Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 177, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1918 — Page 1

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ALLIES ENVELOPE POCKET IN BIG SWEEP

TAKING MANY VILLAGES ALONG NORTHERN CORVE FRANCO-«MERICAH ARMIES ARE NEAR FISMES—BIG ARMY IS STILL IN THE POCKET—SIMMS SAYS GERMANY MAY BE SLUFFING—BANKERS AID CHINA. I (United Press Service) London, .July 29—(4:22 p. m.)—The Germans are defending Ville-en-Tardenois, strongly resisting on the Marne from t'hambrecy southward, it was learned authoritatively this afternoon. | The boche also attacked allied positions on Hill 181, south- : west of Rheims, but were repulsed. Fighting there is continuing- 1 The Germans are reported to be burning the villages on a line between Fismes and Soissons. t Paris, July 29—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Sweeping northward from the Ourcq, French and American troops are now | within a few miles of Fismes, the important German concentra- , tion center on the Vesle river. Desperate fighting is under way in the new pocket between , the Ourcq and the Vesle, where the Germans are strongly covering the retreat to the later line. , t In some places the Americans and French have pushed several miles beyond the Ourcq. (By Lowell Mellett, United Press Staff Correspondent) ’ With the French Armies in the Field, July 29—(Special to Dailv Democrat)—The Germans are fighting desperately to retard the Franco-American advance northward from the Ourcq. Repeated - enemv counter-attacks on Sergy last night and early today resulted in the village changing hands several times, but remaining in the hands of the French. South of Sergy the Prussian guard division attacked the Americans, who firmly held their lines and inflicted enormous losses* Newly-won French positions north of Fere-en-Tardenois are established. The French captured much material, including a number of large guns. Both artilleries are engaging in a terrific dual along the southern end of the salient. In addition, the Germans are dropping huge quantities of gas shells into the Marne-Ardre valley. London, July 29—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Allied troops are fighting in the southern outskirts of Ville-en-Tardenois. the principal (Ferman defensive point on the southeastern edge of the Soissons-Rheims salient, it was learned authoritatively this aftern°o,Grand Rozoy, on the western edge of the pocket, has been captured and Franco-American troops have progressed several miles northwest of the village.

(By William P. Simms, United Press staff correspondent) With the British Armies in France, j u ly 29—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Barring the worst hard luck imaginable for the allies, the German army never again will be able to drive forward with the punch they carrried with the opening of the 1918 drive last March. • Evidence in the hands of the British army shbws that General Ludendorff fears political results from home

+ + * + + 44 + 4-44 + 44 *. LIGHTLESS NIGHTS. + ♦ * ♦ Under orders from the nation + + al and state fuel administrators. + ♦ Lightless Nights in Adams conn 4 + ty, begin tonight, effective Mon- + ♦ day ami Tuesday night of each ♦ ♦ week until further orders. + ♦ Street and public lights, except + ♦ whdre necessary for public safe- ♦ ♦ ty, will be turned off. No out- ♦ ♦ side lighting should be used. ♦ ♦ Window lights, advertising 4 ♦ signs, etc., excepting in restaur + ♦ ants, must not be used on light- 4 4 less nights. * ♦ In many states the order is es + + fective four and five nights a 4 ♦ week, but in Indiana the saving 4 ♦ on two nights is all that is deem- 4 ♦ed necessary. Every citizen is 4 4 asked to co-operate in this, re- 4 ♦ membering that every ounce of 4 ♦ fuel s&ved now means that 4 ♦ much more for next winter when 4 4 we will need it badly. We are 4 4 striving to avoid the fuelless 4 ♦ winter simiiiar to that of last 4 4 year. Please help. 4 + C. E. BELL, 4 ♦ Fuel Administrator for Adams 4 4 CountjA 4 ++++t+ t + + + '

