Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 250, Decatur, Adams County, 24 October 1918 — Page 5

HOW ABOUT THEM' Rubber Boots and Artics and all other Rub- j •I ber Footwear, your family will need for this win- M ■ ter's wear? $ £ If you have ever worn Top Notch Rubbers, * | you will be delighted to hear we can supply your s : ■ wants again this season with the high grade Top >i i Notch Rubbers. I Charlie Voglewede j | THE FOOT FITTER. ■K*u ok m j ttxn:imiaxuxu:".atznxrauxnxuxmsasrams S ,

ff l^KT*Nr****** t ~*ff* 7 ****'*f** ******** Tft* *?t*Ttt* t v | WEATHEK FORECAST I Ohio—Rain tonight and probably Thursday; cooler Thursday southwest portion. Indiana -Rain tonight and Thurs day; cooler Thursday. The Neptune & Funk sale was held yesterday and was a successful one. Chris Eicher, of Hartford township was looking after business here la st evening. Fort Wayne will continue the health ban iixt week whether the state so decides or not. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Christen came from Toledo, 0.. to attend the funeral of their brother, Jesse. Juiwreuce Opliger. well known school man, is looking after business interests here for a few days. Mrs. Horace Callow' left today tor Canton, 0., to isit with her brotheer.' Charles Rice and family. Her mother. Mrs. Phoebe Rice, who has bean there on a visit, will return home with her. > Next Sußdajt. October 27th, 1s ‘Tib • to Sunday School Hay" in Indiana. It is hoped by the State Sunday School Association that there will be. 100 per cent increase in every Sunday school. Dan Costello of the United Stales' army, of the department-surgeon’s office. Chicago, went to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon to visit, and returned here, leaving today for his station. He. had been here since the funeral of his great-uncle, Daniel Donovan.

The Home of Quality Groceries YOUR WINTER STORAGE POTATOES Should be ripe stock. Let us put in your supply from our Minnesota White, Smooth Stock. They are ripe. Special prices on 5 or 10 bushel lots. Peeled Peaches at 15c a package are a bargain. Dromedary Dates, worth 25c. pkg., this week at 20c No. 17 Galvanized Coal Hod, extra heavy, each 75c Six-inch Stove Pipe, hand made, riveted, each 25c 1 Gal Oil Can 25c These prices are money-saving prices. Try them. Apples, Pumpkins, Squashes, Onion, Cenery, Cabbage, Oranges, Bananas, at low price. We pay cash or trade for country produce: Eggs, 48c; Butter 35 to 50c. M. E. HOWER North of G. R. & I. Depot ’Phone 108 | THE I I "WHITE STAG"! I CIGAR I “Better in every way than any other.” Try them today—You’ll like ’em. For Sale Everywhere. ■

— ■ - - Nathan Ehrtnan went to Fort Wayne this morning on business. Deputy Sheriff Roy Baker is post- ( ing the legal notices of the general ( election to be held Tuesday, November sth. i G. A. Christen, of Louisville, K; ~ arrived yesterday afternoon on ac- . count of the death of his brother, Jesse Christen. Candidates for county office ate making a canvas of the county at this time, the public sales being a popular place to call just now. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Finkhousen and his mother. Mrs. Emma Finkhousen, of Wren. 0.. changed cars here enroute to Fort Wayne to visit. One hundred and eighty new persons are going overseas monthly under Y. M. C. A. auspices, to enl trtain the soldiers in the trenches and camps. Charlie Voglewede who has been ' confined to his bed for over a week suffering from a severe cold, is aide to be up again and is feeling some ; better. When the solicitors for the United War Work fund ask you for your donation. don't give less than a five spot. That's the minimum quota for each individaul. Adams county’s asI sessment is $30,000. You must help ito raise it. Wells College at Oswego, N. Y„ has arranged to send two units of ' ten girls each to France to work in the military canteens under the aus- , pices of the National War Work Council of the Y. M. C. A. The girls i attending the college are now forr.t- --| ing a third unit.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21,1918.

