Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 17, Number 132, Decatur, Adams County, 3 June 1919 — Page 4

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DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company JOHN H. HELLER, .-.tt. .President ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE Secretary Subscription Rates By Government Order Cash 1* Advance. One Week by carrier ......10 cents One Year, by carrier .. $5.00 One Month, by mall ......35 cents Three Months, by mall SI.OO Blx Months, by mail ~.........51.75 One Year, by mall ...........$3.00 One Year, at office $3.00 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. Congressman Mann, of Illinois, is perfectly able, we unnerstand, to buy such steerflesh and horseflesh as his fancy may dictate; but in a good-na-tured moment he permitted Swift & Co. to enrich him with a beefsteak — which was of no more intrinsic importance than the color of the necktie

Mr. Mann happened to be wearing that day. But in the game of politics it counted as an error against him. So when the republican caucus came to choose a speaker it sternly sacrificed Mr. Mann in favor of Mr. Gillett, of Massachusetts. And having performed that sacrificial act out in the open for the edification of the public the caucus retired to the wings and mostly handed the organization of the house over to Mr. Mann and his followers—as Congressman Longworth and various other insurgents indignantly point out. Which is a straw that shows how the congressional wind is trying to blow. By sticking to the seniority rule in appointing committee chairmen, by retaining all the useless old committees, by this little Mann incident and by other signs, a majority of the republican membership seem ■ minded to play the sordid old game. Probably that majority knows what happened in Taft’s administration —the old game and an evergrowing insurgency until finally the party was split wide open. —Saturday Evening Post. Many hundred miles of improved roads of various material will be constructed in Indana during the next few years. When the people of this country do things they usu<yiy do them with speed. So far but few miles of roads, though constructed at t enormous cost, have stood the wear < of time and autos. In a neighboring f

county you can find brick roads constructed during the past two or three years, already going to pieces. We are for better roads but we feel that just at this time it may be better if we wait until it is definitely known just at this time it may be wiser if service. Wo cannot afford to rebuild roads at a cost of $20,000 to $30,000 ♦ * | WE are showing an ■ • I ’’enormous line of A ' » | Shaw I Hats b to $7 • • • , I-"..,— n,„j , ii i MYERS- i DAILEYi I COMPANY i

Pja mile. Let's progress but let’s use * good judgment. Another meeting was held last evening to which a number of local t business men were invited with the 1 hope that some progress towards organizing a chamber of commerce could be made. One man responded besides the board of directors. Os ! course with such apathy any progress ) is impossible but the board is not t discouraged and will continue their 1 efforts. If the organization is a sue- ( cess it must have the co-operation of i every business man in Decatur and i that means that they must assist when called upon. Let's try it mem It can't cost much or hurt you any and the chances are it will make you more money than any chance you ever took. SOCIETY ITEMS Club Calendar Tuesday. Presbyterian Woman's Missionary —Mrs. Ed Moses. | Rebekah Initiation. | U. B. Missionary—At the church. Reformed Woman's Missionary —I Mrs. Fred Shaefer. |

Thursday. Evangelical Woman’s Missionary —I Mrs. C. E. Hocker. Helping Hand Society— Reformed! church. I Friday. D. Y. B. Section 1 Musical—U. B.| Church. Ben Hur Two-cent Supper and I Program. Queen Esthers —Josephine Myers. Methodist Woman's Home Mission-1 ary Society—M. E. Church Parlors. E Christian Pastoral Helpers— Mrs. I Joe Beery. Saturday Phoebe Bible Class Pastry Sale —I Gas Office. As thrills of long-hushed tone Live in the viol, so souls grow fine| With keen vibrations from the! touch divine, Os noble natures gone. I —James Russell Lowell. > Wondrous is the strength of j cheerfulness, altogether past cal- I culation its power of endurance. I —Thomas Carlyle. 1 Let us fold away our fears I And put by our foolish tears, I And through all the coming years, ■ Just be glad. —Riley. I The Phoebe Bible class, taught by I Mrs. Fred Schafer will give a pastry! sale at the gas office Saturday mom-1 ing, beginning at ten o’clock. I * The Helping Hand society will I' meet at the Reformed Church Thurs-j 1 lay afternoon for the making of com-!' orts. Mrs. L. Leimanstoll will ber

