage dice e, stufferj tomato salad, baked note. ( tilyfard "olTeo. 3.—Bouillon, fish

with hominy. Arlington tomatoes, rtcc flour biscuits, camouflage cream, war cakes, coffee Scotch Oat CrackAirs. F. V. Mills ajid Mrs. John Vail loft yesterday afternoon for Winona latke to attend a mid year meeting if the executive board of the conferem e Womans Home Mission society of the M. E church. The Dorcas class will meet at the home of their teacher. Mrs. F Hocker. Friday evening The Phoebe Bible class of the Reformed Sunday school held its regular meetlag with Mr*. Elgin King last evening. The presence of twen-ty-one made it very Interesting and enthusiastic The devotional* and tr.t triotic song service opened the same and later games and amusements were in order The society will have a picnic supper for its July session, at the home of Tillman Gerber iu the ■ country ers —Two cups rolled oats. ’< cup 1 milk. cup molasses. I’4 tablespoon fat. L teaspoon soda. 1 teaspoon sal*. Grind or crush the oats and mix with , the other materials. Roll out in a ( thin sheet and cut in squares. Bake for 20 minutes in a moderate oven. This recipe makes 3 dozen crackers. 1 Baken Honey Custard—Beat 33 eggs slightly, taking care not to make them foamy. Add slowly *1 cun honey. 2 cups scalded milk. *4 teaspoon powdered cinnamon and % teaspoon salt. Bake in cups which 1 should to set in a pan of water. ' War Cakes—H cup fat. % cup sugar. I 3 eggs. 1 cup syrup Y* cup milk. 1 ■ teaspoon vanilla. 1 teaspoon salt. •> teaspoons baking powder. teaspoon ginger. 1 teaspoon cinnamon, Lj teaspoon cloves, 1 teaspoon allspice, 3% cups Itarley flour. 1 cup raisins. Cream the fat. sugjir and egg yolks. Add the syrup and mix . well. Add alternately the milk with the vanilla, and the dry ingredients sifted together. Add the raisins and fold in the well beaten egg whites. Bake in small tins. Mrs. C. A. Dugan and daughli rs gave a dinner party in compliment to Mrs. Oren Smith and daughter, of ’ Indiana)K.*lis: Miss Bess Schrock, of Wabash; Mrs. A. J Smith. Miss . Mary Fonner, Mrs Jessie Beam and Mrs. F. E. France. I The Fort Wayne Journal Gazeti says: “Rabbi Weinstein officiated at 'he marriage of Miss Ellen Mull and Bert Secanoff at Ach-futh Vesaho’m I temple at S o'clock Tuesday afternoon i The bride, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. i Nafihan Mull, of Monroeville, was atI tired tn light blue georgette crepe. ■ and was attended by an intimate friend from Chicago, Miss Belle Wood Roy Kalver. of Decatur, attended th' 1 groom. Guests at. th*- ceremony ami at the wedding dinner which followed. were Mrs, Nathan Mull Mr. and • Mrs. A. B Mull. Mr. and Mrs. I. A. 1 Kalver. of Decatur, and Mrs. 1. B. .'.lax. of Crleago.” t Mrs. Charles Nyffler. Jr.. Mrs. Otto ( Kirsch. Mrs. Frank McConnell and Mrs. Oscar Fritzinger entertained the ( Reformed Ladies’ Aid society at the Nyffler home in the country, yesterday afternoon, conveyances taking the thirty-five or forty members there. The collection was S2B 66. Mrs Tillman Gerber has spoken for the July meeting at iter home near ffreble. Dr. and Mrs. Fred Patterson gave a six o'clock dinner party last evening for Mrs. Oren Smith of Indianapolis; Miss Bess Schrock, of Wabash; , Miss Annette Moses; Mr. ami Mis. , J. ('. Patterson anti daughter. Marls. Mrs. Robert Harding, of Ft. Wayne entertained at a noon luncheon Wednesday for Mrs. Oren Smith and small daughter. Helen, of indlana|»ll..; Miss Bess Schrock, of Waitash: Mrs. XV. P. Schrock. Mrs. A. J. Smith and Miss Dorothy Dugan, of this city. Charlotte and Margaret Niblick gave a lawn party yesterday afternoon on the (’. D. Niblick homo (grounds for littie Miss Catherine Moohr. of Los Angeles, the oceasl.m being her sixth birthday anniversary. | Out door games ami amusements (were enjoyed, the neighborhood little girls being present. (COURT) snKnjanHtanuxisiyjyiaatxmMM p The Fort. Wayne Journal Gazette J.ublishes notice of the issuance of a .marriage license to Henry F. Buft'eujbarger, foreman, to Emma Bushong. (This is the couple who were refused ;a license here yesterday because he bride did not live in this county. | A marriage license was granted to Rudolph Atigtr.t Worthmann. minisiter, born .lnb 7. 1893. son of Henry M’orthuianu. to w-.-d Miiideb Reppert. [horn October 21. 1801. daughter of! j Christ Iteppert. of Mugiey. | Mouc., Burk aged twelve, will be returned this afternoon to bis family '

