Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 223, Decatur, Adams County, 23 September 1918 — Page 4

DAILY DEM PC RAT Published Every Evenlnfl Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company JOHN H. HELLER Prealdent ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Secretary Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier 10 Cents Per Year, by carrier 16.00 Per Month, by mail 26 cents Per Year, by mail . (3 00 Single Copies ,’...2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice in Decatur, Indiana, as eecond-claaa matter. Just two weeks in winch to register if you want to vote in November. There are nearly a thousand *votcs out yet. If you have registered, see that your neighbor has. It’s mighty important this year of all years and everybody is so busy that you ought to look after it yourself. Register now. Chairman Schirmeyer is working as hard as any one can work to make the Fourth Liberty Loan a success. He is being ably assisted by a number of his assistants but he deserves all the help that all of us and all the people can give him. Offer your services and then deliver. There is much work to do in town and country the next week. There is work for every one. Be a real VOLUNTEER. Do your best and do it hard. Help the chairman who is working eighteen hours a day and on Sunday to make it a winner. The Turkish army in the Hoiy Lands has Ween annihilated, accciding to the news dispatches and the city of Nasareth has been taken from the hands of the barbarians who have held it. The allied armies march on to victory because they are in the right. Every good citizen of the world should and will back them to the last penny and to the last man if necessary. The news received is glorious

but the end is not in sight. Don't let up a single minute, don't hesitate an instant in doing all you can that right may defeat might and the world live at peace again. It's your duty and the greatest privilege ever given to the people of any decade since the world started, to do everything you can to help the army now fighting for an everlasting peace. A service flag parade is to be one ■f the features of the celebration here Aext Friday to arouse, upon the eve of the Fourth Liberty Loan campaing, a feeling that will make Adams county go over the top, voluntarily in three days. Every mother, wife and child of a soldier should get a flag and join the parade. If this don’t stir the hearts of those who witness it we admit we don’t know what would. If you cannot awaken to the needs of the hour when you see the dear relatives of the soldier boys marching through the streets, your soul is lost to all feelings of patriotism and you deserve to be banished from the land of the brave and the free. Our boys are fighting. We must keep the

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stock of food and munition* and equipment going steadily to them that the war may bo ended speedily. It’s your affair as much as it's any one else’s. Let your enthusiasm out this week. it will help the great cause. The next week will be a busy one for the workers for the Fourth Liberty Loan and it should be a busy one for every man, woman and child in the county. Don’t you love the seven hundred boys who are offering their service® and their lives that you may live and worship in a free country, that the world may be made safe for democracy? if you do you surely want those boys cared for even if to do so you must sacrifice slightly at home. These are not ordinary times that can be measured as you are used to deciding little affairs. These are days when the world is breaking in two. Shall we save our future or shall we be slaves to an autocratic kaiser? That is really the great question whether or not you see it. You can borrow a thousand dollars for $60.00 a year and receive from the government interest amounting ■to $42.60 so that your sacrifice if you have to borrow every dollar of it will be only $17.50 per year. Won’t you make that sacrifice? Won't you do your full part, all you can and a little more? It will be a benefit to you in both ways—you help the government and your boys and you save the money for future days when the bonds will be worth a premium. In the name of all you hold righteous, buy bonds, buy, buy, buy and then BUY more.

[ SOCIETY | Club Calendar • Monday. Ruth Circle —Mrs. Robert Gawd. Delta Theta Tau —Mrs. Will Bowers. T uesday. Tri Kappas—Cecil Andrews. War Mothers’ Meeting—Mrs. E. X. Ehinger. Rebekah Anniversary Celebration— I. O. O. F. Hall. Wednesday. St. Vincent de Paul—Mrs. J. F. Arnold. Willing Helpers—Mrs. Gust Yager. Thursday. Christian Ladies’ Social—Mrs. G. C. Steele. ink ,?i.■■/.iicent de. raul society will meet with Mrs. J. Ft Arnold Wednesday afternoon. A good attendance is desired. The regular meeting of the Eastern Star will be hold at the Masonic hall on Thursday evening. The report of the convention will be read. The Willing Helpers' Sunday school class of the Reformed church, ■ will meet with Mrs. Gust Yager on North Eleventh street Wednesday afternoon. •