hostess. ♦ Mr. and Mrs. Hosea Ray entertain ed at Sunday dinner in honor of Mr and Mrs. Robert Orrill, of Dayton Ohio, formerly Lillie Boze, of Berne. Those present w r ere Mr. and Mrs John Lhamon and family, Mr. and Mrs. Harl Smith and family, Mr. and Mrs. Bate Ray, Mrs. John Thompson and son. Mrs. Jennie Drew, Barcley Smith and Wilford and Burman Ray. Ice cream and cake were served in the afternoon. ♦ Mrs. Roy Sheets and son, Carl, went to Ohio City today and this evening will go to Van Wert, 0., to attend the hospital’s nurses’ training school commencement tonight at the Y. M, C. A. hall. Mrs. Sheets’ sister. Miss Olive Walters, will be a graduate Miss Grace Gerard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Al Gerard, of Fort Wayne, formerly of this city, will also be J [graduate at this time. I + I Mrs. T. C. Corbett and daughter, 3Eileen, to Lima. O. to visit with sister, Nirs. Curran. Mrs. Wil- , lan * Harlin 8 and daughter. Mrs. Hcr- . -an Gillis, also went to Lima to , v.slt with relatives. * I The Woman’s Home Missionary so- ; ctety ot the Methodist church ‘ wlu . meet in the church parlors Friday , afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. The annua ; election will be .held at/his time ♦ J 'lTie Queen Esthers will meet Ft

J 'day evening with Miss Josephine My-| j’ers. Miss Mary Brown will be leadJer of the study and the annual elecI tion of officers will be held at this ‘ meeting also. :i ♦ , i The Ever Ready Sunday School J class will meet Thursday evening ■ with Mrs. Frank Carroll. All mem- , bers are requested to be present. ’ ♦ £ The members of toe Epworth P League of the Methodist church will

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ejhold their pot luck supper at the [church rooms on next Thursday evening at seven o’clock. A large turn out is looked for. ♦ 11 The Ben Hurs will give a two-cent e supper and program Friday evening, .. to which the public is invited. The supper will follow the program. ♦ '[ Mr. and Mrs. Hosea Ray were at f I Monroe this afternoon between s trains, attending to business. t * Mrs. D. M. Fulton returned this r I afternoon to her home in Portland ' after a two weeks’ visit with the Robtlert Blackburn family. She was act|companied by Mrs. Ira Denny, who 1 1 is returning home from California. * ' I The Delta Theta Tau held a splenI did meeting with Mrs. Will Bowers i last evening, when Miss Leona Bosse • had the paper on “Coorado Springs.” I Plans were made for an ice cream social to be given Saturday evening, I probably on Liberty Way, if permis- | hion can be secured. Delegates to | the grand convention to be held at I Portland July 1, 2 and 3, were electI ed. Miss Genevieve Bremerkamp I will be the business delegate, and Miss Matilda Berling, the social deleI gate. An important business meeting | will be held Thursday evening of this | week with Mrs. Bernard Terveer. | which all are asked to. remember. Miss Glennys Mangold will have the I regular meeting in two weeks. IMAYK JEALOUSY Jealousy May he Motive of Shooting of Fred Hoile is the Belief. ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE Said to Have Been Uncovered to That Effect—Funeral is Held Today. i Funeral services for Fred Hoile, cf I near Fort Wayne, the unfortunate I victim of the highway robbery and [murder, were held this afternoon at 11:30 o'clock at the Hoile home on I the Engle road and at the Emmaus I Lutheran church, at 2 o’clock. I The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette | says: | “Although nothing new developed I Monday as a result of the investi- | gation of the circumstances sur- | rounding the shooting tragedy on I the Engle road last Friday night when Fred Hoile, jr., in the presence of his fiancee,, Miss Bernadine Woenker, was shot and fatally wounded by a masked bandit, the police and sheriff’s force have been able to uncover additional evidence in support of the -theory that the crime was committed by a rejected lover. That the unfortunate young

| man believed that jealousy was the | motive has been learned by the au- . Ithorities to whom this information I was imparted by Miss Woenker. When the assailant had left the I scene of the crime, Hoile, she says, I asked her: “Bernie, don’t you think [this was a case of jealousy?— l don't I know. Fred,” Miss Woenker states, | she answered. “In order to make clear every deI tail of Miss Woenker’s version of the 1 | shooting, the sheriff and police on I Monday afternoon drove to the | scene of the murder in the Hoile Imachiue and, with Miss Woenker I directing the scene and Detective — . [Sergeants Immel and Hall acting the , I parts of the bandit and murdered ; man. respectively, re-enacted the' I tragedy from the moment when the 1 1 masked bandit first appeared at the j 1 side of the machine until the mor-' tally wounded lad and his financee I I continued their drive for the Hoile I farm. I I “Whether t>r not a mysterious tele-1 phone message which Prosecutor, Tood received on Sunday evening had reference to the shooting trag-l y ledy is a matter of much speculation' t with the authorities investigating o the case. At about seven o’clock, I o [Sunday night someone called the. c (prosecutor over the telephone im-j 0 (parting the following message: Mr. ' e (Todd, I am coming to your office to-' II morrow morning and tell it all!” Be- 1 „ I ore the prosecuting attorney was n i -te ; c