I shoving boys into the battle. The German people who reluctently con- , cented to the participation in battle by these youths to gain the promised victory are beginning to feel they have been betrayed. Opposition is growing to the giving up of the re- ' maining sons for corn and fodder. t An officer recently captured declared drafts are being filled with difficulty. Prince Rupprecht's army is practically the only fit reserve left on the west front. The crown prince, it is 1 declared, has only five first class divisions. Confusion exists beyond the lines. There is indicision eerywhere. Manifestly there is a question of whether Germany is not now putting up a collosal bluff while I, trying to hide their hopeless condition behind a wall of imitation steel. I- BULLETIN ► (By Fred S. Ferguson, United Press ** Staff correspondent) With the American Armies in J France, July 29 —(Noon)—The first j, counter-attack against the Americans I, in any considerable force since the I. latest German retirement began, was made today between Nesle and Sergy a front of more than two miles, east «. of Feri-en-Tardenois. It followed a t severe bombardment of the whole line <■ but was completely repulsed. <> The boches suffered severe losses ♦ along the whole line. More than 300 + German dead were found piled in a + single narrow ditch. + The Americans captured a foot- + bridge across the Ourcq, guarded by + machine guns, in a ’ direct, frontal ♦ rush. The retreating boches were ♦ | shot down as they scurried up the op‘*‘|Posite bank. ■|> Washington, July 29—(Special to +1 (Continued on Pare Two)

Decatur, Indiana, Monday Evening, .Inly 29, 1918.

MRS. A. HEIN DEAD Wife of Preble Township Fanner Succumbed Sunday Afternoon. WAS 29 YEARS OLD Is Lady Who Disappeared from Home a Week Ago —Was 111 Long. Daisy, wife of Arthur Hein, of Preble township, residing on the old Dirkson farm, died Sunday afternoon about 3:15 o’clock from illness superinduced by premature child birth. Mrs. Hein had been in ill health for eight or nine years and finite recently her condition had been vry critical. She is the lady who a week ago Friday evening had disappeared from her home, and for whom searching parties had looked in vain for a night and day, and who was finally found the following Saturday night unconscious ii‘ the straw stack near the barn, where she had crawled for pro tection from cold, after wandering about in search for her home. The family came here this spring from Wisconsin. The body will he taken hack to the old home at Turtle l4tke, Wis., for interment in the cemetery where her mother lies. The husband and three children — the oldest ten and the youngest three years old—survive. The deceased was twenty-nine years, seven months and nineteen days of age. (Continued on Page Two) DIED SUDDENLY Death of Mrs. Bee Dorwin Braden Occurred Saturday Evening AT FORT WAYNE Os Apoplexy—Third Sudden Death in Family in Eighteen Months. Mrs. Belinda C. Braden, of Fort Wayne, well known here as Miss “Bee” Dorwin before her marriage, sister of City Mail Carrier W. R, Dorwin, died Saturday evening at 5:15 o'clock at her home at 3007 South Wayne Avenue, Fort Wayne, after a short illness from apoplexy. About three weeks ago Mrs. Braden suffered her first stroke of apoplexy, but had recovered anti was able to be about again, and her condition was thought to be most favorable. Saturday morning about eight o’clock she had another stroke which resulted in her death that evening. Mrs. Braden was forty-two years of age She was born in this county June 1, 1876, and was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton U. Dorwin. Hen death is the third sudden one in the family in a year and a half. That of the father, Clayton Dorwin, occurred a year and a half ago very suddenly from heart trouble; and that of the mother occurred last October at Mrs. Braden’s home, also very suddenly from an attack of the heart. Surviving are the husband and three children —Omar P„ Harry D., and Melissa J. all at home. There are two brothers —Will R. of this city; Guy, of Fort Wayne; and three sisters —Bess, wife of Miles Pillars, of The Dalles, Oregon; Mayme, wife of > Jack Church, of Michigan; Gyp, wife I of Tom Dent, of Fort Wayne, i Mrs. Braden resided in this city un til her marriage to Mr. Braden six . teen years ago, since when they have , lived in Fort Wayne. I The funeral of Mrs. Braden will be . conduted from the residence Tuesdaj afternoon at 1:30 o’clock and from the West Creighton Avenue Church of Christ at two o’clock. The Rev. M ’ L. Buckley will officiate. Interment ’'will bo in tire Lindenwood cemetery

