Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 17, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 30 January 1919 — Page 1

Volume XVII. Number 26.

WILL DISCHARGE ■ MORE SOLDIERS 350,000 Men in This Country Will be Demobilized Within Fifteen Days. TO PROVIDE WORK I For Unemployed is Duty of ; This Country—A Crisis ■ in Peace Conference. (United Press Service) ■ Washington, D. C., Jan. 30—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Demobilization of soldiers in this country booked for immediate discharge will be completed within the next fifteen days, according to information today. About 350.000 soldiers in United States camps now remain to be discharged at once. From 350,000 to 400.000 others will be required to remain in service some time longer to take care of duty such as the board of control, demobilization, hospital work and problems requiring some months’ further duty. K Washington. D. C., Jan. 30—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Congress must legislate at once to provide work for the unemployed, if the spread of bolshevism in the United States is to be stopped. Secretary of Labor Wilson declared today. it The unemployment problem will solve itself if American business men would forget their fears of a panic and resume normal activities. Wilson told the house and senate labor committees this today. (By J. R. Bender, United Press staff correspondent i J,in - Special to Daily Democrat) America’s participation in tho peace settlement may depend on the decision reached regarding dis-I-osition of the German colonies, it I'wau estimated today. ■Hf-pro ident Wilson believes the leagn- of nations the principle of which was unanimously adopted only last Saturday—will be given its death blow if the allies now insist on divid- ' (Continued on Page Four! TOTBWICK Traction Rails Extending to Clover Leaf from Interurban Station WILL BE REMOVED Material Which is Very High Will be Used ElseB where on the Line. — 1. W. Greenland, manager of the Northern Indiana Tr. ition Company, and of the Ft. Wayne-Decatur Trac tion Company, was here yesterday i on business with the city officials relative to granting the privilege of tearing up and removing the traction line from tho interurban station south, which extends to the Clover Leal railroad. «The material in this track, which is wholly useless is much needed by tiiej K company elsewhere, and will be used to more ad vantar.' The company a number ot years ago had extended the line south to the Clover Leaf railroad and had operat- . ed cars to that point as a terminal. B&his has been discontinu d for some 'V time. and since the interurban station ■ was moved two blocks south from its former location, had given even more unused track. When the interurban feittaiim was moved to its present IoSmtion. the overhead line was also re-1 ■SBOved over this portion that opcrat led through the city south, and the Bails have been wholly useless. It fewas the intention to use this as a St part of the extension of the line south Bhrougii Portland and other points. btH the fact that it will be removed ■Biiow. seems to indicate that furl er ■Extension of the line at this time, lias ■f.been abandoned, at least until e ■S* price of materials goes lower. J Workmen will begin on tearing up ' the line as soon as possible.

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GYM MEETING TONIGHT All who have donated towards th I gym fund and all who are interests •'in this project are requested to niee )!at the gym at 8:15 this evening so the purpose of discussing plans am i making arrangements to proceed witl „ the work. Please be there. We nee< your cooperation and advice. M. F. WORTHMAN LOST IS° FOUND Tho first letters received by Mr. -Hind Mrs. Charles Hawkins, from theii Ison, W. P. Hawkins, since October 6 ! came today, bringing added assurance • in addition to the telegram from. Con grossman Vestal, that he is safe. He is in Germany, according to the date I January 6 of ono written which I will be published sooii. FiiTrefifimr AGAINST BILL Adams County Citizens Protest Against Law Preventing Teaching of German THE SUFFRAGE LAW Is Recommended for Passage in Senate—Moving Picture Bill Introduced. (United Tress Service) Indianapolis, Jan. 30 —(Special to ! Daily Democrat )—Petitions protesting against the law preventing the teach- ! ing of German in grade schools, deiluged the house today. The bill was j made a special order of business for I February 6. The protests were from German I Lutheran church organizations. Ren-1 resentative Walker presented a peti-l tion from 75 patrons of the Lutheran! Evangelical parochial school of Adams county against the bill. “We desire to teach our children their catachisin in German in the German language so as to give them tho required instruction and know-1 I ledge in their religion,” said the pro-1 test. The house today wont on record j | against a law prohibiting employers from procuring injunction against I strikers when it refused to accept a committee report, recommending passage of a day hill. The bill was sent back to the committee. The eight proposed amendments to the constitution introduced by Senat-! or English passed second reading in !the upper house. By a vote of 85 to 6 the house passed the Cooper bill providing for appeals to court from decision of the state board of health. The Johnson bill granting women tho right to vote for presidential electors. which has been passed by the :house, was recommended for passage I by the senate committee. A bill allowing moving picture ! theatres to open on Sundays after 1:30 in the afternoon was introduced by 1 Senator McCray. The measure also provides for censorship of films by mayors or police authority. Senator Rapps introduced another I registration bill. It provides the registration shall be done by township assessors, who shall receive 10 cents I for each voter registered. "cheers for the u. s. (TTn!t»r> Press Service) Budapest, January 29 —Hungarians Conducted enthusiastic demonstra lions throughout the country today, cheering the United States and the‘ allies as a result of the peace confer-1 ence note warning that claims to ter-' ritory occupied by force will receive no recognition at the peace table. | The Hungarians regarded this warning as directed particularly at the' Rumanians and Jugo-Slavs who have been encroaching on Hungarian soil. A new crisis has been forced in ' Count Karolyi's cabinet due to bur- ; geoisie attacks. —o — "■ M. B. & C. WANT BOOST (United Press Service) > Indianapolis, Jan. 30 (Special to j Daily Democrat)—The Marion and! i Bluffton Traction company, today filed i a supplemental petition to its request for the Public, Service Commission for I fares. The company has i- asked the right to charge an addition s.lof a cent a mile for cash fares. This . w'ould bring the rates up to 3 cents for cash fares and 2% cents for tickr> ets. Commissioner Edwards has charge of the case. 1