Whoever K up lhe receiver, o XXtiv X rayßteri( ’ us call « was,' h t i b ß ’ nh ' d ' for n °’ ? office all day Monday-* PrOße ' :utor ' s ; t —r* ~ I t A »°UT THE SICK~ t Miss Della SeH^ yw , who jwent an oeration yesterday f or lh i removal of the gall bladder and the' , appendix at the St. Joseph hospital' | Fort Wayne, passed a resthws mght and suffered much, but is getting along as well as can be expected.

'• PAY SOLDIER WORKERS t Millions Coming to Men Who Helped in Roadbuilding. b 1 ■ To Be Given Difference Between Soldiers’ Pay and Wage of the t Civilian Laborers. 1— Washington. D. C.—American soldiers from northern states who were , kept on this side of the Atlantic and forced to construct an elaborate highway- system In the South have several million dollars coming from the • federal government. > They will get it as soon as the department of agriculture can figure out the difference between S3O a month, a private’s pay, and the amount paid tn . colored laborers who received $5 and s<» n day working side by side with ’ them. 1 he total will be charged up against the states which got their roads built for a song through the use of Amer- , lean fighting men, and will be deducted from their share of the $200,000,000 provided in the post office appro prlation bill for federal aid to the states in highway construction. ’ The law insuring this just treatment of the soldiers passed congress amid the confusion of the closing days ot the last session, and members are going to see to it that the full amount due to each soldier road builder Is paid. One of the notable examples of road building is the model highway connecting Washington with Camp Humphrey, 'a. One of the principal units engaged was a company of engineers enlisted from Wisconsin university-, These men, according to Senator La Follette, worked 12 and 13 hours a day. 125 SOW BLIND Yankee Soldiers Lose Sight ir Battles in Europe. No Cases on Record in Which Soldier, Lost Both Arms and Both Legs. Washington.—There were but 12! cases of total blindness and fewei than 4,000 amputations in the American forces engaged in the war, it Is stated by the bureau of war risk In surance In an announcement concern Ing the bureau’s activity in supplying crippled soldiers and sailors with art! flcial limbs and in otherwise caring for tiie wounded and disabled. Not even all of the 125 cases of total blindness cited, it is stated, have yet been declared as permanent by the medical officers in charge. Relative to amputations, denial is made, on the authority of Surgeon General Ireland and Col Charles E. Banks, chief medical officer of the war risk insurance, that there were any cases in which men lost both arms and both legs. There have been more than 500 artificial limbs furnished to disabled men to date by the bureau under the provisions of the act of congress. “Upon being discharged from war department hospitals as unfit for further service, all men disabled as a result of injury or disease suffered in line of duty, are entitled to the benefits of the war risk insurance act,” tne statement says. “If their condition demands further treatment they are entitled to medical attention in one of a large number of hospitals now being established throughout the country, to be operated by the public health service. “If a man is disabled, but his condition needs no further medical attention, he may secure from the bureau of war risk insurance a monthly compensation. “Medical experts of the bureau make examinations of all who apply for compensation and rate their physical condition present and potential and determine the percentage of handicap which each suffers as a wage earner as a result of his disability. The rating given is carefully considered in fixing the compensation, which will be pnid monthly to the man and his dependents.” BUILD MANY NEW VESSELS Four Million Tens of Steel Ships Expected to Be Completed This Year. Washington.—Steel ships built in American yards this year are expected to total at least 4,000,000 tons. The' output, according to shipping board officials, will exceed by 700,000 tons the combined construction of both steel and wood bottoms last year, and is expected to make good Chairman Hurley's prediction of a steel merchant marine under the United States flag, comparing favorably with tne best merchant vessels afloat, and capable of competing with the merchant navies of ail nations. The great production in steel tonnage this year will be the result of the tremendous preparations started under the impetus of war. Making ready for the possibility of h prolongation of hos- , tilltlefe, the shipping board chvelopefl uildmg ways by the score to offset the 1 «m^ niCtiOn by Bub “arineß. Many new ' wards r™ tUrned out - b “t th® new 1 • ca-PabmtiX U i nable tO deDl °nstrate their As the work gained, the e?perit ° c « ' : with the tun t >,lu as I . STOWa steadily ' ’’ent only hit X becomin 8 appa-