Mrs. Muri Lafsure and Mrs. Frances’ i Howard went to Berne to visit. j Mrs. D. C. Brandyberry, of Mon-' . t oe, was a business visitor here today Tony Hackman returned yesterday to his work in Indianapolis after a visit here. t Mrs. J. C. Whiteman and daughter, Blanche, went to Bryant this afternoon to visit with relatives. Marshal Handler returned this morning from a business trip to Elwood, Indiana, his former home. Mrs, J. W. Taylor and son, of near Willshire, O. changed cars here enroute to Fort Wayne for medic tl treatment. Mrs. F. H. Hubbard and daughter, Miss Ruth of Ottawa. Ohio, have returned home after a few days’ visit with friends here. The Krick & Tyndall tile mill is closed for repairs and by agreement a number of the employees are worfling at the sugar factory A number of people are now being inoculated against influenza and pneumonia, this being considered a safe way to escape the disease. H. L. Center, democratic candidate for secretary of state, went to Indianapolis this morning, to attend a meet- [ ing of the state condidates and committee. Th’ feller that used t’ hustle fer a dime now has t' hustle for a dollar ['an' a half. Ther hain’t no tonic like .[competition.—Abe Martin in Indianapolis News. Rev. D. O. Wise received a telegram from Connersville last evening stating that his sister is not expect?d ' to live. Rev. and Mrs. Wise left for Connersville on the night train.— ‘ Berne Witness. Harry Fisher, editor of the high ' school paper has been named as a staff writer for the War Worker's i committee in Decatur and will inter- ■ view a number of people, securing i stories for publication during the . campaign. i The government is insisting that , no paper be sent to any person in arrears and the order must be comI plied with. It. adds to the work of the newspaper office and we hope every subscriber will realize the im--1 portance of complying with the same. Frank Heller, west of town, administrator of the estate of Reuben Heller, who died two weeks ago of influenza at Camp Taylor, is in receipt • today of a check of $2,043.20 of Lin- - coin Life Insurance Co., for a $2.0n0 ' policy which was taken out through " the local agency here a short while ago.—Berne Witness. ’ The National Committee of the Y. M. C. A. hopes to recruit at least 13,- , 000 men during the next five years, f recruiting to begin immediately in 1 conjunction with the United War - Work Campaign. Many men arc c needed for war work, while the work t of the local organizations must be - carried on and new branches opened. The return of the victorious soldie r s > will mean countless new members from among the men now making • initial acquaintances with the work | of the “Y” in France. A New’ York dispatch to the Indianapolis News says: "In an investigation here of lhe activities of alleged "coffin ghouls,” the federal auth- ■ orities have caused the arrest of two undertakers on charges of attempting to defraud the government. The undertakers, it is alleged by representing to relatives of dead soldiers that : 'the government coffins in which the • | bodies were sent home were cheap : pine boxes, obtained order* for ix- ; pensive coffins and then appropriated the government coffins, in some cases reselling them to the govern- 1 ment. The “dheap pine boxes” cost, the government. $36 each. The "coffin ghouls” are said to have reaped a rich harvest since the Spanish influenza began taking its toll in the training camps, and several more undertakers are said to be under investigation here.” 600 RTI Quinn Heaton vs. Willshire Telephone Company. Defendant filed demurrer to the plaintiff’s complaint, which court overruled. Exceptions. Answer in one paragraph filed. Lena Craig, guardian of Earl J. Craig, filed petition to invest S2OO in U. S. bonds. Real estate transfers: Wilhelm Buitemcier to Adolph Bultemeier, 80 acres of Preble township, $12,000. Licensed to marry: Charley Calvin Abnet. farmer, born November IS. 1879, son of Jacob Abnet. and Dora Edna Brewster, born March 6, 1892. daughter of Daniel Brewster. The In-ide was divorced from a former husband in 1913 DEM Os K/iT WANT ADS FAY BIG. |