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Evening, January 30, 1919.

. ANOTHER VICTOR) ;d! et • ar Decatur Boys Win Seconc ' h i Game from the Columbia City High School. AT COLUMBIA CITY lr Score Was 24 to 15—Geneg e ! va Boys Will Play Here i Friday Evening. } i ————— h The Decatur high school basket ball team journeyed to Columbia City last evening where they clashed with the fast. Columbia City high school team, and which they defeated by a score of 24 to 15. This is Decatur's second victory over the Columbia City five r this season. The game proved to be slow and listless, as there were many fouls on both sides. The Decatur live greatly outclassed the Columbia City boys in passing the ball, and proved to be the better in putting the ball through the ring. At no time did the outcome of the game look blue for the local five. - The line was: i Decatur Columbia City ; Myers F MacNabb . Beery F Spaulding Thomas C Gates-Harber Tyndall-Teeple Archbold G Syrson Baltzell G Keister Summary: Field Goals—Beery. 2; Myers, 4: Thomas. 4; MacNabb, 1; , Spaulding. 2; Harber. 3. Foul goals— J Decatur, 4: Columbia City, 3. Ref- . eree, J. A. Ritter, of Fort Wayne. Next Friday night, the Decatur higli school huskies will meet the fast Geneva eagers, at the athletic hall. The boys have been putting in some good work, and are pretty confident they will pull down another victory. An--1 other feature of the evening will be the preliminary game to be played between Fisher's Regulars and Macy’s Irregulars. Game called at 7:30. Be there. o C. L. OF C. NOTICE All members of the C. L. of C. are i requested to meet to attend the funeral of their sister. Mrs. Margaret 1 (Geimer, Saturday morning. UNSETTLED - YEAR Cause of Marriage Dearth —-But One Marriage in Congregation of ST. MARY’S CHURCH In Y ear 1918—Largest Congregation in Community —War is the Cause. According to an announcement made recently from the pulpit by the Rev. J. A. Seimetz, pastor of the St. Marys Catholic church, there was but one Wedding in the congregation i during the year, 1918. This was owing to the unsettled condition occa- ■ . sioned by the war. This is very re-1 ( markable inasmuch as the congregant ion which contains 1400 souls, is the’ I largest one in the community. This is in line with the annual statistical report as made recently by County Clerk Will Hammell and his ! deputy, John T. Kelley, in which it was shown that but 125 marriage licenses were issued during the year, in the whole county, being but half the number of normal years. However, with the return of the soldiers and the close of the war, allowI ing plans for the future, the marriage situation is already becoming brisker and not only have a great many marriages already taken place thus early this year, but there are many more scheduled. MRS. GEIMER'S FUNERAL i Mr. H. J Yager of the firm of ! Yager Bros. & Reinking, arrived home I yesterday afternoon from Fort Wayne where he took charge of the remains of the late Mrs. Fred Geimer, whose > death occurred in that city. The body i was brought here in the Yager Bros. i & Reinking ambulance and taken to i the Geimer home southwest of the - city. The funeral will be held Saturs day morning at nine o’clock from the St. Marys church.