I++++++++++++++ I + NO ORNAMENTAL LIGHTING. + 4- Patriotically complying with ♦ + the request of the federal and + + state fuel administrators there + + will be no current furnished for + + ornamental lighting, show win- + + dows, signs, of display lighting + 4- and street lighting will he cur- 4- + tailed where possible on Mon + + day and Tuesday nights of each ♦ ♦ week until we are advised fur- + ♦ ther. + THE DECATUR LIGHT AND + 4- POWER PLANT. 44" M. J. Mylott. Supt. 44 , 4 , 4 , 4' + 4-4 , 4-4 , + 4-4 , 4 , 4INSTANT DEATH Francis Earl Landfair Killed by Lightning Bolt Sunday Afternoon AT FETTERS HOME In Jefferson Township— His Only Child Died Three Weeks Ago. Francis Earl Landfair, aged twen-ty-three, residing a mile north of Chattanooga. Ohio, and near Rockford, Ohio, was struck by lightning and killed during the electrical storm Sunday afternoon. A watch carried by the unfortunate man stopped at 3:30 o’clock and indicates the hour of his death. The accident happened at the home of his brother-in-law and sister, Theodore and Edna Fetters, in Jefferson township, this county, where the family and other relatives were spending the day. Mr. Landfair and several of the other men. including his brother-in-law, his father-in-law, and others were standing near an iron-roofed pig pen near the barn during the period preceding the rain. A heavy bolt of lighting struck Mr. Landfair, killing him; knocking down the father-in-law. and shocking others who were standing near. A brother who had been in the group had left the place a short time before to crank an automobile for mother party and escaped. A sad feature of the young man’s death is that the only child of himself and wife, an infant a few weeks old, died about three weeks ago. The widow is thus left alone in her double sorrow. The body was taken to the young man’s own home today in the Scherer ambulance from this city. (Continued on Cage TwoBARN IS BURNED Large Log Barn, Seventy Years of Age, Burned to the Ground ALSO 20 TONS OF HAY » • , On John Meyer Farm—Loss is Complete—No Insur1 ance Carried. r After weathering the storms, light- ,• nings, snows and other vicissitudes of more than seventy years, the large 1 old log barn on the farm two miles south of this city, belonging to John e Meyer, of Fourth this city, was ; struck by lightning at about four i- o'clock Sunday afternoon during the if electrical storm. The barn was comif pletely burned, together with its cone tents, which included twenty tons of fine new hay. i- Half of the hay crop belonged ’o <- Mr. Meyer and half to the tenant, e Mr. Van Camp. There was no stock in the barn and all that was burned e was the hay. Hrfwever the loss is y heavy and is complete, there being no e insurance carried on the building or if contents. 1.1 The hum wns an old landmark of it [pioneer days and was a very large >•. structure.

:UNDER ROADSTER I ■ ——» ' Miss Dora Fairchild Pinnec Under Car When It Went Into Ditch AND TOPPLED OVER Fortunate Escape from Serious Injury—Car Somewhat Damaged. Miss Dora Fairchid. of the circulation department or the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, who was enroute here for a visit over Sunday, met with an accident Saturday evening about six o’clock, near the Sampson Pillars farm north of the city, when her roadster went into the ditch and toppled over, pinning her beneath the car. Her body lying in the ditch, prevented the full weight of the car from lying on her body, but her position amid the broken glass and parts es the car, was dangerous. When rescued by residents nearby, she wis found to be only slightly bruised and practically uninjured. Every spoke in one of the wheels was broken out and the car damaged otherwise. It was repaired yesterday, however, in time for her to use the same today. It is said that a motorcycle was approaching noiselessly from behind, and Miss Fairchild did not hear it coming until it was nearly upon her, whereupon in turning aside she became confused and sent the machine into the ditch. - - A STRONG APPEAL Is Made for Eligible Women of Adams County to Help Fill THE STUDENT QUOTA For Nursing Profession— Sick and Wounded Soldiers Need Care. Dr. Elizabeth Burns, appointed chairman of the Health and Recreation and Home and Foreign Relief department, of the Adams County Council of Defense, makes the following appeal: To eligible women of Adams county The United States is in need of 25,000 student nurses to take the •place of the graduate nurses who have now and must continue to go to the front for war work. Without more student nurses, graduate nurses can not respond to the national call to service in Europe and our wounded men will consequently suffer from lack of care. In the past our women have responded nobly to all calls of service and now again we are called upon to take up this noble work of learning to care for the sick and distressed, and we appeal most earnestly to women of the county to not let this call be in vain. Let as come to the front in this call for help and go “over the top” as Adams county always does. Physically fit women between the i ages of 19 and 35 yeprs, having hi ;h i school or college education, preferred < However, candidates will not be rei fused for lack of high school or col s lege training, but should be serious, r practical and patriotic, willing *o »to give up personal pleasures and ■ pursuits, and accept sacrifices. The - prosecution of the war demands that f our hospitals be kept filled by student nurses. j A campaign is to be waged within , a few days as soon as the- proper < blanks, etc., have arrived and recruit--1 ing stations will be provided in each a town and township of the county with > some one in charge to answer ill r questions and enroll all eligible .applicants. The townships will he f under the Liberty loan chairmen and s a public meeting with a patriotic pro gram will he held in ail townships

