Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 17, Number 168, Decatur, Adams County, 15 July 1919 — Page 4

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DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. JOHN H. HELLER President ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Secretary Subscription Rates By Government Order Cash in Advance. One Week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier $5.00 One Month, by mail 35 cents Three Months, by mail SI.OO Six Months, by mail $1.75 One Y’ear, by mall $3.00 One Year, at office $3.00 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postofflce in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. We ask o£ the merchants of Decatur to give the plan of securing the services of an advertising specialist, merchandise and sales manager, a fair trial and we feel that you will be greatly benefited if you take advantage of the exceptional offer and service. Captain Richmond, who we have engaged for this work will be in the city Thursday and we want you to meet him and lay your advertising or sales worries before him. He will gladly help you solve the problem. No matter if it is hot, the public will buy if you show them that you have something to sell. It is a good time of the year to increase and push business and you know that advertising will do it. Get in the game. Os course you have been busy and haven’t had time to think about such trivial matters as renewing your subscription to your home paper, but honestly it is an important matter with us and to lose track of it we would soon find it next to an impossibility to publish a daily paper, for you know that no one can operate or run a business and not receive payment for his product. We want you to renew your subscription to the Daily Democrat and assure you that we will continue to give you the news, covering both the home and foreign fields and will be of whatever service we can when called upon. We inivte you to renew now. It must cost a lot of money to operate the state institutions under Governor Goodrich’s administration, when paroled prisoners are faced with the perplexing problem of having to start out in the world clad in the garb of Adam or remain inmates of the institutions until loans are negotiated by the state, the fund for the clothing of paroles being exhausted. It will be remembered that one of the governor’s campaign speeches and promises to the people was the lowering of the expense of operation and upkeep of the state institutions, but j somehow it can’t be done. Promises I arc sometimes easily made and equal- ' ly as easy to break. s Sound business reason will tell you 1 that if you own just three times as , much property this year as you did ( last year, the result will be that you'll 1 have to pay a larger tax next year. < There is no other way to figure it. 1 That new tax law increases vour r wealth over night and also ads to your taxes. You have the same prop- j erty, however, but must pay the ad- I ditional tax. The daylight saving plan will stick < indefinitely, the house failing to override the president’s veto on the agri- ' cultural bill, it being made a part of that measure. If for no other reason than to get up an hour earlier in the mornings, the plan is a good thing, we believe. The showers of the last two days are gradually bringing us out o£ the “dry belt” and although a little late in coming they will help some. The weather man gives encouragment by predicting local showers today and here is hoping that they come in abundance. r In order to get your mind off the hot weather, you might think about the coal bin and place your order for next winter’s supply, for if predictions are true, coal will be hard to get after cold weather sets in.

