Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 240, Decatur, Adams County, 12 October 1918 — Page 2

I) AIL Y D E a M OC' R AT ( Published Every Evening Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company JOHN H. HELLER Preaident ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Secretary Subscription Ratea By Goveiument Order, Cash in Advance. One Week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier $5.00 One Month, by mail 35 cents Three Months, by mail >I.OO Six Months, by mail $1.75 One Year, by mail $3.00 One Year, at office $3.00 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postofflce in Decatur. Indiana, as second-class matter. ADAMS IS OVER AGAIN— When the figures were totaled last night at eight o’clock, F. M. Schirmeyer. the county chairman announced that Adams county had again made good and the workers gathered at headquarters cheered. Everybody in Adams county who liAik helped to make this possible ought to feel like yelling good and loud. It’s a big sum $750,000 —but not much when we consider that we age fighting for our future liberty and rights, for eetything we held and besides you are not giving ! a penny. "Yim have loaned this money tp your government and it will be repaid with interest. It has been a duty th it our citizns felt was a pleasure but we are not done. • To make sure that the $750,000 will be reported to the government we must increase cur subscriptions at least $50,000. In other words every townsthitf *u*t meet the quota and we Itelieve they will within the next week. So far each town and three townships. Union. Root and Washington have reached the goal. Decatur is nearly 100 per cent over. Work- rs in Preble, Kirkland, St. Marys. Blue Creek, Hartford and Jefferson assu r e us that they will carry on to victory French and Monroe and Wabash can do it. if the proper work is done. There will be no let up in the drive until every unit and every individual has been made 100 per cent as near as possible. Tile only reply that we can make to the article printed in the Berne Witness in defense of the good women of that community is that the Red Cross work is*not a contest between towns or a rivalry between communities. It is a service to the government, designed to give aid to your boys and our boys who are in camp and trench and on the battle field. If there has meen no work done by the Berne chapter since June, it would seem that it is time that some steps be taken that will again revive the excellent previous record made by that branch. Let's not atop now to quarrel and to say mean things about each other. The article printed in the Daily Democrat last Monday we assure you was not for that purpose

IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF A SUIT OR OVERCOAT do not wait until the selection is depleted and then expect a good selection. You will find a dandy assortment of Men’s and Young Men’s Clothing in our store, made by MICHAELS-STERN & COSOCIETY BRAND y f $20.00 to $35.00 • * *' “ r " 1 " v THE MYERS-DAILEY CO.MJPAIVV

but solely to awaken the people of this community to the fact that there ia Important work to be done. If thia reflected wrongly upon the workers of Berne, we are very sorry inde (1 aud we hope they will not permit the occurrence to retard them in the least from doing all they can. Adams county must do all her part all the time aud that means that Berne and Decatur and Geneva and Monroe and every section must meet the demands made upon them. If Berne’s quota is too heavy it should be changed, if there are no headquarters they should be provided, Ixst's not try to create discord but rather unanimity and results. Adams county has t„. a wonderful record in all her war wo’-k We have met each quota for ;ci an I money, we have met each require ment as it came up and we must continue to do so. The lastest achieveIntent, going over the top for the Fourth Liberty lx>an is indeed worth while. Let’s not break that record now, but rather let us improve The ony way to do that is to pull ti • gether as hard as we can. everybody, all at once. It's a heavy load and that's the only way we can lift IL Os course you know a lot of mea.i things about tjie other fellow hut this is not the time to throw bricks Ea- ii i time you do the other fellow has to stop io dodge and we lose that mil'll i time. Each of us must answer to his own conscience and each of u.t must make our own record during , these days that will be read about a hundred years from now. Forget Lhe faults of your neighbor and Jo your part. It will help the other mon , to see the light and do his. The fact that health regulations prevent church tomorrow should not prevent any person from worshiping. You can say your prayers and read your scripture lesson at home. . * this time when the crisis is so grave at home and abroad cur 'hougiits should turn to serious thoughts. The worst plague which has swept thia country in four score years is now causing death and great suffering, The health officials are fighting it as hard as they can. Make, yourself a committee of one to help them stamp out the Spanish influenza.

