Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 278, Decatur, Adams County, 26 November 1918 — Page 2

DAI L Y D E M 0 C R A T, j Evary Evening Except: Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company JOHN H. HELLER President ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Secretary Subecription Ratee By Government Order, Cub hi Advance. One Week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier >6 00 One Month, by mall 36 cents Three Months, by mall SI.OO Six Months, by mall >1.76 One Year, by mall 33.00 One Year, at office 33.00 Single Copies I cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postbffice in Decatur. Indiana, as second-class matter. Hang on to your bonds and stamps, iuey are worth more than you paid for them and you are throwing your money away foolishly if you sell them at a discount. The Christmas drive for membership w ill stan within a few days in this county and every person should gladly pay bis dollar fee. Remember there are two million men overseas and they need the attention of the Red Cross. Os these a hundred thousand are in hospitals and under the care of the Red Cross. It requires money, a lot of it and it’s up to evei v good citizen to belong to this great organization of mercy." The death of Paul G. Hoopeprominent lawyer aud citizen, will cause much sorrow and regret in this community where he has spent hilife. An unusual man in many ways he was recognized as one of the be-1 students and best informed men it the city, a -great reader with a most wonderful library not only of law commentaries but of the best writers on every subject of interest, he made excellent use thereof. Beneath gruff exterior he hid many kindly and excellent qualities and he will be greatly missed. Thursday ought to be the thankful est. day ever in this country. Peace has come after twenty months of worry. sacrifice and labor and it has cottje with the greatly desired vi< tory. Autocracy has fallen and the people are in power again, the boys are coming home and we are again to assume a normal state. In addition the season has been a prosperous one. rich in quantity and quality, our nation is a cleaner, better land than ever, there is much to return thanks for. To be sure there have been many things only He who doeth all things best can understand but there are o many things to be grateful for that Thursday should be anil will be a most delightful day of Thanksgiving. We must not take chances on not making our quota for War Saving stamps The record made by Adams county has been so perfect. ?3 glorious and so splendid that it would be a blot to fail at this last moment. sutf-lent amount has been ple-yed to meet the $436 Sl'O allotted to the county but quite a number have not

XMAS HOSIERY A Dandy Line of Silk Hosiery For Christinas Gifts SI.OO the pair THE MYERS-DAILEY COMPANY

! taken tl.c st. 'is they have 4 ugu-i'd. This means « si u .iage and ’ it means that those who have broken' thefr pledge will have a Ixid record 1 on the government tiles, it is not too late to make good and every person ’ who hits promised should see that t every stamp they agree to take is ( paid for. And besides those who can t afford it should take more. They are • the very best investment and you are 1 doing yourself a great favor by buying ( them. H xuxaxtr.iw.ur.-.ußnKsnaixaxtnxja | SOCIETY I sxaxxßx:Rtxn: .nxnxx -anMam t Club Calendar Tuesday. War Mothers—Ben Hur Hall. Ever Ready S. S. Class- Mrs. B. it Farr. Wednesday. Shakespeare Club —Red Cross Shop Zion Lutheran Aid Schoolhouse. Christian Pastoral Helpers' Annual Thanksgiving Bake Sale—Gas Office. Thursday. Eastern Star Masonic Hall I Friday. P Philathea— Mrs. () P. Mills. Monday. Research Club- At Red Cross Shop Mr and Mrs. Ed Wilson and daughter. Jane, are coming tomorrow to 1 six-nd Thanksgiving with Mr. and 9 Mrs. J. S. Peterson and daughter., v Mr. Wilson who has been out of th? < ,t hospital two months, alter undergo- , ing a long siege of typhoid fever, is recovering nicely and expects to ’ ■ ; turn to work next Monday. il The Shakespeare club will meet Wednesdav afternoon from two ’to four in the Red Cross shop for sewing. 's -— o , n ancwK t g : I GOORT | ■S Tomorrow is the last day for filing ( e bills before the December session of ( county commissioners. , d Real estate transfers: John H. Hii 1 e ty. et al to Benjamin F. Burkett, ltrs 1 501. 502 and 503. Berne. SSOO. ' Judge I). E. Smith is at Bluff’on , 1- today. All are urged to be present at the r ’ meeting of the Philathea class of the e a Baptist Sunday school Friday evet’- • ing at 7:20 at the home of Mrs. O. i‘ p Mills on Tenth street. ] i- Huber M. DeVoss. Adams circuit J . court reporter, was named reporter for the grand jury now in session and took his oath as such this morning. — - MOONEY CASE. 1 1 (United Press Service! i San Francisco. Nov. 26 —(Special to Daily Democrat) - Seventeen days i yet to go before Tom Mooney hangs. Other developments in the case of Mooney, who was convicted of murder in connection with a preparedness parade bomb outrage here, paled before that fact today. If Mooney hangs, malt* union labor leaders believe the bolshevik! element in Amer r ica will make him its martyr and 'em , deavor to win union labor over to bolsheviki standards. Labor men are ’ making every effort to save Mooney. • though they insist their efforts are ■ based o:; a desire to see justice done rather than save one of their number. They base their claim for his ‘ life on a belief that he was convicted ' on perjured testimony. » • ’ o FIGHTING THE INFLUENZA (United Press Service') Indianapolis. Nov. 26—(Special to, Daily Democrat)- The fight again, t the influenza epidemic in Indiana was taken up by teachers today.”at the requeitt of Horace Ellis, state superintendent of public instruction. The disease continues to hold the state In its grip according to reports reaching the state board of health today. Nearly 2,000 new cases in In-, diana are being reported every 24 hours.