P SOCIETY t Club Calendar , Tuesday. Queen Esthers Cecile Andrews. t The Queen Esthers will meet this evening at 7:30 with Miss Cecile Andrews. Wednesday. Reformed Ladies’ Aid Picnic — i Waterworks' Park. ) j Thursday. > Loyal Daughters’ Class — Misses > Bertha and Zelma Fuhrman. • Epworth League Social—M. E. > Church. 1 Evangelical Aid —In Church Basement. Bautist Aid —In Connection with Picnic in Jones Grove Friday. Philathea Class —Ruby Miller. Friday. Christian Ladies’ Social — Noah Mangold Home. D. Y. B. —Mrs. Ben Hoagland. The D. Y. B. class will meet with Mrs. Ben Hoagland Friday evening. Saturday Ever Ready Class Two-cent Supper— K. of P. Home. Animals are such agreeable friends. They ask no questions, they pass no criticisims.—George Eliot. Miss Cecile Andrews went to Fort Wayne last evening for her music lesson. ♦ Miss Ida Spaeth, field secretary for the anti-tuberculosis society of the state, who was here on business yesterday, left last evening for Bluffton. She has been at Angola. ♦ Mrs. Cora Hartman and daughter, Alice, who visited at Willshire, 0., were accompanied to their home in Ft. Wayne last evenign by Miss Mada Humbarger who will be their guest. ♦ Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Baumgartner and daughter. Viryinia, returned last evening to their home in Ft. Wayne. They visited with the John Schmitz family. ♦ Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Brodbeck entertained for dinner Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Crozier, Mrs. Anna Brodbeck and son, Chalmer, and daughters Marie. Bernice, and Nellie. Mary Bnodbeck, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Brodbeck and children Edward and Emilee. ♦ D Troutner, of Pleasant Mills, was a guest at dinner yesterday, of the Samuel Acker family. The Troutners and Ackers were old enighbors. ♦ The Christian Pastoral Helpers will give another ice cream social Friday evening on the Noah Mangold lawn on First street. A cordial invitation is given everybody to attend. ♦ A number of friends and neighbors gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Krick Saturday evening while they were in Decatur, and. on arriving home. Mrs. Krick was very much surprised to find the large number present to help her celebrate her birthday. A very delightful time was enjoyed by all present. During the evening a very tempting lunch was served. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Dannis Krick and daughters, Luetta and Vloia, Mrs. Elijah Krick. Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Roth and children, Ivan and Vilas. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Gause and children. Opal. Mildren and Delilah. Mr. and Mrs. John Lautzenheiser and daughters Ino and Velma, Mrs. Anna Brodbeck and daughters Bernice and Nellie, Mr. and Mrs .Joseph Crozier, Mr. and Mrs. George Knittie. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hickman and children. Jeanette. . Thelma. Norman and Roy' Junior. Mr. and Mrs. Owen Plumley and children. Gerald. Gale and Allen. Mr. and Mrs. Harold McCoy and children. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Gause. Mr. and Mrs. Carey Hoover and daughter. Virgina. Glayds Dull Mr. and Mrs. Ammie Miller and Ivan Tank. Mr. and Mrs. Willis Whtttenbarger and children. Opal (Trota and Harold. Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Fowler and children, Clifford. Rolland. Paul and Robert, , Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Roth and sons. Dewey and Edward. Freddie Roth. Mr. and Mrs. Vern Erexson and e daughter, Edith. Mr. and Mrs. Earl B Pierce and daughter. Mary Helen. v Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Knittie. Mr. and d Mrs. George Wood, Mary Brodbeck, n Dayton Gause and daughter, Esther, Owen Ainsworth. Theron Miller. Cyril Hickman. Harry Ramsey. Clint , Stevens, Fred Bittner. Gregg Knittie e Dewey Ainsworth, Roy Miller. Jaki it | Stevens. Ivan Copper, Chalmer Wood ,r [ Frank Berger. Clyde Noffsinger. Ulei j Hill. Cleo Krick. Marie Brodbeck Beatrice and Alma Whittenbarger Lora Gause. Portia Wood. Rosi | Harmon. All left at a late hour I

DECATUR DAILY. DEMOCRAT, TUESDAY, JULY 15, l'Jl9.

A MERRY CHASE Is Floyd Rothgib, Eleven Year Old Bluffton Bad Boy Leading Officers HE SAYS HE STOLE But They Prove That He Didn’t —What Is The Truth of Matter. A merry chase around seven Robin Hood’s barns is eleven-year-old Floyd Rothgib, Bluffton, alleged “bad boy,” leading the officers. Did he steal the money as he said he did the watch, (although it was proven out he didn’t steal the watch at all), and why. if he didn’t is he saying that he did? Has he been blamed for so many things, that he just thinks that it isn’t any use in denying anything any more and does he think, therefore, that he might just as well make up a lot of fibs and watch the officers try to straighten them out? —Oh What? This seems to be puzzling Bluffton officials as well as others. Last Thursday the Bluffton officers called up Marshal Hancher and asked him if he has seen a strange boy around here. They gave a description of the youth, and said he had been missing from his home at Bluffton and it was learned that he had ridden here on a wheel. The family did not know where he had gotten the wheel and steps were taken to straighten out the matter. Marshal Hancher found that the boy had called at the Roberts bicycle department here, and had attempted to sell the wheel, but failed to do so for fear that it might be stolen. Mr. Hancher took the bicycle into custody and the boy returned to Bluffton Friday. Today Juvenile Officer Lipkey. Sheriff Gehrett and lhe prosecuting attorney came here to get more evidence relative to the boy, whom it was believed had stolen money. It developed that he had bought the bicycle at Bluffton for fifteen dollars and it was a matter of wonder where he had gotten so much money, steps were taken to run the matter down to rock-bottom facts. The lad also had a watch, which he had told officers at home, he had stolen from a jewelry store here. He identified the Autli store as the onr here from which he had stolen the watch and entering with the officers, showed just how 7 he had walked behin dthe case and made way with the timepiece while Mr. Auth’s back was turned. Mr. Auth. when showed the watch said that he had never carried a watch like that. The officers then went to the Pumphrey store, where the clerks said that they had sold the same last week to a boy who looked very much like this one. selling it to him for 316.50. The boy’ then gave his name as Raymond David and said he wanted the watch for his father’s birthday present He went from there to a five and ten cent store and bought a ten-cent chain. When it was proved here that the boy had bought the watch and had not stolen it. he broke down and cried and said that he had bought it and that the money which he bought all these articles from, he had stolen from a doctor at Bluffton. But did he? That is what is puzzling the officers. And they went back to that fair city to trace down a doctor who had some money stolen. Rothgib is said to have been in numerous scrapes before and that several thefts have been blamed upon him heretofore.