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A new case on change of venue from Wells county was filed here this morning, Nellie Matlock vs. Louis E. Matlock, for divorce. They were married August 50. 1916, and lived together until March loth, last. The complaint alleges failure to supiort. says defendant is owner of real estate valued at $4,000, has $2,100 in cash and notes and personal property and demands $3,000 alimony, an $l5O per year for support of only child, a daughter, a year and a half old. The defendant has filed a cross complaint setting out that by an agreement before marriage his wife was to resi le with Mrs Matlocks father, that she talked about him and nagged him. He also asks custody of the child. (Eberhart & Kenner are attorneys for praintiff and A. W. Hamilton for defendant. Della Ellenberger Miller, guard! in for Jesse. la-ima Herman. Metin and Dale Ellonberger filed written consen of her husband to continue to serve as guardian. John W. Linkhart vs. Fornax Milling Coniapny. on account, demurrer filed by defendant. State on relation of Marvel Mills wp. Gregory Oliver, paternity, submitted. Defendant ordered to pay S6OO for support of child. SIOO cash, $lhl) in one year, S2OO in two years and

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 12. 11118.

SIOO in three and four years with 6 per cent interest, secured. ■" ■ ' O' - — WAR SUMMARY (Continued from F»ge One) ue their advance on wide fronts. The British, striking along a twen-ty-two mile front between Lent and Cambrai yesterday evening carried their lines to within a mile of Douai on the west. That important city is now practically surrounded. There was no major fighting apparently on the remainder of the front north of the St. Gobain massif. The German retirement In the Champagne region has carried them northward in the bend of the Aisne to the general line of the Retourne river and the Pauvres-Vouiziers highway. The latter town has been occupied by the French. Evacuation of the Chemin des Dames region by the enemy is also proceeding rapidly and the French and Italians are also upon Craonne. In the Balkans the Serbians are within twelve miles of their former capital of Nish. The French and the Serbs are pushing westward into Albania. where they are in contact with the Austrians, retreating northward. Italian troops continue to shove the Austrian line northward in Albania. IMETHODisT CHURCH Although we will not be able to meet together in the church tomorrow. let uk not fail to observe the hour of morning worship in our homt s and thus we can concentrate our worship and our prayers to the great ends suggested in the appeal of the Ministerial Association as printed last night. It is a wonderful exhibit for the thousands of the followers of Christ to assemble themselves t.s gether in the Temples appointed for His worship, but the real essence of worship is found in the individual heart and not in the great crowd. Det us therefore gather about the feet of God in our private and family devotions, and the day will witness a last store of blessing and grace bestowed upon the faithful ones. Let us take for our scripture for this morning hour 1 Peter 1. 13-25. FRED F. THORNBURG. Pastor o WITH THE SICK John D. Hale, one of the best known citizens of Adams county, former county clerk and a pioneer businss man and veteran of the civil war. is very seriously ill at his«home on Fifth street with Spanish influenza. He has been sick since Monday but became serious only yesterday, the disease effecting the bowels and bladder. He was holding his own at noon.

