Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 17, Number 108, Decatur, Adams County, 6 May 1919 — Page 4

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D AJL YD EM OCRAT Publlahed Every Evening Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company JOHN H. HELLER..President ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE Secretary Subscription Rates By Government Order Cosh la Advance. One Week by carrier ......10 cents One Year, by carrier $5.00 One Month, by mail 35 cents Three Months, by mall .......SI.OO Six Months, by mall ....$1.75 One Year, by mall .$3.09 One Year, at office $3.00 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice in Deca tur, Indiana, as second-class matter. Wo make a last appeal to the people of Adams county to finish the job for the Victory Loan. You know all about it and words are foolish. Wo are still short nearly a hundred thousand dollars, not a very good wecpine to the Rainbow boys who not only gave of their money and time and sacrificed two years of their life, but offered their lives if it would help to save our country. Can it be that we will sit here and fail to subseripe our portion of the loan needed to pay the financial bills. If we do it will indeed shatter the record me made during the days a year ago when it looked as though the enemy would dictate the terms of viitory. If we win out something must be done quickly. The townships whish have failed to meet I the quota should awaken to the seriousness of the hour and make good. And you rannot waste another minute. The committee on organization for the Chamber of Commerce will report by tomorrow, the plan shaving been well considered. The constitution, by-laws and suggestions will be presented to the board of directors recently elected and will within a few days be given to the public. The main thing necessary to make the new project a real success and get results will be the co-operation of the public. If manufacturer, business men, farmer, clerk, laborer, banker, owner of property and every one else will work hand in hand we can improve Decatur and the Chamber of

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Commerce can. aid in so many ways Let’s get the details out of the road, get down to business and boost Decatur and Adams county. The I. W. W. is holding a national convention in Chicago and Mayor Thompson is permitting it over the' objections of his council. In no other American city, large or small, would such a meeting be permitted, more shame to the city which only a few weeks ago re-elected Thompson to the high office of executive of the second largest metropolis in the nation. Four heat prostrations occurred in New York City yesterday whare the mercury rushed up to eighty six degrees, the on i y real sign that su , r . mer is near in a fortnight. The warm weather is <l uo hero tomwrow ao g(Jt your Palm Beach and sun bonn „ t ready. I —■ - I

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If you haven’t worn any of our famous DROP SEAT unions you havej ncxer experienced wearing a comfortable union suit. $2.00 to $5.00 THE MrERS-OAILEY c:oivtF» anv The Store That Does Things.

SOCIETY | 1 Club Calendar y Tuesday. Rebekah Initiation Practice. ♦ lave Wire Class —Postponed. ♦ 3 C. L. of C. Party—K. of C. Hall ♦ } Presbyterian Missionary— Mrs. L. . A. Graham. ; , ♦ Reformed Woman's Missionary — j Mrs. Otto Reppert. Wednesday. Walther League—Schoolhouse + Concord Aid—Mrs. John Christen. * Bachelor Maids—Genevieve Bremerkamp. Thursday. Ic-nick—Cecile Miller. ♦ Baptist Missionary—Mrs. Ira Bodie ♦ Evangelical Aid — Mrs. Charles Knodle. * Loyal Workers’ Class —Mrs. L. A. Jackson. + D. Y. B. Sect. 2 Musical at U. B. Church. U. B. Ladies’ Aid—Mrs. Cephus Melchi. ♦ Lutheran Ladies’ Aid—Miss Martha Koldewey Friday. Mite Society—M. E. Church. Saturday. D. Y. B. Pastry Sale —Hower and Baker’s. + Reformed Ladies’ Pastry Sale—Gas Office And what’s a life —a weary pilgrimage Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, mandhood, and decriit age.—• ■ —Francis Quarles. The Evangelical Ladies’ Aid society will meet with Mrs. Charles Knodle at her home 622 Mercer Avenue Thursday afternoon. ♦ The Walther Leaguo will meet Wednesday evening in the Lutheran parochial school house. ♦ Mrs. Ira Bodie will be hostess to the Baptist Missionary society Thursday afternoon.