/ TRACTION HEARING FIXED Official notice has been received from the public service commission (hat tlie petition of the Fort Wayne d & Decatur Traction company for auth ority to increase its basic interurban fares from 2‘< cents to 2% cents per mile, computed on the copper zone j system, has been set for hearing at I the court, house, at Fort Wayne, rt f I one o’clock p. m„ Saturday, February ! 8 th. BIG FEED AT ELKS. A reception and banquet will be given the past exalted rulers of the I Elks' lodge tonight at the hall, i Plenty of eats for the occasion. Mem 1 hers be there. • FIGURES FROM ■ SUGAR FACTORY 9 j a ! “ Made Over Thirteen Million . Pounds of Sugar at Decatur Factory in 1918. 1I t ’ > THE NEW CONTRACTS Indicate That Large Sums ) : Will be Paid to Adams County Farmers. I —■—‘ ’! During the campaign which just closed at the Decatur plant of the Holland-St. Louis Sugar company . Adams county farmers received in cash for beets the sum of $49,348.58. Just at this time the agriculturists are busy signing up contracts and we are informed that at this time the I number of acres contracted for in the county is double the number at this time last year. In other words it now’ j seems possible that Adams county I farmers will receive next year more than SIOO,OOO for their beets. Some idea of the business done by the sugar company is found in the following figures: Paid for Freight ! On beets $59,571.42 I On coal 26.169.25 lOn limestone 6,195,34 lOn coke 813.78 I Miscellaneous 3,421.20 Total $96,170.99 Paid for Labor I January $2,236.98 ; February 2,250.45 ; March 2,317.24 I April 2,769.91 May 3,015.25 June 3,311.09 July 4.128.151 August 5.177.14 September 5,846.61 October 20,689.84: November 27,869.80 December 35,360.14 Total $.114,980.88 j This is an average of $383 per day for 300 days and equal to a factory! operating 300 days a year and using 100 men at average pay of $3.83 per ; day for each man. , During the 1918 campaign the De- , I catur plant made 13,289,000 pounds of , sugar, a record exceeded only one , year, 1915, when they made 15.100.000 ] (pounds. An improvement is shown . : by the tact that the 1918 output was I from 51,000 tons of beets while in ( 1915 thpy iispd 73.000 tons. ETHEL SMITH LOW ’ H. S. Chase and daughter. Inez, of south of the city, will leave to-, morrow for Jonesboro where they are | called by the serious illness of their . s|tep-danghter andl step-sister. Ethel f Smith, aged six, who is very low of } pneumonia at the home of her grand- ; parents.' The little girl's mother, < Mrs. H. S. Chase died about a month 1 ! ago of pneumonia following influenza. I The little girl at that time was ill of ■ influenza, with other members of the Chase family, but had recovered and in fact, none of them were consider-: ed serious at the time. DICK TOWNSEND BETTe"r A letter from our old fYiend. Dick Townsend, who has been suffering from a nervous breakdown for several weeks, says he is in fine condition now and challenges Nick Miller to a running race for any amount of ‘ money. He is stopping at the Hyde i Park hotel and had intended coming • here this week but has decided not to s return until the flu epedemic has sub- : sided.

