Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 299, Decatur, Adams County, 21 December 1918 — Page 2

— . , W ',||||,H .»■—WWTE ! ' 1 I ■ <& jSraSKv3S» Will there be a Victrola in „ your home this Xmas? z .n-rnr.-^ '’***''/. few A gift for Xmas Day and every other day. •'$ “The Victor Talking Ma- || chine’s design. ‘His Master’s /$ Voice,’ has become a household ? SB! word, and the quaint little Fox I iml Terrier at attention before the | f 1 I Itjf hour is familiar to more Ameri- j 1 II cans than any of the world’s great masterpieces.”—Collier’s *% s |BHL4 Weekly. I I 1 $$ i I . Geraldine Farrar. Schumann <x | Hei nk. K roister. Paderewski and Bandmaster Sousa make records '■ exclusively for the Victor Talk- l-V-t.ZJ-Ji ing Machine Co. If we are temporarily out of •- If |1 W the style Victrola which you |*| q £? Lg have decided upon it w ill pay |J I fei you to wait upon the talking ma- L I chine that ail the world’s I I est artists prefer. B j THE HOLTHOUSE | I DRUG CO. -

PUBLIC SALE. As I have sold my residence. I will sell at public auction at ray home. 9-41’ Mercer Ave. on Saturday. I t 0.,, ceniber 28th. beginning at 12:30 o'clock, the folowing property: Ala hogany player piano, davenport, library table, pedestal, china closet. 6 rockers, dining room suite, 3 beds,

iffelrsH H b o' . kSk MT ' r i ! Er Al \ " IwX x- JX / wiTv ', WAW AwW WXgUI k 07 fcvFPß' ■w4M This used to be the Bridge Club —and many a joiiy afternoon they had, devotion to the Red Cross cause of hutoo, with their aces, and hearts, and inanity, without stint or murmur—their jacks, and trumps. work has been one of the finest, most Then the War came! enduring examples ci unselfish service x of America’s whole war experience. Brothers, husbands sons, sweethearts Thosc wonderful women hfve made the left home to be aces of the air, jacks of the foundation o f futute Red Cross work h navy or trumps of the American Army. b)g way> possib i e . That work must The afternoon meetings continued— of course-as long as American soldiers but the scenes changed to Red Cross are over the sea the Red Cross is necesworkrooms. And serious, busy fingers of sary—as long as emergency relief work hundreds of thousands of patriotic Amer- needs to be done. ican women worked day in and day out And now comes turn t 0 „ ake the to alleviate the suffermg of their loved carrying on of the Red cross work a ones, and yours, too, who responded so certainty-none of your time is asked fcmuiuiiy iu tne country s needs. for no S p ec j a ] effort—just the support They gave their time, and energy, and of your membership. lorn the Red Cross w « you neediste heart anda dollar * - .

springs and mattress, 2 dressers, large mirror, commode. F vorite base burner, 6 kitchen chairs, rug 12x12. good as new: 4 small rugs, sewing writing desk. tubs, crocks. jars and cans, and numerous other i articles. Terms: —Made known on dav of sale. MRS. F. X. MILLER. Roy Runyon. Auct. 23-26-27

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21. 1918

ORDER YOUR MILK. There will be no delivery of milk on Christmas day. Those wanting whipping cream or extra mj.lKlshould place their order not later than Monday evening. DECATUR SANITARY MILK CO. 295t2 C. E. Phillips.

|ls TO HIGHWAYS! Senator Duffy Gives Some 1 Idea of What New Indiana Law May be. |IS ON COMMISSION | Named by Governor to Assist in Drafting and Passing This Legislation. Jim A. Hendricks has returned from Indianapolis, where he attended a good roads meeting. Another: will be held Monday at the Claypool ' hotel an 1 to which the people of the state interested are invited. Good roads is to be the big question in the coming session of the legislature. L. W. Duffy, hold over senator, rnd L. H. Wright, senator, both of Marion : county, have been named by the governor to draft the law and to marshal it through. Mr. Duffy spoke at the meeting. He said: "We must get away from the common Macadam on the mam-traveled reads -one-.ve.ir roads — twenty year bends. Washington roads cost for maintenance (went••-three cents per mile, France eight and one-half cents. Germany sc v cn cents. There is some variation, due to the price of labor and material. In tips new highway law we prop.trto connect all county seats and all towns of 5.000 and over, malting approximately 3.500 miles of paved road. We propose that the stat, take over these main arteries at once, making them state highways for maintenance and upkeep and later on to be reconstructed by the state, through aid from the federal government. The national government now has $5,000,000,000 available for Indiana provided we produce a like- amount. They propose a tax levy of two per cent with a possibility of floating a $35,000,000 bond issue. The tisw law is to keep in mind the federal. state and county units and will not molest or at least put clear out cf business, the three-mile road law. though we think it should be cheeked some so as to stop the abuse of this law. On main roads, especially, the war through the use of motor trucks, has opened a new field. Our assistant postr i ’ master general was attending a national road meeting in Chicago last week when Mr. Burleson wired him io return to Washington at once, saying there had been several thousand trucks turned over to him for parcel post service. This service has been tried o'at on the federal roads of the east and has proven a good thing, making a handsome profit over th maintenance of the highway. It v oii't be many years until you will see such things closer hpme than Washington. D. C. Don’t you think it a good idea to put up some op]H< s-Jcn to our railroads inasmuch as wo are paying double rates on everything and with slow? "I think we sh ,’ get together ot* the road propositi.m. I think cooperation better than the cut-throat competition and reciprocity better than retaliation. Good many people think we still have ‘a highway comion law. h.’. tb.it law was declared unconstitutional and the fifty-fifty proposition lost. Now they have come lack with a much better proposition of connecting up county seats and large cities. The new law will take the auto and income tax now used for manitenance of roads for the upkeep of state roads. This will require an increased rate for that purpose in your home county. Think it over. ’ PRUSSIA LOST HEAVILY. New York, N. Y„ Dee. 21—When the total German casualties are published the number of dead will be about 2.000,060, acording to the, Cologne Gazette, of November 25. a copy of which has been received l. o. Up to October 25 yhe total casualties itP'.iied were 6.066,769, ot whom more than 4,750,000 were Prussians. The total includes the naval casualties. The Cologne paper uses the word appalling in describing ; the casualties among the officers. The total on October 24. which did s not include casualty lists from the : fighting on the western front after i that date not the German losses in I Palestine, was apportioned by the I paper as follows among the various .army continents: | Prussia; 1.282,060 dead, 2,882.671 i wounded, 616,133 missing. Total, ■ 4,760,870. I Bavaria: 150,658 dead wounded; <2,115 missing. Total. 586.536. Saxony: 108,017 dead, 252,627 wounded, 51.787 missing. Total 411,831. Wurttemberg: 64.507 dead. 155,654 wounded, 16.802 missing. Total 236.963 ■ Navy: 25.862 dead. 28,968 wounded. _ 15,679 missing. Total 70,509. r