{soon if the plans now being formulated can be carried out. So let every woman liegln now an inventory of her qualifications and put her patriotism j to a test and let Adams county fur- ■ nish her full quota of students for tin' different training schools connected with our hospitals. Never before in history has theie been such a grat opportunity for the nursing profession to render its great ? eat service and so great is the de-1 mand for numbers that the people in civil life are asked to refrain from - calling on graduate nurses for aid and married nurses and others who have for one reason or another given up their profession are asked to return to practice. Watch the paper for further infer- • mat ion. ■ THROWN FROM CAR > ' Chalmer Schlegel in HosI i pital at Lima, Ohio, from Injuries [ SUSTAINED SATURDAY t Brushed from Street Car— I Body Bruised—Condition Not Serious. Charles Ault and his niece, Mrs. Raymond Dean, returned today from , Lima, O„ to which place they hastened Saturday on receipt of word that ’ their nephew and brother, Chalmer Schlegel, had been injured and was . a natient in the hospital there. They were pleased to find his injuries much less severe than at first ' seemed. He was riding on a crowded. street car and sitting on the steps. In passing another car he was brush ed off and thrown to the ground, being Isidly bruised about the left shoulder and back. His injuries are painful but not serious. It is said the car 1 on which he was riding was crowded beyond its legal limits. The boy was recently awarded a 1 judgment against a Mr. Stauffer of this county, in whose home he lived I as a small child The judgment was for injuries sustained when his arms • were crushed when a team he was 1 driving ran away and threw the boy i into the cogs of the farm machinery 1 to which tlie horses were hitched. < n j HOBBY WINS IN TEXAS. (United Press Service) I Dallas, Texas. July 29—(Special to ; Daily Democrat)—Representative Jeff 1 McLemore, of the seventh Texas dis- I trict, was defeated for renomination 1 at Saturday’s democratic primaries, i fairly complete returns today indi- ’ cate. Judge Clayton S. Briggs ap- , peared to be the nominee, with McLemore running third. Governor William P. Hobby was re- • nominated over former Governor James Ferguson by a large majority. Carlos Bee and A. P. Barrett were in a neck and neck race for the congressional nomination in the four- ’ teenth district —where representative Slaydon abandoned his fight for renomination, under white house pressure. 1 Q. — > BILL’S PICTURE TRAMPED ON <4 . (United Press Service) f’ Oyster Bay, N. Y„ July 29 —(Spel ’ cial to ■ Daily Democrat) —No Bill Hohenzollern hangs on the wall here e today. 11 In fact, there is no Bill Hohenzol- '• lern left. The life-sized portrait of ’• himself that Bill presented to Col- -- onel Roosevelt, who turned it over ta «, the public library, which disposed of o it to C. H. Collitz. a naturalized citid zen, lies trampled and full of holes, e It was roundly stepped on by memit bers of a gang which ilfted the por:t trati from the Collitz home to the tune of volceftil threats. n Collitz threatens to have the law r on ’em. FOR MILITARY SERVICE Il h Dwight Archer left this afternoon 11 for military service at Syracuse, N. )■ Y, His brother. Lloyd, from Camp e Sherman, O„ returned this afternoon ■Hover the G. R. & I. after q four days’ >- furlough. Both are sons of Mr. and s Mrs. Elmer Archer I