It is desired that every member of ' the Delta Theta Tau sorority be present this evening at the meeting at the home of Mrs. Will Bowers. Mr. and Mrs. Ed V.’ertzberger and two daughters, of Elwood, were guests of his father, M. J. Weftzberger and family over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Hays and daughter, Eleanor, of near Frankfort; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hays, of Council Bluffs, lowa, were guests over the weekend of their brother, Ross Hays and family. They arrived Saturday noon and left today. Every member of the St. Vincent de Paul society is requested to meet with Mrs, J. F. Arnold Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. S. P. Sheets, corner of Ninth and Jefferson streets, had as her guests at dinner Sunday, Mrs. L. J. Cliff: an and Mrs. Adam Gephart. cf Wren, O.; Mrs. Velum McGill, of this j city. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Osborne, of Detroit, Mich., are guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. 11. Palmeriee, of West Monroe street.

The Rebekahs will celebrate the 1 ixty-seventh anniversary of the order with a picnic supper at seven o’clock Tuesday evening, followed by a program. Every Rebekah and Odd Fellow and their families are invited. Each ono is asked to bring a contiibuliou to the supper. The Ruth Circle of the Christian Church, will be entertained this evening by Mrs. Robert Garard at her;

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home ou SVtdebaker street, firsi house west of South ward school, in stead of by Miss Esther Enos as al first planned. The Tri Kappas will meet Tuesday evening witl( Miss Cecil Andrews. Fred Bnyder and Mrs. Pat Wilhelm formerly of Decatur, entertained Sunday at the latter’s homo on Wilt street, Fort Wayne, in honor of their husband's and wife’s birthday anniversaries. After the three course lunch there was a program consisting of music, and readings by Helen Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Fred Snyder, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Schnitz, Mrs. Adda Snyder und Mr. F. Vernon, of Peru; Glenn Shackicy, Frank Firth and the Pat Wilhelm family.—Contributed. At‘ention is again called to the Christian Ladies' social arranged for Thursday evening at the G. C. Steele home on Fifth street. The public is cordially invited.

6 O U fl T I Marriage licenses were issued to Eli W. Hendricks, of Monroe, born January 11. 1866, son of William Hendricks. to wed Sarah Stella Crist, born February 21. 1869, daughter of Daniel Hunter. The groom’s first wife died December 4. 1916, and the bride lost her former companion in 1900 and 1916. A Marriage license was issued to Harvey Benjamin Ward, born March 10, 1896, son of James E. Ward, to wed Cleo Elizabeth Steele, born March 19. 1899, daughter of Robert Steele. The groom's first wife diid last April. The case of Mary A. Irwin, administratrix. vs. Charles Getz, et al, was reset for October 29. In the case of the Farmers & Merchants’ State Bank of Preble, vs. E. O. Ostermann, et al., appearance was entered by Houston, et al. for E. F. Farley and Pan American Life Insurance Company. Rule to answer.

A judgment for $79.89 was entered for William L. Keller, against Nicholas H. Wagoner. Real estate transfers'. Edward P. Miller, administrator, to William b. Spaulding, lot 39, Decatur, $2334. PIONEER IS~ DEAD (Continued tron> Page One) the Decatur cemetery. Mr. Pillars was long a member of the Masonic lodge, which order will be in charge of the funeral. TWO TURKISH ARMIES * ’am WirEit uliT (Continued from Page One) vacations. Harbin. Manchuria, Sept. 20 —(Specail to Daily Democrot) —Six thousand Germans and Austro-Hungar-ians are threatening the Irkutsk district. The population of the Baikal region is anxiously awaiting the arrival of Japanese troops. Pgris, Sept. 23—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The Temps declares the Germans are evacuating JCambrai, sending the inhabitants to Mons. Amsterdam, Sept. 23 —(Special to Daily Democrot)—The kaiser visited the Alsace-Lorraine front Thursday