; CLASSIFIED p Wanted, For Sale, For Rent Special Notices, Etc., Etc. HELP WANTED WANTED—A second girl to go to Mackinac for the summer. Wages s7.oo.—Mrs. P. A. Hamilton, Clinton ! and Lewis Sts., Fort Wayne. 130tf e WANTED—An experienced girl for 1 housework. Must be good cook, I- two in family; no washing; SB.OO per ' week. Address 503 W. Wayne. Ft. * Wayne, Ind. 131tf - WANTED—A pianist”aiid trap 1 drummer. Sue B. E. Miller ’ at the New Theater. 130t3 j WANTED —An experienced girl for 1 housework. Must be good cook, two in family; no washing; SB.OO per 1 week. Address 503 W. Wayne. Ft. * Wayne, Ind. 130tf k ' FORSALE . PLANTS FOR SALE—Cabbage, to- ? matoes, yams, and celery plants at Werder Sisters, 602 Marshall St.; * i'phone 347. 13146 I FOR SALE—Second hand Avery rid- * | ing corn cultivator. Complete. Will I sell at your own price. See Tom h Dowling, ’phone 784. 132tf I FOR SALE—A horse. Inquire of Cecil Harvey, 5 miles northeast of , the city, or telephone 2 long and 3 ', shorts, on 811. 131t3 FOR SALE—Yam plants, fifty cents i: per hundred. Call Burt Wolfe, rural route 9, or ’phone, three rings on I the T line. 131t3 — FOR SALE—Haines upright piano. Right price if taken soon. —D. W. I Beery, ’phone 178. 131t6 I FORD FOR SALE—I9I7 model Ford' in No. 1 shape, on good rubber for sale at right price—H. O. Davis, Pleasant Mills, Ind. 130t3 FOR SALE —28 yards of Brussels carpet, a collapsible Junior Tourist Go-Cart, and 20 feet of good plate rail; 307 North Eleventh St.; ’phone No. 746. 130t3 FOR SALE—Heavy work horse. Want family broke horse. Guernsey bull calf. —C. S. Mumma, ’phone 2 rings, 811. Decatur, Ind. 127tf FOR SALE—Fire insurance business. Good clientage. If interested address P. O. Box 214, Decatur. 130t3 ~FOR"RENTROOM FOR RENT—Furnished room for rent. Only tw r o blocks from court house. Call ’phone 653. llltf WANTED Boy, aged 16. wants work; farm or i other work. Call ’phone 913. 131t2 WANTED—A good second hand bicycle; 'phone 804. 132t3 WANTED—Fifty spring pigs. —I. A. Kalver, Decatur, Indiana, 13013 MISCELLANEOUS Brown was out in the rain with his new suit on all day yesterday and when he went home that evening his wife and all the neighbors thought to themselves, “His suit is ruined.” The press was out of the trousers and the coat looked like the top of a circus tent, but the next week the neighbors looked out and saw Brown with his suit on all fixed up better than new. He had turned them over to the Decatur Dry Cleaners and they had made them look like new. Our work is guaranteed. ’ Phone 695. BILL IS INTRODUCED. Washington, D. C., June 3—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The senate interstate commerce committee favorably reported a bill for return “at once" of the telegraph and telephone lines to their owners. After long discussion the committee adopted an amendment by Senator Pomerene of Ohio that rate increases granted under government control shall continue until the time the bill passes and the date of its approval by the president. The companies, however, are permitted to reduce rate voluntarily. The committee also reported the resolution restoring to the interstate commerce commission its power over railroad rates. a -. Ito? A SMALL EYE DEFECT may 1 cause a surprising number of pains and aches—not only in the eyes themselves but in various parts of the body. Consult Us Examinations free. Glasses at all prices. D. M. HENDLEY Optician So. Second St., Decatur, Indiana

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. . j- ,j “THE BROKEN LAW” , A big five-reel William, Fox [Moduction, featuring! the well known screen favorite, William Farnum.' The story of a man who turns gypsy to find his long lost sister. ’ A strangestory of the free and easy life of the J free and easy life of the highway, and a thrilling ad j' venture of a society man in! the great out-of-doors. See the daring rescue of a girl. See the desperate fight of gypsies. See the whipping; of Normad Couple. See the tragedy that stopped a wedding, and many other interesting and eventful points. Something new go-' ing on ail the time, and it’s up to the public to see this i great production. I REX »

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-H-+-l-++4«4'+++'M>++++++++4.+4J* Notice Just received a carload I of good old fashioned I White Flour Middlings I and Mill Feed. I Excellent Feed at a I Reasonable Price I E. L CARROLL & SON I WOOL WANTED — Highest prices paid in Decaior—Burk Elevator Co. 115tf