ABOUT TOWN Mrs. Asa Mahan, of Monmouth, was a business visitor here today. John Weber went to Fort Wayne on business today noon. BONDS ARE SOLD The Old Adams County Bank of this city purchased the bonds this] morning on the Teeter-Ba'rkalow macadam road, the issue being for! $6,800.00. The Teeter Barkalov? road ■ was the last of. the four impyov’e- 1 f mpnts approved by the ’ state tax’ board to sell. The contractor will' • Icegin work immediately i. | wishing Mrs. Krick many more j r py birthdays. ONE PRESENT ■ ; -l + r j Miss Lenore Dull, of WillsMre. 0., e will come this evening for a visit with r. Miss Doris Erwin for several days.

: LAST CALL COMES (Continued from page one) her life, however, was spent in this 1 city, where she grew to young worn anhood, admired and respected and loved by all who knew here—and to know her, was to be her friend. She was a member of the Methodist church and of the Rebekah , lodge and of several social organiza- < tions, being extremely popular with all. Her father, L. H. Purdy, and a > brother, Sam, are deceased. The mother and two sisters —Grace Mattax, of Bluffton, and Mona, at Lome, survive. HEAT VICTIMS 1 Ten Prostrations Were on i Record at Muncie Today Following Heat I WAVE ON MONDAY Telephone Girls Were Overcome — Temperaturt Ascended to 102 Degrees (United Press Service) Muncie, Ind., July 15.— l Special to . Daily Democrat) —Ten prostrations were on record here today as the result of Monday evening's intense heat. Catherine Welsh and Helen McClendon were seriously stricken and seve nother girl operators of the > Central Union Telephone company fainted late yesterday at the switchboards in the local office when the temperature ascended to 102 degrees, the highest of the season. Telephone service was impaired for a time, but the girls had returned to their work or had been replaced today. Cecil Sinclair, a returned soldier who was gassed in France, was over- ; come by the heat in a relay race held at McCulloch park as a feature of the second annual picnic of employes and families of the Indiana Steel & Wire ■ company and Kitselman Brothers Manufacturing company. A POTATO FAMINE i —; (Continued from page one) i sack contained 6 or 8 potatoes. “Those who had old potatoes in ■ store albeit they were hoary and long ■ whiskered from age lifted up their ! voice in rejoicing, nor could even po- , tatoes to the amount of 25 cents be ■ bought as all the groceries. Some i had nary a potato. Their bins were ; as bare as the cupboard of Mother I Hubbard fame. “Cut ’em out; don’t eat ’em. advised one. Easy enough to say. but > with meat and other things also high, : and with the majority of people holding potatoes next to bread, as the i secondary staff of life, ’twas easy to ■ say “cut ’em out,” but hard to put in- ■ to practice. “Can’t eat pie instead, for where are the cherries and the berries of other days “Food shortages are hard to go up against, but while this vicinity promises to be potatoless, it is to be hoped elsewhere the crops have been saved by rain.” Harley Mosure, of Bluffton, and Mr. and Mrs. James Brelner. of Tosi cin. were guests of County Auditor and Mrs. John Mosure yesterday.