, The Loyal Workers’ class will be' . entertained Thursday evening by Mrs. L. A. Jackson at her home on Tenth street. ♦ I Mr and Mrs. I. Bernstein motored to Dowagiac, Mich. Sunday to visit II with their brother and sister, Mr. and . Mrs. Sam Gutthacher and new baby. They were accompanied to Elkhart by Mr. and Mrs. Bert Ilunsicker. They returned Monday. * The Yeoman lodge installed its lady officers last evening. They will •erve during the month of May which ' is ladies’ month. Appropriate exercises were conducted. ; ♦

The Catholic Ladies of Columiba will obligate six for membership this evening. A [tarty will also be given for the new members and a very good entei tainment series has been planned. + Tho section of the Mite society, of which Mrs. Dan Tyndall and Mrs. W.

P. Schrock are chairmen, will enter t'lin the society Friday afternoon at the Methodist church. ♦ IC ' nlCk Club will have its fi rst S M Ce 011 TIWSda * eVe ’ ; g Vlth Mism Cecile Miller.

•the Concord Lu: heron c:ety at her home mi N orth Seco J street Wednesday afternoon. *

I Three of the five graduates of the| Kirkland township high school who I were graduated Friday evening, left yesterday for Muncie to take a normal course to prepare for teaching. They were Ralph Yaney, Walter

Crumm, Esther Brown. Another, Miss Glennys Byerly, will leave in three weeks for North Manchester to take the normal work in the college there. The fifth, George Yaney, has not decided upon his future plans. A feature of the commencement exercise's. was the presenting of the commission to the high school. The class day exercises Friday afternoon, (interesting. The class will, prophecy and history and poem were given: the' ivy was planted: and a qxeißoHgi, a.' . rnoi ,um?iit topped with a vase, wgs'

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dedicated to the grounds of the new ; building. The commencement program and other exercises were cari ried out splendidly as announced prill or thereto, a reception closing the festivities. This was the second annual commencement. * The Delta Theta Tau sorority had another splendid meeting with Miss Lois Connell last evening. Report was received from the four girls who went to Valparaiso to institute a chapter, Saturday evening. Miss Lucile Smith, of this city, a Valpo student, a member of. the local chapter was with them also, and ten col- - lege girls made up the charter membership of the new chapter. Plans were made for the third anniversary dance of the local chapter to be given May 27. The place will be announced later. Miss Matilda Borling lead a musical program, playing Chppin’s Mazurka, op. 33 and Polonaise op. 40. She also gave a reading entitled “A Woman's Influence,” that was much appreciated. A luncheon closed the social. ♦ Mrs. C. J. Miner, Miss Ethel Potts, Miss Esther Sovine left at noon over the Clover Leaf for Frankfort to attend the St. Joseph Branch Missioniary Convention. Principle speaker*? will be Rev. E.M. Hursh, of Freeton. West Africa, Superintendent of the African work, Mrs. Alva Camp, gen eral Secretary of W. M. A. from Dayton Ohio and Dr. Camp, home miss- . ionary secretary from Dayton. TO SHffITCAiISE Department Heads Must Explain Why Discharged Soldiers Are Not Paid AT FIVE CENT RATE First Victory for Private 1 Soldiers and Sailors for ] $40,000,000 Allowance. (United Press Service? Washington. D. C„ May 6—(Special to Daily Democrat—War depart- ’ ment heads today were under order 1 of the district court to show why dis- 1 charged soldiers should not be allow- I ed mileage home at the rate of five < cents per mile instead of three and a half. < Issuance of the order by Chief Justice McCoy was the first victory for 1 the private soldiers and sailors le- i : gion in its fight to force the government to pay the men about $40,000,- ] 000 additional allowance. The last congress authorized payment of five cents a mile to discharged soldiers ; and sailors. < The war department said Saturday . it intended to pay this difference as ] rapidly as possible. ( —o— COURT HOUSE NEWS from Page One) 1 tee, to Albert Shell, 1 acre, St. Mary’s i tp., $380; Mary M. Koenig to John i Scheimann, 8.75 acres, Washington < tp., $2500; Viola M. Allison to James < F. Arnold, lot 64, Decatur, $1; John < H. Hilty et al. to Justin A. Michaud, ( lots 313, 314, 315, Berne, SSOO. , W. W. Hawkins has recorded the name of his eighty-acre farm, in Washington township, as Clover Leaf ’ Stock Farm.

