Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 17, Number 89, Decatur, Adams County, 14 April 1919 — Page 1

Volume XVII. Number 89.

I VICTORY LOAN IS ANNOUNCED — Will be for Four and a Half! Billion Dollars With 4% % Interest on Them. OPENS NEXT MONDAY No Oversubscriptions Al- , lowed—Exempt from Lo- | cal and State Tax. (United Press Service) Chicago. Apr. 14—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The seventh federal re serve district has been given a Vic tory Loan quota of $652,000,000, Governor J. B. McDougal announced today. Allottments for sub-divisions of the district are: Chicago, $189,225,000.

Illinois, $84,825,000. lowa, $110,925,000. Michigan, $110,925,000. Indiana, $81,562,500. Wisconsin, $75,037,500. McDougal said he believed the definite terms of the loan, together with the reduced amount would inspire a ' responsive feeling amongst buyers. Washington, April 14—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Uncle Sam wants less money on the “Victory Loan" than had been expected. All he needs now is $4,500,000,000. He’s ready to pay 4% per cent on partially exempt four year treasury notes to get it. This was revealed by Secretary ! Glass in announcing details of the Victory Loan. The popular subscription campaign will open one week from today. Size of the forthcoming issue was a surprise, as Glass previously had spoken of a fiveo r six billion loan. In addition all over-subscriptions will be rejected, the treasury also reserving the right to redeem the notes in three! years. The 4% partially exempt notes will be convertible into 3% exempt notes. The 3% per cent notes will not be issued immediately so the transfer back, if desired, would have to l>e made later. The 4% per cent notes are exempt ‘ fro mstate and local taxes, excepting estate and inheritance taxes and from normal federal income tax rates. 'The 3% issue will be exempt from! all federal, state and local taxes, except estate and inheritance taxes. Glass said the fifth Victory Loan would be the last to be floated by a popular campaign. K 1 The Victory Loan campaign will bo ended May 10th. Government requirements over the amount raised by taxes and other incomes, Glass t t indicated can be “readily financed by the issue of treasury certificates from time to time as heretofore, which may be ultimately refunded by ' the issue of notes or bonds without the aid of another great popular cam paign such as characterized the Libg erty loans.” While over subscriptions are to be rejected, allottments will be made in full up to and including SIO,OOO. The notes of both Issues will be

dated and bear interest from May 20. * 1919, maturing May 20, 1923. Interest will be payable on December 15th, 1919, in time for Christmas j shopping, and thereafter semi-annual .< ly, "I am sure,” said Glass, “that thej people of America will subscribe to I : this Victory Loan in the same spirit • of patriotism which they have shown, in the past to the end that the notes| may be as widely distributed as possible and that our banking institutions may be left free to supply thej credit necessary for the purpose of industry and commerce and the fu - lest employment of labor. Let t e world see that the patriots of America. out of their boundless resources and with the same enthusiasm and devotion to country with which they prosecuted the war to a victorious conclusion, are determined to finish, the job.” , SECURE GOOD ORCHESTRA The Junior ' r fa's '. for their bigi dance to be given at the Masonic hall April 24, have secured one of the famous Franklin orchestras, of For Wayne. The tickets are still selling fast and if you wish to attend this, grand and glorious Junior Hop y should get tickets at once.

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’ , I '■■■ — ■ . — PLEASE LOAN YOUR CAR The transportation committee for the Victory Loan is working over time these days securing cars to make the various trips necessary to 'complete the organization. It is a hard job but you can make it much | easier if you will comply with re ‘ quests when your turn comes. Let's I all do a little and it. will be easy. ROY ARCHBOLD, Chairman HOMF FROM WEST Mrs. Fred Schafer and Mrs. ' C. C. Schafer Return from Delightful Visit. MET DECATUR PEOPLE At Los Angeles, Cal.—Entertained in Pleasant Way in Their Homes.