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STRONG COUNCIL Is Council of Defense of , Washington Township —Organized Well. MEETS SEMI-MONTHLY “Good Soldiers at Home” is What It Means—Good Meeting Held. Grant Owens, chairman, presided at the ninth meeting of the Washington township council of defense at the Washington schoolhouse, when a good program was given after which the business of the organization was attended to. That the “council of defense means that everyone at homo should be a good soldier" was explained by Homer Raudebush, who came forward at his time on the program and with his ready smile, told what it means to be a soldier at home Preceding his address and after Mr. Owens' remarks on the purpose of the meeting, Frank Heimann, spoke on "The Meaning of the Council of Defense"; O. O. McKean talked on "War-time Charity;” and W. E. Faurote on “Standing Behind the President.” bringing out the point that politics should play no part in our national crisis. Each talk was well given and to the point. Presiding at the business meeting, was Fred Busche, the minutes being read by the secretary. W. E. Faurote. Mr. Busche talked about things along the line of one’s duty, saying that every rrsttr nnd woman shoe W be -X---member and “show the Loys over there that we moan business over ■how." in the call for members. two ladles responded, being the first women members, It was decided to hold the meetings semi-monthly and to publish a report of each one. Mrs. Philip Carper was named to act as reporter to the county papers. The next meeting will be at the Raudebush schoolhouse, and Homer Raudebush will serve as chairman. The names of those enrolled at present are: John Amspaugh. John Schultz, Geo. Geels. Jacob Ontler. Allison Andrews Lloyd Bowman, Edward Booth. Matt Stalter, Harve Smith. Simon Myers, Harve Butler. Robert Chronister. Joseph Spangler. Frank Arnold. Jacob Koos. R. E. Brown, Raymond Voglewede. George Steele. John Geels. Hon ry Hill. Will Noll. Emerson Bowman, Jacob Rawley, John Miller. Homer Faust. Fred Colchin, Wm. Mersehberger, Lee Myers. F. O. Martin, W. W. Hawkins. Grant Owens, Emil Wilder, L. L. Hawkins. Ed Omler, G. W. Davis. Leo Lengerich. Grover Merrill. J. P. Brown. George Raudebush. A. J. Powell. Charles Hawkins, Edward Chronister. O. J. Johnson. O. E. Tucker. Frank Baker. Henry Brown, H. E. Williams. August Hiemann, Peter Kline. Fred Busche, S. J. Meachnen. W. E. Faurote. H. S. McKean, Mathias Thomas. T. R. Noll. Frank Heimann. James Merriman, f. O. McKean. Ren Brandyberry. Joseph Heimann, Ulysis Geller. Carl Adler. Lawrence Callow. J. D. Engle, Carl Callow. Abe Schnepp. Otto Hoffman. Tom Deen. John Heimann. Peter i-ose.r, E. W. Busche. J. M. Hoffman. Ray Harvey, Martin Hoffman, A. D. Smith. John Harvey. A. J. Beavers, Homer Raudebush. P. M. Carper, James Hendricks. Anthony Lengerich Marion Andrews. Noah Egly, Charles Estell. F. R. Brown. Freeman Walters, Julius Schultz. Thomas E. Johnson, Alvin Egly. Albert Spuller. Clement J. H. Andrews, F. H. Gerber, L. ('. Burkhead, Lawrence Bieberich. T. L. Johnson, W. M. Kitson, Homer Ginter. Elmer Cook. John Chilcote. Ora Ritter. E. 8. Lochner. L. F. Miller. Julius Hiedemann. Mrs. Philib Carper, Mrs. Grant Owens. The Council of Defense We aim always for the right And try to use good sense. And so we always mean to boost The Council of Defense. So let your name be on the list, We know twill make you wiser To boost the Council of Defense I icontrriueiTon 1 Page Two)