FIRST GOOD BED, In a Year Enjoyed by Dor-' sie Gerard Recently— Going on Crutches. KICKED BY MULE Suffered Slight InjurySatisfied That He Got to (io Across. The following interesting letter h is been received by Mrs. M. H. Fee fro?j jher cousin, Dorsie Garard, netter kn< w as Dutch" here: Red Cross Hospital, Nov. 25. 1918. Dear Cousin: Have received your most welcome and interesting lettec but haven't had much of a chance, to answer it before this, lascause we have been on the move since the 26th day of Sept. We have been cn the front since that day until the 11th day of Nov. Then taned on a trip into Germany ?s occupation troops, so you can s-e about how’ busy I have been. Am in a base hospital. No. 678, at, Toul. Have been here for three days and four nights and have slept in a good bed for the first time for over a year. This place is sure welcome to me. 1 was on my way to Germanv I by foot wh>m I got mixed up with a government mule and he let me h t ’o it with both feet in my right leg. So that ended by hiking for some time anyway. Have been on crutches for three days but am getting along file.: No broken bones, just a slight wound and a good bruising up. Expect to get out’soon, but don’t think I w-1 get hack to my old outfit again. Haven’t any idea what w:R»beeome of me when I do get out. They are sending, most cf the patients back to the C. i S. but don’t know if I will be luck’’ enough to get. back or not. But don't 1 think it will be more than two months ■ before I get back anyway. > JVfll try and tell you ot' some of t’”.ej places I have been in honing it goes ■ . through. 1 sailed from Hoboken. N’. ; , J. on the 22nd day of May. Had a . good trip on the liner Northern Pa- . cific. Arrived In the seaport. Br<’-t, t France, on Decoratkvu Day. I w.i i then sent by rail to the southern pa»‘. , of France to a camp for artillery ■ training at Bordeaux, France. W. s ■ in this camp for about two months i and then was sent to the Chateat;i Thierry front; was on that front for I about a month. Was in Fev-en-Tard- ’ onious, Fismes. Scherry and a few mere towns that I don t remember : I was then sent to the St. Mihiel front; 1 on the Metz sector, was there only ;■ : : short time when wc were sent to the -.Verdun front, at a town named Aisrn 1 at the. beginning of the last drive. We ’ were under shell fit,’ for 30 days. Was stationed in a town named t’uky for meat of the time. Seme cf the towns on that front are: Sepsargcs, 1 Betinruurt. Malencourt. Montfacicon. and a few more. Was on that front until the armistice was signed. Started then for Germany. Hiked so tv;a days, rested for four days at Mecrtn. then started for a 150 mile hike. Thon is when I got kfeked. Have also been in a few more s I interesting cities such as Tours, Paris . Nance. Nancy. So you can see that I ; have been over most all of i-'rance. Maybe all ot these towns are r. spelled right but I think you can make t them out. I am still well salisfied’that I came across, because I think that any person that hasn’t seen this' country has t missed a whole lot. 1 expect to '<■<■ •heme soon and will tell you a lot more , interesting things. It’s almost he ! time so will have to close for this ( time. You can wrtte to the same adI dress as before as the mail will be . forwarded to me. , ' • t - Will close with lots of love and 1 -■ beet, wishes to you all. i remain Your cousin, r DORSIE. _ , o _ MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ] LOST FROM ILL HEALTH, s The first and most important par triotic duty has been to go into the 1 trenches to fight for one’s country. 8 The men who have gone into the s trenches have-left to those who re- ! mained in this country a truly pa1 triotic duty, and one which ranks a . close second to service in the trenches. It is to conserve the gen-‘ 1 era! h alt:,. j It has been stated by th •-eheinnan : of the industrial investigation com- ' mitee of Boston that sixty million I dollars a year arc lost, to the workers in this country trough ill health.' - Each one of our thirty odd million I w-’.-re earners loses an average of nine days’ work a year from this , cause, ad. an average cost of $2 a nay. The prevention of disease in indus-

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