UNDERWOOD FOR LEAGUE /Continued from Pago One) through an amendment compelling every member of congress to insert in the Record the amount of liquor he has stored. Gallivan claimed some members have enough to supply their families and friends for 20 years. He says he will demand a roll call on the amendment. BOYS UNDER ARREST (United Press Service) New York, July 15.— (Special to Daily Democrat) —Two boys were under arrest today, charged with the murder of Gardiner C. Hull, found ' dying from hammer blows, in his ’down-town stationary office Friday. Edward Earl Page. 21. was apprehended in Philadelphia, and Edward cording to the police both boys admitted participating in the murder (and robbery, but each contended he did not strike the blows. Both were iemluoyed as messengers by the staItionery concern.. I Hull, who died without regaining consciousness, was robbed of S2OO. | FOR RESULTS TRY WANT ADS

ill • ill ’I I I 111 _ -.^=- — j|; d 0 z EVERYTHING 1 in Summer Haberdashery ; For lhe vacation man as well as for the man who doesn’t get away this year—for sports, autoing and dress. No shirking in the making, and hence no disappointment in the looks and wear. Palm Beach and cool Cloth Suits, Straw Hats. Shirts in all the new fabrics. Hosiery in all the new colors. Beautiful Neckwear. Trunks. Suit Cases and Traveling Bags. Call in our store and let us fit you out before you start on your vacation. HOLTHOUSE, SCHULTE & CO. Good Clothes Sellers For Men and Boys. |

NELSON MORRIS COMES HOME \ V; * I ’ X. ■■'ir I 1 i /■ - - A.i Willi ' iiOfs

Nelson Morris, American minister to Sweden, photographed on his arrival In the United States for a vacation.

Gladstone's Nicknames. Talking of nicknames reminds us that young Mr. Gladstone is known to his Intimates as "Tuppence." a name which dates from his Eton days, for it was during the time that he was there that Mr. Gladstone the elder took 2d iff the income tax and the boys celebrated the event hy decorating his on with an appropriate title. But Lord Randolph Churchill went »ne better and called the promising ‘ voting Etonian the “Pocket Hercules” ‘ on account of his devotion to games. 1 and especially to football, for at this game young Gladstone excelled and i played for his house for four years.— . London Chronicle. Crow Classed as Enemy. The conservation commission places the crow at the head of the blacklist 1 of birds, qifbting a bulletin of the 1 Pennsylvania board of game commissioners to the effect that he “destroys individually more birds of all kinds, ' more birds' eggs and young poultry than any other bird that ever dapped a wing.” As a means of bringing ■ crows within easy gun-range the use • of a stuffed owl (crows delight in mob- . bing owls which they find abroad by [ daylight) is recommended, as well as a “crow call” whistle, which may be bought at sporting goods and hardware stores. CAR WAS DAMAGED > While driving north and just at the i intersection of the North Second St. i bridge, Mrs. F. E. France, driving a ; Franklin sedan last evening jammed into the back of a log wagon that ■ was standing on the bridge, the dril ver 'on the wagon evidently stopping • on the bridge to give his team a rest. - No one was hurt. The front of the • Franklin car was damaged. } ——————————— VULCANIZING Have your tires cared for by A. W. : Tajivas. Vulcanising casings 50c up; J tubes 20c up. Phone 471. 5 $ $ $ S—WANT ADS EARN—S $ $ $