Mrs. Elmer Smith is in a serious condition with Spanish influenza, pneuinona having developed. Mr. Smith and a daughter who had the ailment first are believed out of danger. Mrs. Purdy of First street, is quite low with influenza and was reported but slightly improved today. o DIED OF INFLUENZA Decatur friends of the Alvin Goodwin family of Pleasant Lake, Indiana, were grieved this morning to learn of the news that their son. Van Goodtv in who took sick just a week ago today ot the influenza died this morning at the family home. He was only about nineteen years old and visited several times with Roltert Colter. The boy's father also visited here on several occasions and is well known to Decatur people, all of whom sympathize with him in the loss of his son. o BODY WILL ARRIVE MONDAY The laxly of Roltert Myers who’s death occurred Friday morning at his home in Columbus. 0.. wiil arrive in .this city on .Monday morning at 11:20 o’clock over the Chicago and Erie railroad. The corpse will be taken to the home of his brother-in-law. Oliver Jackson on South First street, where it may be viewed by friends. At three-thirty o’clock the funeral services will be held at the Jackson home. Interment will be made m the family plot in Maplewood cemetery. o UNION TOWNSHIP CANDIDATE C. L. Walters this morning filed with the count clerk a petition signed by Albert Knave! and 2" other citizens and qualified voters of Union township, asking that the name "f Rufus Ramsey lie placed on the f.i-k---[et for that township, as a candidate for township assessor, as an independent candidate and not under any party emblem. The petition under the law must be tiled nor less than 20 days before election and is within the limit. NO SERVICES SUNDAY ” Complying with the request that the churches remain dosed, on account of influenza epidemic, there will be no services at the St. Marys Catholic church, on Sunday. REV. J. A. SEIMETZ, Pastor-

PRESIDENT AIDS 'Continued front Page One’ scription~of $2,000 Then Vol MJ House matched the president's sybsiripiion. When the president agreed to autograph every bond he sold fur ; SI,OOO or more, they went fast. ALLIES GAIN AND ENEMY SEEKS PEACE (Continued rrom Page One) look to see this granted bv Emperor Charles in his desperate effort to democratize his dominion and save his throne. All these conditions are expected to have had their respective parts in influencing the kaiser on his reply to President Wilson. (By Raymond Clapper. United Press A*talT correspondent I Washington. Oct. 12 —(Special t > Daily Democrat) —With the allied armies pushing ahead in the near east to reestablish their front on the Danube river. Turkey is accelerating her efforts to withdraw from tbe war Following tentative negotiations with the allies. reported for the last few days. Turkey is now said to be Binding an appeal to President Wilson —probably similar to that of Bill garia urging his aid in securing for Turkey an. armistice and lur retirement as a Teutonic ally. Her position as a belligerent is becoming more and more dangerous and her surrender is expected momentarily to prevent complete disaster. General Allenby has wrecked Turkey's armies and once the allies reestablish the Danube front Turkey will be cut off from all aid from Germany. When the allies got this waterway under fire of their guns, barges bearing munitions to Turkey via the Black sea must cease their operations and the Ottoman empire will be wiped out of the war. "This accomplished, the Dardanelles will be thrown open to the allied licet. Oussa opened as a ba«e for reconstruction of an eastern front in Russia —and the plight of Austria will become increasingly serious. It is probable, therefore, that Germany is exerting every pressure to hold her ally in line or engineer Turkey's exit in such fashion as to get what salvage she can out of the ruins. For that reason officials here are wit.hohlding comment on the latest reported Turk maneuver until official advices are at hand. Ixmdon. Oct. 12—(Special to Daily Democrat) — Austria-Hungary and Turkey are expected immediately to announce acceptance of President Wilson’s armistice terms, according to an. exchange telegraph dispatch from Berlin, received byway of Amsterdam. A Central News dispatch from Amsterdam says that Austria-Hungary and Turkey have informed Germany they will accept Wilson’s terms. The Express declares ■ the allies have agreed on a common policy in regard to eace negotiations. London, Oct. 12—(Special to Daily Democrat) — Conservative estimates early today placed the number of soldiers lost when the British steamship Ostranto, acing as an American transport, was sunk in collision with the Kashmir at 160. The Otranto was dashed to pieces on the rocks of the Scottish coast early Sunday morning after she had been rammed by the Kashmir during a fierce storm. Captain E. S. Heimer, army medical corp, unattached, whose home is at Hundson. N. Y.. arrived here today with 250 survivors of the crash. Three hundred and seventeen so! diers and 150 members of the Otranto's crew were rescued by a British destroyer, lie said. Captain Heimer, interviewed by the United Press, said the collision occurred at 9 o'clock Sunday morning. “A raging storm was in progress.” he stated, “with high seas sweeping