home at Huntington, to which they .'moved from here last March The , .'child is a son of Ar, h Burk, formerly of Decatur. Two days ago he told his , 1 stoat he was going to a farm to , work In the onion fields He did so. j and finished there last evening. He ' decided he wanted to come here ami pick cherries and so rode over pi a , truck. This was the story he told ( between sobs as he sat in a chair in the sheriff’s office this afternoon. He h..d been taken into custody by local officials on advice from the Hunting ■ ton authorities. His family became . alarmed ’ Real estate transfers: Rosina Munz et al to James O'Dair. et al. 40 acres 1 of Union township. $4700. • O' I Yanks Squeeze Germans Who Flee Id Disorder (Continued from Page One) ) tohalf of th”2s.6iio members was i adopted, addressed to the president and pledging the support of the ai souiation in the prosecution of the 1 war to victory. liondon. June 20 —(Special to Dally Democrat) —An unusual phase of the Austrian offensive is the capture >f 9.000 prisoners, announced by the ( Italian war office. This is regarded as unique in defensive fighting. The situation today as indicated 1 by the latest reports was regarded as continuing favorably for the Italians. . The fighting in the mountain re . gion is still comparatively light, while the Italians are blocking every effort of the enemy to extend. his gain.along the river Areas. The Austrian war office reported the extension oi I artillery fighting westward to include ( the Tyrolese front. 1 With the Italian Armies in the Field. June 20—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The elements are aiding the Italians. Heavy rains in the mountain re “ gions have changed the Piave from a t sluggish stream to a running flood, de ' stroying bridges and cutting off Alts f trian forces on this side of the river - form their source of supplies and re- < intorcements. British airmen retort that 12 of the 14 bridges flung across the Piave by tho enemy have been carried away. Tiapped on the west bank. Austrian 1 detachments are subjected to almost 1 constant, mauling by the Italian ar 1 tillery and bombs dropped by allied ' airmen, with no avenue of escape. Frantic, efforts to restore the pop- ' toons so far have been frustrated by the swollen current and the accuracy 1 of the Italian artillery. The enemy's losses on all parts of 1 the front in the first three days of the offensive are now estimated at 1 150.000. The heaviest fighting is still around the bridgehead the Austrian have established on the lower Piave. from , where they are trying to push we»t---1 ward towards Venice. The enemy e now holds the west bank of the river s from Mazrada to Fossalta and San Dona Di Piave, a front of IS kilometj era (about 12 miles.l s Austrian artillery is touring thousands of poison, tear, emetic and r mustard gas shells into the rear areas r S< hio. Bassano. Asolo and Treviso have thus been rendered practically uninhabitable. 'T’ MRS. BUSCH WAS LIBERAL tt T ni.e<l Press Service) Key West. Fla., June 20—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Retorts that Mrs. Adolphus Busch had given a million dollars to the German Red , Cross during her recent visit to Germany. were emphatically denied by Henry Hawes, her attorney, in a I statement made previous to the departure of the Busch party for St. Louis late last night. i Hawes declared that Mrs. Busch . had given one hundred thousand dol- , lers to the American Red Cross and . had bought one million dollars worth i of the first liberty loans issues. He also stated that she had given SIOO,- ( 000 to the Young Men’s Christian as- . soelation and upon her arrival at Madrid. Spuin. had given a thousand dollars to the Red Cross, through Mrs 1 Roosevelt, daughter of American Am- | bassador 'Willard. TAKES CREAM*" TESTER'S 'EI. ’ Miss Alma Brown, In charge of the Martin-Klepper branch cream station, i on E. yonroe street, went to Fort ■ Wayne, to take examination for a . license as cream tester. This Is g|. I ven In charge oi the Purdue agricul- . tural extension department. Mrs. Sylvia Stevens was in charge of the • ream station bram h in her absence. NEPHEW IS DROWNED Mrs. Charles Fisher of toit yve ;t ! [Adams street, has just returned front la visit that (Moved not a pleasant one pviilie with u sister. Mrs. George Miehl. at .Springfield. 0. and Mrs. Lizzie Dobbs, of Pitcliin, 0.. they I

'were called to Dayton. Q.. by the death of Georgia Ross, son of their brother in law and sister. Samuel mid Oda Ross, of Fort Wayne, formerly of this city. The body was drowned in the Niami river while canoeing June 6. Mrs George Mielils. of Spying field. O : Clyde Daugherty and Samuel Rosa, of Fort Wayne were among those who attended the funeral. wisTERN UNION IN BAD (United Tress Service) Washington. June 20 —(Special to Daily Democrat l The government to dgv arrested five Western I nioii meesengers in Washington. Baltlnfore Philadelphia. New York and Boston, securing evidence to support a charge that the Western Union was o]»orating illegal competition with the post office and In operating of the postal revenue laws by, delivering night letters and messages, by train. It is alleged that the Western pt Him has been accepting so, called night letters for filing by wire, charging wire rates and then delivering them by messengers between these five large cities. Thousands of these letters have been delivered by suitease instead of wire nightly for weeks it is stated. CHURCH PICNIC SUNDAY The annual picnic of the Preble Lutheran church will he held Sunday in the William Grote grove one-half mile north of Preble. A program'will | be given by the children and the us-i ual good time assured. The public is , invited. ' AT EVANGELICAL CHURCH Atention is again called to the food conservation meeting at the Ei angelical church this evening. A good program will be given. AVIATORS FALL TO DEATH (United Press Service) Dayton. 0.. June 20 —(Special to Daily Democrat)-vLieut. Frank Stuart Patterson. 22. of this city and Lieut. Leroy Swan of Norwich. Conn., were instantly killed last evening when the airplane they were testing, crumpled at an altitude of 15,000 feet and crashed to earth. Both of the victims were expert airmen and high y regarded by officers and men at Wilbur Wright field Patterson, a graduate of Yale, was a nephew of John H. Patterson of cash register fame.

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TWO MEN ENLIST Harold Reeves. Geneva and Daniel Falk. Decatur have enlisted through the local board for the special mechanical training course to be given at Valparaiso university. Adams county's quota of the call is four men and volunteers wanted for this service. One man is also wanted for a similar course to be given at Rich-

mond. Ind. Registrants have until June 21st to enlist with the local board. NO SWIMMING AT POOL As the municipal swimming pool is not completed the city has forbidden ■any bathing in the pool untii further notice. Boys kindly take warning