Mrs. Fred Schafer and daughter-in-law, Mrs. C. C. Schafer, and son, Dan, arrived home from a several weeks' visit in the southwest, during which time they had a most delightful visit. They went first to El Paso, Texas,. where they spent several days, and then to Tucson, Arizona, where they enjoyed two weeks. From Tucson they went to Phoenix. Arizona. From this place, an auto stage drive byway of the famous Roosevelt dam, and the many other beautiful natural scenic features, made their stay here particularly pleasant. Their long sojourn, however, was at Los Angeles. Cal., where they ■ spent six weeks. Their stay there! was very pleasant by reason of meet-1 ing many former Decatur people. J They were entertanied in the homes ' of M. Burns and family and Mrs. ' Mary Crawford and daughter, Edna, ' on several occasions, and it was due to their most delightful hospitality that their stay there was made so pleasant. They are also indebted to a nephew of J. C. Waring, John Waring. a banker of Los Angeles, who, with his family, entertained them so pleasantly in their home and with their car, in which they enjoyed many sight-seeing trips. Mrs. Elizafceth Morrison also called on them at their hotel, but they were prevented from seeing her in her home by the fact that Mrs. Fred Schafer became ill, and was unable to go around during the latter part of her stay there. She is, however, improved again. NO SPECIAL SESSION. (United Piess Aervlce) Indianapolis, Ind., April 14 —(Specials Daily Democrat)—There will be no special session of the legislature to correct the county until road law. Governor Goodrich said this afternoon. He based his statement on the ruling of Attorney General Stansbury, in which the attorney general’ held that township trustees may con-j tinue supervising the roads under di rection of the county commissioners. A previous ruling of the attorney general had held that legislative ac tion was necessary to straighten the muddle surrounding the act and it was on that ruling that Governor Goodrich based his assertin last week that a special session likely would be called.

STATE LOAN NEWS. (United Press Service) Indianapolis, Ind., Apr. 14—(Speccial to Daily Democrat) —Indiana , must subscribe $95,454,200 to the Victory Loan, it became known today. This total included the sixty-eight northern counties in the seventh federal reserve district and those counI ties in southern Indiana which are in the eighth district. The northern I counties are asked to subscribe $Bl,562,500 and the southern counties $13,891,700. Headquarters for the ’two districts are Chicago and St. Louis, respectively. The seventh district quota is $652,000,000. Receipt of the quota for the state added impetus today to the advertising and selling campaign of the state loan headquarters. It was announced that plans are progressing on full speed for the welcome home day when Hoosier fighters of the 150th field artillery—Rainbow division—leaves the i train at Indianapolis to .receive their discharges. o ■ WALTER CABLE ARRIVES. Miss Viola Hullinger received word of the arrival of Walter Cable from ; ■ overseas. He is in the hospital in i ’ New York, but expects to get home I sometime this month.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday Evening, April 14, 1919.

WEDATHILLSBAtE 'I Fred Beery and Miss Lutie Kelley of Kansas City, Mo,, Married Tuesday. WILL LIVE HERE On Farm West of City—Met Four Years Ago When Groom Worked in West Fred Beery, son of Mr. and Mrs. Christ Beery, returned from a north- 1 ern trip bringing with him a bride, j formerly Miss Lutie Kelley, of KanI sas City, Mo., to whom he was mar-! I ried last Tuesday afternoon at Hills-j dale, Mich., by the Rev. Mr. Will, of! the Presbyterian church. The bride is a daughter of Mrs. F. E. Kelley, of Peabody. Kas., and Mr. Beery first met her when he was working at. Peabody, four years ago. Miss Kelley who is a stenographer, had been employed at Kansas City until lately. Last Tuesday she arriv-! ed in Fort Wayne, according to their: pre-arranged plan and Mr. Beery met' her there. They proceeded by auto mobile to Hillsdale where they were I married. They went to Michigan, as the laws of the state of Indiana pro-’ vide that the bride Ire a resident of the state for thirty days before the marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Beery have returned: here and they will make their home : on the farm across from that of the! bridegroom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Christ Beery, west of the city. HOMEANDHAPPY Lieut. Will Adler Greeting Friends After Long Service in the Army. A GREAT EXPERIENCE Fought at St. Mihiel and Argonne and Was in Front of Metz at End. Lieut. William Adler, a fine looking up standing young officer, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Adler of Kirkland; township, called at this office Saturday evening, having recently returned from eleven months service overseas. He has had a wonderful experience, and was in charge of a battery just in front of Metz When the firing ceased at eleven o’clock November 11th He does not attempt to hide his ela-’ tion over the fact that the war is over and he is home. He knows what the cost would have been in lives. His command were under orders at the time for an advance to be made that very night, which was expected to end in the capture of the city of Metz. Lieut Adler left here a private, en- : listing early in the war. He was later sent to a training camp and then overseas, going over with Jessie Cole of this city. He was made a lieutenant after several weeks special in-! struction in France and took part in a number of battles. He was in the fight at St Mihiel, the Woof! sector. | the Argonne woods, most frightful of j all and was in front of Metz when the ! end came. Later he was 1 sent to Lux I embi’.rg and into Germany and left ' for home the 24th of January, arriving two weeks ago. He is in gcod ! health and smilingly happy to be I home. LECTURE°ON BIRDS Miss Margaret Hanna of Ft. Wayne ' will give a lecture on birds at the I Central school building on Wednesday evening at eight o’clock, April ! 16th. Tickets may be purchased from the high school boys and girls and are selling for twenty-five cents each. WAS PALM SUNDAY Palm Sunday, the Sunday before 1 Easter .was celebrated in the St. ' ’ Marys church yesterday, at which time the distributing of palms took place. This week is also Holy Week ’ in the chui-h, and special services, I will ba held throughout the week, bei ginning Thursday, an continuing each i day until Easter. The regular lenti en services will be held Tuesday night.