R. C. Parish, attorney for Thomas ' J. Durkin, filed a suit against William i Durbin and Ralph Hileman, to foreclose mechanics.’ lien, demand $275. The lien is on an automobile. D. B, Erwin, attorney for Bank of 1 Geneva filed three suits in the circuit < court against Wilham Drew ,i 1 Gue is for $350 on note; the other ■ two are for S4OO each, on note, and ( for foreclosuse of mortgage. o_ s DEMPSEY GETTING READY ?

——— 7 Excelsior Springs, Mo., May 6 — - (Special to Daily Democrat) —Jack £ Dempsey, returning from early morn- £ ing road work here today', expressed t [entire satisfaction with the prospect h a 12 round go at Toledo, O„ with 1 -- s Ailiard on July 4th. Dempsey ’ n b ® knowu favors the limit fixJrout. RiCkard oveT the longer ? I T

has ost none of hS wnSd ° ntender ability to usurp C he k, ln hiß crown. He regards th ? y wei Bbt 1 cation and ’ er than liabilities. th ' NOTICE TO MASONS I Members, of the Masonic lodge are’ asked to meet at hall at 1:30 o’clock! tomorrow afternoon to attend the .funeral of Brother JeJ.. n«le. j- Be I services will be he|d at the Methodist 'church at 2:30 but the lodge will meet , earlier to march to the home. i GEO. E. KINZLE, Master

A ROADLETTING Commissioners Order Six Roads and Will Receive Bids on June 3rd. STATE LINE BRIDGE Board Orders That J. G. Crum Must Complete The Beavers Road. The second day of the May session of the county commissioners was de-! voted almost entirely to road and bridge matters, they ordering the construction of six roads and one bridge. Bids for the construction of the roads and bridge will be receiv-j ed at the next regular meeting of the board on Tuesday, June 3rd. The roads ordered constructed are as follows: Albert Huser road, Monroe town-' ship; Jacob Bevington road, Blue Creek township; Teeter & Barkalow road, Jefferson and Wabash township. The Salem Reformed church road, Preble township; the Abraham In-j niger road, Monroe township; the J. i A. Laisure road, also in Monroe township. The bridge ordered built in the state line bridge in Jefferson township. Finish Contract Upon the hearing of the petition of J. G. Crum, contractor for the S. D. I Beavers macadam road, the board ordered that Beavers finish and complete the road and that he must carry out every tern', in the contract. Mr. Beavers asked to be relieved from the work and to be paid for what work he had already done on it. Hearing June 2 David Gerber, contractor of the ■ James D. Hoffman road in St. Marys township petitioned the board to lie relieved from completing his work as contracted for. The board set Monday, Juno 2nd, as the day on : which he would be given a hearing. i Authorize to Sell The board authorized Supt. Martin Laughlin of the county farm to sell hay and wool belonging to the insti-', tution at the present market prices. I ( Mr. Laughlin whs also authorized to t employ his daughter, Miss MaryLaughlin as a laborer on the farm. Approve Franchises Legal notices tiaving been given. ‘ the board approved the franchisesl and contracts for the Preble Light & ; Power company and the Farmer’s ! Light & Power company. Taxes Refunded It was found that David M. Rice’ had been erroneously assessed for taxes and the board authorized the auditor to make a refund of $4.50 to him, this being the amount of the overcharge. Are Called In Upon their finding that the Monroeville Telephone Company was operating their line in Root and Union townships and had wires strung and poles erected in that territory and other obstructions along the highways without a franchise or license the board ordered- that the officers of the Monroeville company meet with them on Monday, June 2nd and show cause why same were there and why they should not be removed. Following the completing of the docket this afternoon the board adjourned. — - ... r> —-- STRAW SHED DESTROYED. During the terrible storm Sunday ( night lightning struck a straw shed., on the Merryman brothers’ farm in Washington township, the shed catch-| ing fire and was completely destroyed. Three fine hogs were also killed by the lightning, those being in the shed. Two other hogs and two young calves escaped injury. J. A. Merryman, who lives on the farm, stated today that his loss would be about one hundred dollars, fully insured in the French Township Mutual Insurance company. o— HAD A GOOD MEETING. The people of the Pleasant Mills Methodis tchurch and community appreciated highly the fine service rendered by the Decatur minute men Sunday evening. Ip. spite of prospects for a rainy night a good-sized audience came to hear Messrs. H. B. Heller, O. L. Vance, M. E. Hower, W. 1 Beery, who were “there” with Iro. convinc ing messages on “The inJ” tla * D Church in World Rebuildnees an address of great ciearJ given by Prof. ’ the thunder r * iu P ov »re<l down. ’ but these dut church ’ [ benefits of the service*! th ® t hope that when ot.r Droat come aggin they Will not U ha rleuds start home ia 10a "* to ’ - i