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across our decks when the Kashmir hit us amidships. The coolness and 1 calmness of the soldiers was wonIderful. They jumped at attention at their appointed places awaiting commands without panic. “There were 100 sick cases below and 1 believe they were all lost. "We floated an hour and a quarter after the collision. When a British destroyer drew up alongside our boys began to jump. There were 700 soldier aboard. Os those left aboard many must have been lost." Others declared there were 900 soldiers aboard. Unstinted praise is being heaped on Lieutenant Craven who commanded the British destroyer Mounsen. and rescued more than 200 men. Most of the soldiers on the transport were Georgia men, all casualties (probably meaning replacement units). Red Cross workers met survivors of the lost ship as they landed, supplying them with cigarettes, hot coffee and food and other necessities. Paris, Oct. 11 — (Delayed) — The Germans are retreating on a front of 37 miles northeast of Rheims. with French cavalry in hot pursuit, the war office announced tonight. The French. following on the heels of the enemy, have advanced more than six miles at same points. The line of retreat extends north of Suippe and Arnes rivers. Farther eastward the French are also pushing the Germaijs back and the allied advance extends along an unbroken front of alxnit 60 miles from northwest of Rheims to the Argonne forest. Ma.cha.ult lias been passed. French and Italians are rapidly clearing the en'irv Chemin-des Dames legion of the enemy. In the Oise valley the French are pushing toward Guise. o BETTER AT CAMP SHERMAN (United Press Service) Camp Sherman. Oct. 12—(Special to Daily Democrat)- Improvement in the influenza situation here led the camp surgeon today to recommend that the quarantine be lifted partially Monday morning. He also recoinin' tided that all jiost exchanges in camp he permitted to reopen. ' Washington. Oct. 12—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The epidemic of Spanish influenza appears to be ■ slightly on the decline in army canips according to a report Issued by the office of the surgeon general. I Twelve thousand twenty-tour new cases were reported in the last 24 . hours, a decrease of 297 cases over i the proceeding day. The total number of cases, reported from all camps since the disease , made its first appearance is 223,111. MUST REPORT CASES Any physician treating cases of in- . fluenza should report the case immed- . lately to the city board of health c,n , the proper blanks. This must ee done in order to help combat the epl- ; demic as speedy as possible. , DR. H. F. COSTELLO. City Health Officer. REMAINS ARRIVED TODAY ’ The burial of Clarence Clark, member of the IT. S. navy, whose death occurred at the Great Likes Naval ‘ Traing station will take place tomorrow at Decatur cemetery. Owing to the regulations by health officers the ’ only service will a short one at the ! grave. The body arrived this morning r al 3:25 over the Erie, by express. o A PLATE OF STRAWBERRIES . Willis Fonner. the well known Root township farmer who has been making a specialty of raising the everbearing strawberry, and lias succecd- . ed so well that he has had a good i supply of them all summer, this afternoon brought in a plate of beautiful ■ fresh berries. He asks that any one - who lias sick people who would ap- . .predate them is welcome to come to this office this evening and get some ; of the berries.

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STOCK SALE.

The undersigned will offer for sale at the Neptune stock farm, on the old Piqua road. 6 miles southeast of ix>. catur. or 1 mile southeast of Bobo, or 2V- miles north of Willshire, on Wednesday, October 23. beginning at 10 o'clock a. ni.. the following live stock: Mules: Four teams, all coming three years old; 2 teams of sorI rels, 2 teams of brow-ns. good one< Cattle: Two four year old cows, will be fresh in four weeks, one four year old cow. fresh last June, gives four gallons milk per day. Sheep: Ten head of Shropshire®, 7 of them are ewes; 2 ewe lambs and one buck: a good one. Hogs: 75 head; ten head weightag 180 lbs. each; 65 head summer shoats. averaging 100 lbs. each. Termsi-j-A credit of 9 months will be given, purchaser giving note with approved security, bearing 8 per cent interest after 6 months; 4 per cent ’ off for cash. No stock removed until settled for. 12-15-17-19-21 NEPTUNE A- FUNK