I +++++-i-+ + + + + + + + ' + TANKS DELAYED. + * + + + Word has been received that + + the whippet tank due here to- + + morrow has been further delay- + ♦ ed and will not arrive for sever- + + al days. It is impossible to run + | + the tanks on a schedule Strange + ! ♦ as it may seem the tanks will + ♦ run for weeks over plowed fields + ♦ or broken roads, but on improv- + + ed highways they gain too much ♦ + speed for the mechanism and <• + quickly get out of repair. The + + tank was in Warsaw Friday and + + if the schedule from there is + + kept up should arrive here + + Thursday, but definite announce- + + ment cannot be made until the + + tank leaves Fort Wayne. + + + + •> + 4 , + + + + + 4- + + + marrieHn west — Miss Bessie Virginia Boyers Becomes Bride of Captain W. R. Mathews AT BERKELEY, CAL. — Daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Boyers—Wedding Trip to Coast. Miss Bessie Vinginia Boyers, only : daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Boyers. | of this city, was married at Berkeley ' Cal.. at noon, Saturday, April 12, to I Captain William R. Mathems, of the . United States Marine Corps. It was a church wedding and Satur- ' day was chosen that teachers of the | California state normal at San Jose.! C$U. where Miss Boyers had been ,i i domestic science teacher the past 'year, might attend. Besides a few of the nearest friends, witnesses of the j ; wedding were the bride's mother, Mrs ! ! J. S. Boyers who has been at Berkeley I Cal., since the last of March: the . groom’s mother and two- brothers of I Berkeley; and the bride's brother, ( Dr. Luther Boyers and family of that j city. An elaborate wedding dinner ' served at the Oakland Hotel, after , which Captain and Mrs. Mathews left i on a several weeks’ trip to the coast. lAs Captain Methews is still in the I service, it is not definitely known now 1 where they will be located in the fuI ture, but letters will reach them if addressed to 929 Oxford street. Berkeley, Cai , in care of Dr. Luther Boyers. No previous announcement of th' 1 wedding was made as it was not defi- ! nitely known just when the bridegroom could secure a furlough. Both Captain and Mrs. Mathews ' are graduates of the Illinois State university. Following her graduation, Miss Boyers became a teacher of domestic science in the Decatur high school, of which she was also a graduate. Nearly a year ago she went to California where she took a position in this department of teaching in ihe state normal. Captain Mathews enlisted for service. and after a physical and tactical examination at Chicago was commissioned a first lieutenant. He was a member of the Fifth Regiment of Marine Corps that took Chateau Thierry and Beleau Woods and of the corps that turned the Germans back from Paris. He was one of the three hun- ■ dred and fifty of a thousand that survived one particularly severe engagement. In one period of the fighting , ' he was under constant bombardment , ' for seven weeks. During the last of ' the fighting he was wounded and was ! sent to the hospital for three months. • During the course of his service, he I was commissioned a captain. During the time that her bethroth- ' ed was at the front, the bride-elect I was active in Red Cross and other * war work at. home, and took an active ’ part in all of these movements. o- — TROOPS FROM ITALY. , (United Press Service) _ New York, N. Y , Apr. 14—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The first United States troops to come home from Italy arrived here today on the [ steamer Duca d'Aosta, which sailed' from Genoa, March 29th. Units | aboard were 332nd infantry, field and i staff, detachment of headquarters ’ company; supply company, machine gun company; companies A, B, C, D, I; volunteer detachment and detach- - 1; ment of medical detachment; total ’,47 officers and 1,595 men. These II troops will be divided among Camps - Mills, Dix, Meade, Hancock and f, Sherman, 42 officers and 1,597 men [going to the latter camp.