and Friday, thanking the German armies there for bravely holding out, according to the Lokal Anzeiger, Tien Tsin, China. Sept. 23—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Chinese troops negotiated the surrender of 3,000 Austro-Hungarinas to a force of Czechs, near Kiakhita, when they mediated between the Czechs and 4,000 Austro-Hungarians who were fleeing. London. Sept. 23 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Allied troops in Macedonia have cut the railroad from Gradako to Prilip. according to the Serbian official communique received here today. The Uskup-Salonika railway also has been cut, thus stopping all supplies to the Bulgarians on the whole sixty-five mile front from Prilip eastward to the Dake Doirau region. Up to Saturday the allies had made a total advance of more than forty miles, certain infantry units advancing twenty-five miles in one day.

London. Sept. 23 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —British troops progreased on a front of about three-quarters of a mile cast of Gavrelle (five miles aud a half northcast of Arras)* last night, Field Marshal Haig announced today. The Germans temporarily penetrated the British lines near Berthaucuurt (four miles northwest of St. Quentin), early in the evening, but were driven out by a counter-attack.'

‘•THIS IS THE LIFE” The W. R. Dorwin family receiv'd n letter from Henry Sprunger and family who left recently for ttear Saginaw, Mich, where they are located on a large farm adjoining that of his brother, Eli Sprunger. Mrs. Sprunger and children arrived there last Monday Joining Mr. Sprunger and they are all nicely located. Mr. Sprunger says that "tl)is is the life'' —meaning farm lift''. There is plenty of work and plenty to eat. and they were in the midst of a bounteous harvest of apples, pears, musk melons and other fruits as well as roasting ears, potatoes and vegetables of nil kinds. The potato vines are still green, and in digging, they found i potato which weighed a pound. Mr. Sprunger has his wheat sowed, has tilled his silo, und is now cutting corn He was a clerk at the Holthouse, Schulte clothing store until leaving for the farm.

STILL AT SPEECH-MAKING. (United Press Service) Cleveland. Ohio. Sept. 23 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Federal Judge Westenhaver and District Attorney Wertz today were to receive a stenographic copy of a speech made here yesterday by Eugene V. Debs, socialist leader. A German singing society, which attended the Debs meeting, sang the ’’Marseillaise” in German. Federal agents also attended. Debs was sentenced to ten years in the Moundsville, W. Va.. penitentiary by Westenhaver for making disloyal utterances. He was released on $lO,000 bail, pending appeal. TWO FLIERS KILLED Indianapolis, Sept. 23 — Captain Hammond, of the British Royal Flying corps, and C. Kinder, of Greenfield, Ind., were instantly killed and Lieut. Roy Picketts, of the Speedway aviation field, Indianapolis, was seriously injured when an airplane in which they were returning to the field from a Liberty Loan trip to Greenfield went into a nose dive and fell 400 feet while they were preparing to make a landing at the speedway field at 7 o’clock last night.

TO SELECT A SUCCESSOR. London. Sept. 23 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The archbishopric of New York is considered so important that Pope Benedict and Cardinal Gasparri will personally select the late Cardinal Farley's successor, instead of following the usual procedure of leaving the selection to the consistorial congregation, it was announc-* ed today. The new archbishop of New York will be selected from the American bishops. — o ART SMITH ENCIRCLES TOWN Hundreds of people in this city Saturday afternoon had the pleasure two or three times in a big scouting plane,' from the Dayton fields. He was on his way to Fort Wayne where he is assisting in the Fourth Liberty Loan drive and passing this city he turned back end encircled the town, waving his hand at. the crowds below, much to the delight of those who saw him. t k ” LIKES WORK IN ARMY Mrs. Anne Mallett received a letter from her son, Charles, who enlisted as a clerk in the medical corps of the U. S. army and is now in France. He is well and is gaining day by day and likes his work very much. He has been promoted to the office of sergeant, and does all of the clerical work for his company.