I AUSTRIA TO BE PART OF NEW GERMANY (United Press Service) Berlin—(By Mail)—lf Austria does not join Germany immediately, owing to opposition from the entente, she will do so later, according to German opinion, which considers it merely a matter of time until hostility for the union of all German peoples will pass. The Germans are making their plans accordingly, in spite of the hecent eruption in Vienna against joining Germany. During March the Germans were for joining tho two countries at once, and amendments were made for the step. There never was any opposition on the part of the Germans to the move, which would make the German speaking nation the largest I in western Europe. Two Austrian delegates were granted membership in the reichstag. while preliminary work of connecting Austria to Germany went on. i Then came the Austrian revolution ‘ against joining Germany. Most of I the newspapers and the government expressed hostility to Austria under the Prussians. The opposition is merely a bluff, according to the Ger- ; mans, and is inspired by agents of the French. The Austrians complied with the outside wishes to avoid further trouble, say sthe Germans. i But the Vienna opposition is not all bulff. in spite of the German theories. The Vienese never were over- . enthusiastic at entering a German I federation, in which Austria ■would be; a very small minority of the popula-i I tion. and contrary to her position as ; head of the Hapsburg empire, Vienna I would be entirely dominated over, in- . stead of being mistress city. Not a small element of the movement to join Germany was based on the need of a route to the sea. Vienna has to turn to the North Sea. now she is cut off from the Adriatic. The Vienese are more southern in their dispositions and life than Prussian. It is possible the Austrians see a way of reaching the sea through another alliance. But the Germans ■ consider the movement a bluff to fool the entente and are confident of Austria’s annexation through a clause in < the constitution providing for new member states joining the German rc- J public federation. I o— SHOW AT PLEASANT MILLS J The Ladies’ Aid invites you to come ' • to the ‘Old Maid's Convention” and • see the old maids transformed into J beautiful young maidens, before your ' own eyes, at the high school building • at Pleasant Mills, Ind., Friday even- , ing. May 9. 108-t3 ; Ralph Moser was a Fort Wayne ; I business visitor today.