IT'S HOLY WEEK Special Services Will be Held at St. Mary’s Church During the Week. THE CLOSE OF LENT Three Masses Will be Held Easter Sunday—Services Tuesday Evening. The season of Lent will be brought i to a close on Saturday of this week. On the church calendar this week is j known as Holy Week and special I services are held in commemoration l of Christ's passion and death. I The following of interest to the I congregation is the schedule of the I services for the week at the St. Marys I church: I Tuesday evening. 7:30 o’clock, ser- , mon and benediction. 1 Wednesday afternoon and evening, ' confessions. Thursday morning, mass and pro- ! cession at 7:30. Friday morning, mass, 7:30. From 112 to 3p. m„ silent prayer in con - ' memoration of the three hours’ agony i 'of Christ on the cross, also confes-1 ' sions afternoon and evening. Saturday morning, services will be- ' gin at 6 o’clock. Confessions afternoon and evening. Easter Sunday First high mass. 5:30. Second mass, 7:30. High mass, 9:30. attheWplace Miller & Son Wholesale Bakery Now Located in the Weber Building — MONROE AND THIRD Restaurant Discontinued Serving of Meals—Bakery System Enlarged. Miller's restaurant, one of the oldest in the city, served its last meals ’ last evening, and today the members j of the firm, Charles Miller and his 1 son, Irvin, are moving their bakery; establishment to their fine new head-! quarters, in the old Weber block, corner of Third and Monroe street, j where they are now conducting a wholesale bakery business. Everything in the line of bread, pies, cakes' and other pastries will be made and ’ sold. They are however, enlarging! their capacity and will push the wholesale department big, as well as! conduct the retail business in this ’ line. The building was extensively remodeled, and made very neat and fine, as well as being equipped with' a new steam bakery system and every: thing first class in this way. The baking department is in charge of Irvin Miller, Troby Cramer, and others, while Elmer Reppert, William Stettler, Albert Miller and others will assist the senior members of the firm Charles Miller, in attending to the other details of the business, including the delivery of the goods to the various retail stores of the city. They ask their old patrons to re-: member their new stand today, assur-1 ing them that everything will Ims i found bigger and better than at the' old place, except the serving of meals which has been discontinued. All ow-

ing them are asked to call and settle as they need the funds in carrying i on their new work, in a larger way. I The building which they vacated will be remodeled for the Holthouse, Schulte Clothing store, and the build- ■ ling they vacate at the north, will be | removed and the site taken for the [ new building to be erected by the i Old Adams County Bank. JAMES DOWNS A WINNER — j The name of James Downs as one of the twenty prize winners in the county spelling contest was omitted ' by mistake from the report given in 5 Saturday’s paper. James, too, was ’ “there with the goods.” i Burt Townsend, of Chicago, is here today attending to business matters.

r FROM MILT LEAVELL. L W. A. Fonner was greatly surprised yesterday to receive a package ' bearing the name of the sender, “Milt j Leavell, Boulder. Colo.” The package i was found to contain a potato ten and a half inches long and weighing two pounds. There was no comment : made regarding the same. Mr. Leav- : ell is a former blacksmith and rural mail carrier here. ,'LEGS ARE BROKEN Samuel Soldner, Retired Farmer of Berne, Injurt ed When Caught Under — A LAND PULVERIZER i I I Horses Became Frightened and Ran When Lines Bek j came Entangled. Samuel Soldner, a retired farmer, I aged about sixty years living in Berne met with an exceedingly serious in- . jury, rendered Hie more serious because of his advanced age. He was hitching a team of horses . belonging to a neighbor, to a pulver- ! izer to use on the land, when the I lines became entangled about his legs.' The horses started and threw him in ’ such away that one leg was caught | under the pulverizer. Both legs were I broken and he was badly cut also about the one. It was necessary to put him under’ : the influence of ether for an hour and | a half during the time that his injur- ’ ies were being cared for. DEBS IS IN PRISON. (United Press Servicer Moundsville, W. Va., Apr. 14 —(Spe - ’ eial to Daily Democrat) —Eugene V. ’ Debs, oftime socialist candidate for . president, today began serving his : I ten-year sentence in the federal pen-1 I itentiary here. Debs gave himself up to federal authorities in Cleveland 1 yesterday upon arriving there from 1 , his home in Terre Haute, Ind. He was convicted some months ago of seditious utterances during an ad- ! dress in Canton, Ohio.