THE CRYSTAL THEATRE I Show 1 ’"" °dy Clean High Class Photoplays i TODAY 3 “JACK SPURLOCK-PRODIGAL.” It's a live-reel William B .•'•’ox production, featuring the famous screen acior. E. George Walsh. The story is adopted from a story in | fl Thia is a real show tonight. George Walsh is at his best. ■! 5 If you have seen the other Walsh productions, you will 1 see this one. If you haven’t seer: the other produc- Sj § lions, see this any how. 1 _

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GERMAN FUTURE SEEMS DOUBTFUL iContinued from Page One) duchy of Luxemburg was besought, today in a telegram from the grand ditches. She asked that he save 'he duchy from the istssage of German troops (probably meaning destruction committed by them) and that he protect nt the |ieace negotiations the rights of Luxemburg as a small, independent, free nation. The message was referred to the Versailles council. (United Press Service) 1 Geneva. Nov. 26- (Special to Dail.' , Democrat) —"The kaiser took wi'i ( him all the government gold and Ml- ( i ver securities, and used fraud to a t ; them past the customs authorities, says the Neue ' Lelpziger Zeitung. (United Press Service) Ixmdon. Not 25 (Delayed) AU American troops in British camps will iembark for the United States within ten days under plans announced by American military officials today. Only a tew hospital cases and staff officers wifi ite excepted. The Mauretania departed with a I ship load of soldiers today. Thi-ty American submarine chasers and i number of submarines left their Iri h home for home today accompanied by the parent ship Bucknell. They wete given an enthusiastic send off. (United Press Service) Washington. Nov. 26—(Special io Daily Democrat) — Alfred Ney. a- • Swiss has been designated by the Red Cross to go to Germany to take charge of sick and wounded American prisoners who cannot be moved at this time. A central hospital with American attendants, if possible, will be maintained. London. Nov. 26 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—(ll:lo a. in.)— Warning against a kniserlte counter-revolution the Berlin Vorwaerte. official organ of the Ebert government, declares: “That gangs of murderers are still planning to re-establish themselves.’ The Vorwaerte made the statement in commenting on the Bavarian disclosures of the origin of the war. It pointed out that the German government said it was ignorant of the Austrian ultimatum before it was delivcted to Serbia and that it said Vienna was exhorted to be moderate in its demands "The. facts are” said the Vorwaerte ‘ That Berlin incited Vienna. • Wilhelm said ’The enemy attacked us.’ Tills .js an,infamous, lie.” Copenhagen. Nov. 26—(Special ic Daily Democrat) — General Ludendorff. former commander in chief oi the German armies, has gone to Sweden, it was reported here today. Washington. D. C., Nov. 26 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—According to the plan now. President Wilson will sail for France on the former German liner George Washington, about December ?>. He will be accompanied by Mrs. Wilson, her private secretary, Miss Edith Benham, ami his confidential stenographer. Gilbert Close. In addition to the presidential party. the ship will also carry French Ambassador and Mrs. Jusserand and

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members of the American peace dele gallon These are expected to include Secretaries Lansing and Baker. ■ and ex-Atnbassudor Henry White. I George Creel will accompany the party There also will be u numberof unofficial guests aboard. 5, w York. Nov. 26-(Special to} Dail* Democrat) A pamphlet, ’’The Soviets at work.” by Nicholas Lenin 1 -' premier of the Russian bolshevik! gov- < eminent, which has been circulating j in New York and vicinity, has boon denied the mails by Postmaster Put- I ten of this city. — o— — Harold Eady, of the Great Iskcs Naval Training station, is here for a visit with his father. James Eady and I other relatives. He has been in tie ( mivv three months. (

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A hLW KIND OF THANKS6IVIND . You've never seen just such a Thanks- gk •living Day as you’ll have this year; you’ve \ never had so much to be thankful for, no \ matter what you’ve gained or lost in the | v/ W past months. i z This time Thanksgiving ought to be more /\ \i[f \ than an expression of our persona! gratifi- (Jk lIJ. f cation; it ought not to have any cloud of 4 our personal loss. J-; . ® Let us give thank that the w orld is being made safe for Liberty, for freedom of con-7 O science, for political restoration of the peo- 11 1 I pies of Europe. The greatest era has \ W* ’ dawned; the greatest events of history are |’i now moving. I ft I a We can be thankful that we have enough 111 | to eat; a good many people whose hunger | f I is as real as ours, haven’t enough. | J A Let us be thankful, too. for the brave | M | / J ™ men and women who have given all they p I ’ ' i have to winning the triumph of Liberty: h f copyright Hart Scheer s. Marx those who may return to us; those who have laid their lives flow n. Hart Schaffner Let us consecnfD ourselves to the great V y cause of international brotherhood." HOLTHOUSE, SCHULTE & CO. Good Clothes Sellers for Men and Boys.

NO HUNTING ALLOWED. L_ Notice is hereby given that hunting is not permitted on the Fonner Steck farm and violations of this or-j j der will result in prosecutions, j 276t6 W. P. SCHROCK. Mgr. NO HUNTING ALLOWED Notice is hereby given that hunting

or trespassing is positively forbidden iea our farms in French township. We have a large number of cattle on our place and hunters are liable to i shoot same. Violators will be prose‘cuted. 273430 ISCH BROTHERS. — Q— w " ■ VOTIVE OF lIXXL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE. Notice >< hereby given to the rrod-

itora, heirs an.l legate.'- of Edtvar l Gefer. deceased, to appear in V’ Atlants Circuit Court, held at Ven. tur. Jnd.. on the 21st d.o of Decen.be ISIS, and show cause, if anv. why the final settlement accounts with the «. tate of said decedent should not b, approved; and said heirs are notified to then and there make proof 8 i heirship, and receive their distributivi shares. FitEb GEIER, Administrator Decatur, Ind.. Nov. Ifi. l.ij-, Peterson & Moran. Attys. ij.d ■ o — Democrat Wants Ads Pay