WHEN UNCLE SAM BECAME A BUILDER. n— . _ . . . i ■ u i—nMMWwooMiBB ■ i i ,t3aaat.w»n < IMWIIIIHM ——MHIIW— M Mm p.«- ItJOTT .^ T^-rri ||i M UL'/fr*,. I AN hen I ncle Sam rolled up his sleeves to go into the 1 I * business of munitions, he was confronted with the serious prob em of housing his great army of industrial workers. ——?*&&& Thousands of permanent homes were needed, as usual V-W Uncle Sam was particular about their construction. The X° a l i * b l ul,dl . ng c ™ nsel was cal,ed in ’ materials inves- jt t’ho r yZ and tMed- When the time came to \/ \ AfK. vnuJ h L G fi er ?™a ntS great housing P r °ject of Hilton ' V illage, \ a., final judgment was passed in fax or of A* /*■»? KELLASTONEI UVC Imperishable Stucco / The original magnesite stucco—lasting as the nvramiib immune to evils of heat, cold, frost, moisture, tire and wacrick^ n h l iS e or’ r crJmhle 3tat . co .. KE LLASTONE does not /S crack, chip or crumble—it is the only stucco that endures ’I IOTw sets up m a dense stone-like mass, and retains its original if hHI brilliancy regardless of atmospheric conditions l| Olli tutes l evidenced ° f KELLA STONE consti- I 4gll I ■ ignore. Make an investigation, a™ KZffhS B 11 | I I 111 m all its various textures and novel pebble and S ran™s„ I g| | E. L CARROLL & SON I hl! Distributors and Contractors C 1I" I f w *-*■ I LJlfes

■ A PURITAN FLAY gi (Continued from Page One) e the captain’s wife, a motherly, capn able woman. a I The Players e MUes Standish. Captain of Plys. i mouth—Ralph Tyndall. s| Garrett Foster, of Weston’s men—t; Bryce Thomas. g John Margeson, of the Plymouth ; colonists —Byford Macy. , el Philippe de La Noye, of the Plyt mouth colonists— George Schug. r| Miriam Chillingsley, cousin to the e Captain—Ruth Frisinger. s; Barbara Standish, wife to the Capp I tain —Helen Walters t Resolute Story, aunt to the Captain 1I —Esther Bowers. ) Rose De I-a Noye—Josephine Myers' ’■ Place—Plymouth, in New England. • Period —1622-1623. Act I—An early morning in August 1 | —Stolen fruit. f Act 2—An afternoon in October—--1 A maid’s toys. Act 3—A night in March —The red ! light on the snow. Act 4 —The next afternoon —The I better man. Directed by Mrs. Faye Smith Knapp W. R. C. NOTICE The W. R. C. is requested to meet this evening at 7:30 o’clock at the G. A. R. hall to make arrangements to | attend the funeral of Mrs. Randall i Sprague which will be tomorrow morn, ing at ten o’clock from the M. E. I church, of this city.

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I WILL PERMIT SCRAP (United Press Service) Cincinnati, May 6 —(Special to Daily Democrat) Cornell Schreiber, mayor of Toledo, here to appear in a ■ case before the United States court of appeals, said today he positive v would grant a permit for the staging -of the Willard-Dempsey fight, for the heavyweight championship of ih e • world at Toledo, July 4. He said he saw no objection to the boxing exi hibition as it would be of a scientific nature and would net from $25,000 to $30,000 for the city’s charities. He said he faored the bout because -of its advertising value to Toledo, o —.- “BUILD NOW” CAMPAIGN ON IN KANSAS CITY. (United Press Service) Kansas City, Mo., May 6—(Special to Daily Democrat) —An extended j “Build Now” drive is proving tfi P means of stimulating unprecedented interest in buying and building homes and other buildings here. A "Build Now" campaign committee, through established headquarters, is furnishing information to prospective builders and buyers. Reports show that many individuals are taking advantage of the opportunity to relieve the building shortage. F. C. Sharon, in charge of the campaign says: “We have provided a simple system explaining the procedure essential in financing a building for those who will want to do business on the pay. ment plan. In buying or having a building erected, reliable parties ran be so aided in making loans that the payment of same will not be a bit harder on them than paying rent."