THE CITY BAND I, e' i If Decatur Wants One for r Next Summer it Should ' be Organized Now. t v SAYS MR. SELLEMEYER Some Idea of the Cost and > What Other Live Towns Do Along This Line. Does Decatur want a band? Every live city has a good band i and in many places such an organiza- ■ tion is maintained by the city. A state! law provides that a city council can appropriate a sun- not to exceed $1,200 for this purpose. At Hartford City the sum of S9OO is used each year and as a result they have a real band. During the past five years. Mr. Albert Sellemeyer has devoted much! I time and ability to forming and hold-i ing a band together. It has been a! ■ difficult, job and anything but renumI erative. In an interview today he said he was willing to assume the j work as leader if the organization can be financed. One man it is said has agreed to provide the rent but there l are other expenses, besides which there should be a fund from which to pay the band as the money is earned. When the recent soldiers reception! was held, it developed that a band as good as the one we had here a few I months ago would cost about $l5O for i one day’si service. That price when | compared to the usual $25.00 or $30.00 1 : paid locally frightened the committee. It shows w’hat may be expected un-1 less we hack a band. If we have a band in June the work of preparing should begin in March. Mr. Sellemeyer itemizes expenses as I follows: Rent. $60.00; music, $50.00; fuel, $20.00; incidentals. S7O; total. | S2OO. Any plan that will raise the money will ho published and there I , ought to be some interest in this matI ter which is important. Think it over and tell us what you feel ought to be done. Remember a good town has a good band. WORKERSJNLINE Ready to Begin Drive in I City Sunday Afternoon I ■ for Armenian Relief. i TO PUSH RAPIDLY ’ i Charles Teeple Organizer of City—Efficient Staff of ( ( Co-workers. — The drive in this city for funds for saving the starving Armenians and f other Christians under Turkish rule, f who are facing death in the desert, g cut off from all food except that. P which is brought in to them, will be f held next Sunday afternoon, beginning c at 1 o'clock. j, Charles Teeple. organizer of the| city, has his force of solicitors lined up and the drive will be pushed' through rapidly. The following are the workers: First Ward ( Precinct A- H. S. Michaud, captain f F. V. Mills, Oscar Lankenau, I. Bern- f stine, Hugh Hite, Frank Carroll, D. Schmitt. T. J. Durkin. Wm. Klepper, Ed Engler, M. E. Andrews, H.| Schroll, Avon Burk. Fred Smith, Ed! Green. Dr. Mangold, Leonard Merry-' man, Charles Knapp. Precinct B—Martin Mylott, captain Tom Dowling. Miss Ode Fullenkamp,! J. E. Anderson, Miss Fan Hammell,! Ira Bodie. Mrs. G. A. Myers, F' Aughenbaugh, Miss Marie Gass. ..Second Ward Precinct A—Clayson J. Carroll, captain: J. C. Sutton. Bernard Terveer, Bprt Hunsicker, Dan H. Tyndall. H. M. DeVoss, Irvin Brandyberry, C. E. Connely, French Quinn. O. H. Ode>l, W. P. Schrock, E. X. Ehinger, Burton Niblick, Albert Sellemeyer, Oscar Hoffman, C. H. Colter, J. L. Kocher, A. D. Suttles, Joe Berling, Henry B. Heller, Joe Lose. Precinct B—R. E. Mumma, captain; Chas. Sether, Roy Baker, Chas. Lose, Frank Fisher, O. P. Mills, Ben

I Hoagland, Fred Heuer, Martin Miller, Joe McFarland, J. D. Beery, Sam Butler, John Burk. Third Ward Precinct A L, W. Stolte. captain; jFerd Peoples, C. D. Lewton, Wm. Zwick, Jacob Atz, Jesse Niblick. Frank W. Downs, Harry Fritzinger. | John T. Myers, Eli Myers, Richard Boch. • Precinct B—E. B. Lenhart, captain; John T. Moran, Martin WorthI rnann, Harvey Steele. Herman F.hinger. John R. Parrish, Ijiwrence Kleinhenz, Henry Thomas, Frank McConI nell, Wai Wemhoff, Henry Gerke. James Rice, Charles M. Christen. T. H. Ernst. T. w Fred Blosser John Thompson. W. F. Beery. Pete I Gaffer. Harve Elzey. John J. Myers. DIED (F GRIEF Mrs. Abraham Bierie Follows Daughter and Son-in-law in Death. AFTER TWO WEEKS i Worry Over Death, Together With Weakness from Flu, Causes Death. ’ I 1 The Berne Witness says: , “Surviving her daughter and son- i | in-law only about two weeks. Mrs. Abraham Bierie died at her home in : j Hartford township Monday evening 1 after suffering from the influenza for f three weeks. < “Deceased was born in Hartford ' township. May 20, 1854, thus bringing 1 ( her age to 64 years, 8 months and 7 1 (days. She grew up to woman hood in 1 I the community and was married to ! j Mr. Bierie January 22. 1878, I “To this union two daughters and • one son was Horn, all of whom pre-! 1 ceded her in death. ‘‘Two of the children died when ■ ; quite young. Only one daughter, Mrs. < ! Christian Zimmerman, grew to worn- ( an hood. She and her husband had: c lived on the home place and had ( managed the farm. Two f I weeks ago the two young people -were' < | buried in the same grave, victims cf ! the flu. Mrs. Bierie, who at that time! I ! was also ill of the disease, was so as-: 8 I fected by the loss that she lost her | I mind, and has since been in poor health mentally. Her physcal con- 3 ditlon became correspondingly weaker ■ until she died Monday evening. “Only the two brothers and a sister and al ittle grandson survive. Her: brothers are Frank Twigg, of Five! Lakes, Mich., and Ben Twigg of Ge- j neva, and the sister is Mrs. John Bierie. “Funeral services were held Wed- y nesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock from Old Salem church. Rev. Byron Smith officiating. Burial took place at the A Iberson cemetery. “ 808 NACHTRIEB CABLES Mrs. Roy Archbold this morning re-1 celved a cablegram sent by wireless from her brother. Bob Nachtrieb. ser- ,0 genat major with the 183rd division, ■ s ’ enroute home from France. He is! four days out from Brest aboard the i ei cruiser Frederick and expects to land in New York Sunday. o — i C DR. ARCHBOLD IS BETTER 0 Dr. Roy Archbold, who was Strick ‘ en yesterday with a fainting attaiki Is greatly improved today and expects ■ to soon be able to return to his work ' He has been suffering from a severe. cold since Sunday I DECATUR M. E. CIRCUIT. The pastor will preach at Washing- v ton Sunday morning at 10:45. Re-ic vival will begin at Beulah Chapel Sunday evening. All people of the ; : community are most cordially invited ■ to these services. j P. B. LEACH, Pastor , t ~iNSURANCE°MEN IMEET 1 J. S. Peterson, Walt Johnson, L.jo C. Helm. John Schultz and other local insurance agents went to Fort Wayne 1 J this morning to attend a meeting of agents of northern Indiana, to be addressed by a New York man. o i CARD OF THANKS c We wish to thank the neighbors ( and friends for their kind assistance p and sympathy, also Rev. Sill for his t condolence during the sickness and f death of Mrs. Harvey. v CECIL HARVEY & CHILDREN h I