REBEKAH ANNIVERSARY The family of every Rebekah and Odd Fellow is invited to te picnic supper and program Tuesday evening at seven o'clock at the I. O. O. F. hall in celebration of the Rebekah sixtyseventh anniversary. o —— W. R. C. MEETING The W. 11. C. will hold a Call meeting tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at the post hall, where important business will be transacted. Every member is requested to be present and especially the color bearers.

CARD OF THANKS. We wish in this way to express our gratitude and thank our many friends and neighbors for their kind words and deeds, extended during the sad hour and death of our beloved father. Louis Goldner. THE CHILDREN. MASONIC °MEETING. There will be a meeting at the Masonic hall this evening at 8 o'clock to make arrangements to attend the funeral of deceased brother, Sampson Pillars. All members requested to attend. GEO. E. KINZLE, W. M. TuTsdayTseptember’m’ Jefferson Township—Blue Creek church; good speakers an<) good music will be provided.

SERVICE FLAGS (Continued from Page One) died children and Camp Fire Girls singing "Your Boy and My Boy” and the parade will dose at the court house where Senator Beveridge will deliver his address. It will be worth seeing and every one entitled to join the parade is urged to do so. — o , BIG PATRIOTIC SERVICES Siecial patriotic services were Held in many churches over the county Sunday one of the most interesting of which was that at the Presbyterian church Sunday night. Mr. C. J. Dreggman was chairman and did his part splendidly. The choir furnished special music and addresses wore made by Hon. Thurman Gottschalk, Mrs. Emma Daniel and Lieut. Dwight Peterson, each most interesting. Mrs. Daniel has a wonderful message and delivers it so impressively that her audience thinks most seriously over the problems presented. It was a wonderful meeting and well attended. Here and at the other churches the Volunteer badges were pinned on many.

FUNERAL HELD TODAY The funeral of Reuben Baxter was held this afternoon at 2:30 from the Decatur Methodist church, with the Rev. F. F. Thornburg in charge. Burial took place in the Decatur cemetery. His death occurred last Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock at the soldiers’ home at Dayton, 0.. but owing to a delay in a letter, word was not received by the children until they called bn one of their frequent visits at the soldiers’ home Friday morning, when they found his bed vacant and the body placed among six or seven others in the vault, placarded that the burial would be Saturday. The body was brought here Saturday evening at five o’clock by Murray Sciierer. GOES TO WASHINGTON, D. C. Miss Ruth Patterson Resigns as Teacher at West Ward Miss Ruth Patterson, first grate teacher at the Riley building in the west ward, resigned Saturday evening to go to Washington. D. C., to ta'te a: government position as a clerk in the department of soldier’s insurance She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Patterson, of the south part of the city. Mrs. W. A. Ijower, substitute, is serving in her place until a teacher is appointed, which will probably be this evening.

FORMER DECATUR MAN DEAD Dr. Elizabeth Burns of this city, received word from New Castle, Pa., announcing thf death of Jacob Tewell, a former resident of this city. He died September 14. and burial took j•i• ;a ’ a r» wi» v»- i > > t •* ' • • was eighty-four years of age. and left this part of the country about forty years ago, when he settled in Pennsylvania, he being a saloon keeper in this city before that time. o COUNTY SCHOOLS OPEN The greater number of the county schools opened this mbroing for the season. There were a number of townships, however, that were not ready to begin.

BLUFFTON’S TWELFTH ANNUAL Big Free Street Fair Sept. 24 to 28,1918 SENSATIONAL BIG FREE ACTS THRILLING PATRIOTIC FEATURES EVERY DAY BOOSTING AL WIN-THE-WAR MOVEMENTS BIG NIGHT CARNIVAL EVERY NIGHT DEDICATION OF COUNTY, SERVICE FLAG BY COUNTY WAR MOTHERS ON THURSDAY I'RIDAi IS LIBERTY GUARD DAY, WITH C A R amh OTHER PATRIOTIC ORGANIZATIONS PARTICIPATING BIG EXHIBIIS OF ART, AGRICULTURE LIVE STOCK AND POULTRY ‘ U BIG BLOW OFF SATURDAY NIGHT COMPLETE PROGRAM EVERY DAY AND NIGHT EVERY If EAR A LITTLE BETTER

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