ENLISTS FOR OVERSEAS j Miney Schafer, son of Riesen Schafer of southeast of the city, who has been employed three years in Fort Wayne, enlisted there Saturday even- ’ ing for service overseas and spent i Sunday at his home here. He expects I to go across in two or three months. His mother. Mrs. Riesen Schafer and I grandsons, Harry and Oliver, accompanied him to Fort Wayne this morning to spend some time with him and { with her daughter, Mrs. Warren Hamrick. o YEOMAN MEETING i Mat Breiner, foreman of the Yeo1 man lodge, requests that all members attend tonight as important business will come up.

FOUND IN RIVER Near Pleasant Mills—Missing Section of Safety Deposit Box Found. FROM SHELDON BANK Recently Burglarized — Fishermen Find Checks Floating on Water.

The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette this morning says: "After lying imbedded in the mud at the bottom of the St. Mary's river for more than two weeks, the missing section of safety deposit boxes carried away when the Sheldon State bank at Sheldon was robbed on the night of March 28, was recovered yes(Continued on Page Two) TO ATTEND TRIAL Miss Agnes Meibers arrived home Sunday on a ten days' leave from Washington, D. C. where she is in the employe of the government. She was called here by Judge James J. Moran to serve as a witness in the ArnolfGlendemiing trial at Portland. She went to Portland this morning and will return home tomorrow afternoon. [

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LANDED AT BREST » t ' Rainbow Boys Have ReachI > ed That Port on Way Home from Front. n WILL SAIL SOON Expected in New York in Next Couple of Weeks and Soon Discharged. (United Press Service) Brest, April 14—(Special to Daily I Democrat)—The entire Rainbow diviI sion was expected to arrive in Camp ' Pontanezen from the front today. The I latest arrivals include the 117th sani- | tary train; battery F, 150th artillery of Indiana; headquarters; companies : A and B. 149th machine gun battalion [of Pennsylvania; 117th field signal battalion of Missouri. The following units were expected to embark today: Companies G, H, I, K, L. and M, 165th infantry of New York, on the Prinz Frederick Wilhelm Field Staff, supply and headquarters companies and first battalion 167 infantry, of Alabama, on the North Carolina, Companies E, F, G, H, I and I K, of the 167th infantry, on the Mon- ’ tana. Companies L and M. 167th infantry , and the 151st machine gun battalion, lon the Minnesota. i o BLUFFTON BOYS ARRESTED ! Came Here to See Girls With "Borrowed” Auto Truck. Two young girls of the south part of the city had their beaux and an automobile in which they all were sitting just after dusk last evening, | about 7:30 o’clock, with the lights darkened, taken out from under their | very noses. j The two boys were Henry Straun and Grant Johnson, Bluffton boys, each of the tender age of seventeen years. The auto in which they rode over was a truck, which later proved to belong to Lawrence Leaueder. of Bluffton. About dusk Sheriff Melchi received a call from the Blufftor officials stating that an auto had been taken and asking him to be on the lookout. He went out and soon spotted the boys, with the automobile and the truck, quietly sitting on Second street. The boys claimed that they had asked permission to take the ear for the evening, but they were taken into custody nevertheless and the officials from Bluffiton came over about eleven o’clock to get them. . —

HERBERT EVERETT HOME. Herbert Randolph Everett, son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Everett, arrived home Sunday from overseas service. They did not know until he arrived home that he had been in active service at the front, as he did not want to tell them and cause worry before. He was in some of the fierce fighting, and says that Sherman's description. |of war is by far too flowery. It is | wore than that! He was In the 338th infantry of the Camp Custer division. SUFFERED PTOMAINE POISONING Mr. and Mrs. William Riffle and son, of North Seventh street, who have been in a critical condition from ptomaine poisoning, contracted presumably from some food which they had eaten last Thursday, are better. . The condition of Mrs. Riffle was especially bad and her children were called to her bedside.

POSTPONE SUPPER. The D. Y. B. supper in the Sothcr building, announced for Tuesday, has been postponed. If the tank comes Thursday, it will be Thursday. If not then, it will be given Saturday 1 evening, sure. MR. BORROUGHS ILL M. F. Borroughs. of the Engler store, is very ill at the home of his I son. Herb Borroughs. He is resting 'about the same today, showing no im- , provement. He is kept under the inI fluence of a hypodermic. I SPECIAL 'mEEtTng’ ' A special called meeting of the Knights of Columbus will be held at the hall at 8:30 o’clock tonight. ABOUT THE SICK j Mrs. S. P. Sheets returned home yesterday from the Hope hospital, I Fort Wayne, where she ha dan opera- | don. She is getting along fine.