PRESIDENT WILSON’S FIRM REPLY. I Washington, D. C„ October 23—The reply of President Wilson to the last fiermant note follows: "The secretary of state make public the following: ' "From the secretary of state to the charge d’affaires ad interim in charge of German interests in the United States: I "Department of State, October 23, 1918: I "Sir: ' “I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of yoqr note of the 22nd . I transmitting a communication under date of tne 20ch from the German go-. • ernment and to advice you that the president has instructed me to reply thereto as follows: "Having received the solemn and explicit assurance of the German gov-] ernment that it unreservedly accepts the terms of peace laid down in his address to the congress of the United States on the eighth of January, 1918. and the principles of settlement enunciated in his subsequent addresses, particui larly the address of the 27th of September, and that it desires to discuss the details of their application and that this wish and purpose emanated, not from those who have hitherto dicated German policy and conducted the pres ent war on Germany's behalf but from ministers who speak for the majority * of the reichstag and for an overwhelming majority of the German people; and 1 having received also the explicit promise of the present German government that the humane rules of civilized warfare will be observed both on land and I tea and by the German armed forces, the president of the United Statesi States feels that he cannot decline to take up with the governments with l which the government of the United States is associated the question of an armistice. "He deems it his duty to say again, however, that the only armistice he would be justified in submitting for consideration would be one which should . leave the United States and the powers associated with her in a position to enforce any arrangements that may be entered into and to make a renewal of hostilities on the part of Germany impossible. The president has, therefore, transmitted his correspondence with the present German authorities to the governments with which the government of the United States is associatI cd as a belligerent, with the suggestion that, if those governments are disposed to effect peace upon the terms and principles indicated, their military advisers and the military advisers of the United States be asked to submit to ths governments associated against Germany the necessary terms of such an armistice as will fully protect the interests of the people involved and insure to the associated governments the unrestricted power to safeguard and , enforce the details of the peace to which the German government has agreed. ' provided they deem such an armistice possible from the military point of | view. Should such terms of armistice be suggested their acceptance by Ger many will afford the best concrete evidence of her unequivocal acceptance of the terms and principles of peace from which the whole action proceeds. “The president would deem himself lacking in candor did he not point ; cut in the fraknest posible terms the reason why extraordinary safeguards must be demanded. Significant and important as the constitutional changes seem to be which are spoken of by the German foreign secretary in his note of the twentieth of October, it does not appear that the principle of a government responsible to the German people has yet been fully worked out or that any guaranties exist or are in contemplation that the alterations of principle ai.d of practice now partially agreed upon will be permanent. Moreover, it does not appear that the heart of the present difficulty has been reached. It may be that future wars have been brought under the control of the German people, but the present war has not been; and it is with the present war that we are dealing. It is evident that the German people have no means of commanding the acquiesence of the military authorities of the empire in the popular will; that the power of the king of Prussia to control the policy of the empire is unimpaired; that the determining initiative still remains with those who have hitherto been the masters of Germany. Feeling that the whole peace of the world depends now on plain speaking and straightforward action, ' the president deems it his duty to say, without any attempt to soften what -' may seem harsh words, that the nations of the world do not and cannot trust ’ the word of those who have hitherto been the masters of German policy, and to point out once more that in concluding peace and attempting to undo the - infinite injuries and injustices of this war, the government of the United > States cannot deal with any but veritable representatives of the German 1 people who have been assured of a genuine constitutional standing as the > real rulers of Germany. If it must deal with the military masters and the I monarchial autocrats of Germany now, or if it is likely to have to deal with them later, in regard to the international obligations of the German empire, Jit must demand, not peace negotiations, but surrender. Nothing can be gainled by leaving this essential thing unsaid. Accept sir, the renewed assurances , of my high consideration. | (Signed) “ROBERT LANSING, "Frederick Oederling, charge d'affaires of Switzerland, ad interim, in charge , | of German interests in the United States.”