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MANY PB08LEIK? Incident to the Reconstruction Period Will be Taken I p at Conference IN FORT WAYNE Os Civilian Relief Department of the Red Cross— Adams Co. Workers. “Present Day Tasks of Home Service” and “The Future of Social Service” are some of the topics listed tor disieussion the first day of the regional conference nt Fort Wa; ,o (Ind.) arranged by the civilian R.lief Department. Division, American Red Cross, to be held Feb:>:.■;• y 7 and 8. Home Service workers from lien, DeKalb. Steuben, LaGrange, Noble, Whitley, Huntington, Wells, Adm.is. Wabash, Kosciusko, Marshall, Miami, Cass, Fulton counties have been invited to confer with representatives from the Civilian Relief Department of the Ijike Division. The second day of the conference will be devoted to community welfare and demobilization problems, and "The Reconstructing and Re-educat-ing of the Crippled and Disabled Man” will be the speakers’ topic at the public mass meeting to be held the evening of February 8. The headquarters for the representatives will be the Anthony Hotel, (’:. Wayne, while the meetings and luncheons will take place at the Chamber of Commerce. Red Cross Chap. ..■ Chairman B. Paul Messman will bo chairman at the luncheon, Friday, February 7 and C. M. Niczer, Hc.me Service Chairman of the Fort Wav o Red Cross chapter, will preside at the public mass meeting Friday night. Mayer Cutshall is to lie chairman i f the luncheon Saturday. February 8. The tentative program includes such speakers as Starr Cadwallader, ass >• ciate director of the Lake Division Civilian Relief Department in charge of the Bureau of Health and Aft - Care, and Dr. R. J. Colbert, assistant director in charge of the Borom of Education, Publicity and Research. MRSTSCHUGDEIB Mrs. Phiiip Schug Died at Berne Following Week’s Illness. DUE TO PARALYSIS Was Fifty-four Years of Age—Funeral Services Will be Sunday. Mrs. Philip Schug. fifty-four, well mown Brone lady, died yesterday folowing a stroke of paralysis whi h the suffered last Thursday evening The deceased was Miss Anna Striker before her marriage and although she was a native of Ashland county, Ohio, born April, 1864, she had, ho - aver, lived in Monroe townshb s county since her early cliiltllio ■ ’ it was there that she was marr’.-d to Philip Schug, one of the enterp (sing business men of Berne. Four children were born to th :n: Otto, w’ho met sudden death in North Dakota u number of years ago: Jesse A, living at Wyandotte. Mich.; Cora, wife of Chester V. Milliken, of Wells county; Everett J., associated with his father in the insurance business in Berne. Mrs. Schug was a member of the Berne Evangelical church and it there that the funeral will be he 1 I Friday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock lowing a service at. the home at t o’clock. The deceased was a sister-in-law cf Mr. and Mrs. John Schug of this city. SISTER IS VERY LOVJ Mrs. Sam Dcak will leave Friday to be at the bedside of her sister, Mr;. Samuel Pickering, of Tippecanoe City, 0.. who is dangerously ill in the hospital at Piqua. O. where she has been taking treatment. She has been ill for two years of anaemia and is now very low. She is well known to many iere.