I BODY ARRIVES ’ Sergeant Geo. Myers Accompanies Body of Jesse Christen r , - -| Sergeant George Myers, whose i home is at Rushville, accompanied • the body of Jesse Christen from ’ Wilmington, Dela.. arriving last night at Fort Wanye where they were met by the Gay, Zwieh & Myers atnbu- ■ lame. The funeral will be Friday ■ morning, and because the ban on public gatheiings prohibits indoor assemblies. will be held in the yard of 1 the John Christen heme on North Second street, with interment in the

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Deiatur cemetery. Sergeant Myers was a close friend ’ of Mr. Christen having been with him in service all of the time, including , the nine months at Camp Shelby, I Miss., tlv- two weeks at Ft. Niagara. N. Y., and the several months at Wil--1 tnirgton, Del., where both were on guard duty. He stated that all of the boys liked Jesse and he was well thought of. He. himself, talked with Jesse on the Saturday before the day he died, which was at midnight Sunday, and he seemed in good spirits and talked and joked and had no thought of dying. He went into see him every

HERE ARE SOME OF OUR PRICES—THOSE THAT WISH MAY FOLLOW The Fair Store Perfection Bread Telephone 844 Free Delivery Coffee is still on the advance. We have just received a large shipment of our famous S. & B. Steel Cut, and . several hans of the 16c hlend. Also plenty of other brands. BUY NOW AND SAVE MONEY: Several more boxes of RUB-NO-MORE SOAP 7c; 3 for 20c Daylight sc; Head Rice, lb 15c; Fresh Corn Meal Oyster Shells, cwt $1.75. Macaroni, 3 10c boxes for 20c SPECIAL! Saturday, with a $2.00 order of anything in the store we will include 5 bars of IVORY SOAP for 25c STOY E PIPE. Winter will soon be here. Special, Saturday, buy what you want, at, joint 19c Coal Hods 50c & 75c - . ■ BATH TOWELS. A nice assortment of Bath Towels has just come in. See them and buy now for Xmas. Plenty of Wash Rags and other nice items for the Xmas presents. Special on Ladies’ Extra Heavy Hose, worth 10c, Saturday pr. 25c FARMERS. BRING US YOUR EGGS AND BUTTER. WE WILL PAY THE HIGHEST PRICE. EITHER IN CASH OR TRADE. LAMPS, LANTERNS, DISHES, CUT GLASS and many other items. A few pieces of Ginghams, 35c value, while they last, yard 25c Yes, Xmas is a long time, in one way we look at it and veryclose in another way we look. Better buy early and help to win the war. Our stock is complete and we have some very good bargains. SEE US BEFORE BUYING YOUR MANY PRESENTS The Fair Store G. C. STEELE FERD BLEEKE

day but when he called on him Sunday, he was unconscious, and did not regain. He had been ill of pnumon’a since Thursday. The boys of Battery B. 12th Battalion. made ur a purse for the purchase of flowers, a part of which were purchased to send with the body, and the money for the remainder sent to purchase fresh flow rs on arrival here Sergeant Myers delivered over the personal effects of the dead soldier to his family and left this morning for Rushville that he may have a short visit with his parents before returning here to attend to the remainder of his official business and report for duty at Wilmington my Oct. 31. He knows all of the Decatur boys who were at Cantp Shelby. Os the thirty-three boys of the com-

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- pany, who were ill of pneumonia, but t three died. i He stated that Jesse had excellent eare. There were the best physicians ■ in charge and sufficient Red Cross 3 nurses. When his case grew more set ions, there war, a Red Cross nurse in charge of his case alone. > Overseas Y. M. C. A. war work to ; st share in the benefits of the United . War 'Work Campaign has depict d • the theological colleges, according 1 to interested and authentic observers. 1 Many a young man who, under oth r renditions, would have entered the ministry this year is in the American army. Many an older man who. mid' r t other conditions, would be preaching the gospel from his heme pulpit is - serving the gospel in Franca.