MASONIC NOTICE There will be a meeting Tuesday evening, July 15. at 7:30 o’clock, for the cornering of the Entered Apprentice degree. 2t GEO. E. KINZLE, W. M. BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNIC PIERSON S BODY ARRIVES TODAY (Continued from page one) City February 16, 1892 and he was twenty-seven years old last February ■ 16. The family lived at Willshire, Ohio, for fourteen years before moving to this city four months ago. William I. Pierson enlisted at Van Wert, O„ and served twenty-two months before he received his honorable discharge last May 17. He was assigned to duty in the Rainbow Division, being a member of Company K, 166th. Nineteen of the twenty-twe months he served across seas and passed through without an injury. Six weeks ago yesterday, he began work as machinist for the Maxwell | Motor Company at Newcastle, his uncle having been instrumental in securing the work for him and his brother, on his release from military I duty. The deceased was a fine, manly-1 looking boy, as his uictures, taken in uniform, and occupying a place of honor, draped with the national colors in the home of the parents on First street will show, and his un-j timely death is a matter of great sorrow, not only to the members of his immediate family, but his innumerable friends. His immediate family includes his parents and three brothers and four sisters. The brothers are Charles, cf Newcastle: Add, of Springfield, O.; I Irvin at home. The sisters are Ella, Edna. Dorothy and Margie, at home. The funeral service will be held at the former home at Wiltshire, O» where the greater part of the young man’s life was spent. The service will be in charge of the Rev, Chas Tinkham, interment will be in the Wifishire cemetery where a brother lies. A GRATEFUL WOMAN’S STORY r I Mrs. Robert Blair. 461 S. 20th St . Terre Haute. Ind., writes: “I suffered > two years with kidney and bladder 1 trouble. After taking Foley Kidney Pills a few short weeks I found my trouble gradually disappearing. The backaches stc.nped and I am qlcn free - those tired spells and headaches, and a my vision is no longer blurred.” Fol- . ey Kidney Pills help the kldnevs i Ile bloo<i clean and eliminate the impurities that cause backache d rheumatic pains, sore, stiff and swob t len joints and muscles. W ° i_ Sold Everywhere. g I ~ j PIPE FOR FENCE POSTS ; I have on hand second-hand 1 j n 2 in., 5% in., 6/ 4 i n , g ln _ and 1Q pip. in any length, which is just the thing tor fence posts and b , als ° for cods of tiie ditches. See us for prices. J. F. ARNOLD i Suite 4. 8, «. e, People’s Loan & Trust Company Building. $ Decatur, Indiana. - Phone 7W

CLASSIFIED ABH HELP WANTED WANTED—A messenger boy at West I ern Union office. Steady job I ply at once. I FOR SALE FOR SALE —About 20 yards of~~it I grain carpet, in good condition. S« I Mrs. Will Kremers, 223 N 3rd St I ’Phone 645. I FOR SALE — Registered Flemish I Giant doe rabbit, eight months old I ’Phono 12-K. FOR SALE No. 1 Good Jersey- I Guernsey milch cow. Inquire Day I ton Hill, 1127 Patterson St., ’phone I 415. APPLESFOR SAIjCwTh/. I plenty of harvest nppks. I 'Phone your orders. Bellmont I Stock Farm, ’phone 8-L. FOR SALE —Two full blooded Roan I Durham bulls. Nine months old I Extra good ones. Enoch Heckman, I Decatur ILL Telephone 14 on A I Jine. 167-t3 I i FOR SALE—Good building lot on S. I First street. Inquire 427 Mercer I Ave. I FOR SALE —A good house and garage | with tract of land; No. 835 Mercer | 1 avenue. 145tl | FOR SALE—O. I. C. boars, eligible ; to register. Price, S3O —W E Fan rote, Decatur, Ind., R. R. No. 5; Mon- i rue ’phuue. I’Bo j FOR RENT TO RENT—Home furnished, one-half of home, more or less. Inquire Mrs. : W. J. Meyer, 234 N. sth St. or 'phone 265. 168-t3 FOR RENT—A front room in a moderp, home. Inquire 310 North Third St. « WANTED WANTED—Man’s bicycle Must be cheap for cash. Tom Kane, at the Democrat office. WANTED—New Hay. See Ernest Schlickmann. at the Breiner teed barn. 'Phone 22. MISCELLANEOUS NOTICE—The Decatur Dry Cleaning estaolishment, located on Monrot street, have secured the agency ir this city for the New Sunlight Laundry, located at Portland, Ind. Ttie laundry is a new concern and is P ul ’ ting out first class jobs. If y° u h,v! any collars, shirts or anything e' se •t* yw VMMTr flood fau-ndry ! oC done on, just call 695, and we w call for it What Is Worse than shabby clothes The wise msn of the mod- ' bus ness know what it means. When tha. new suit of yours begins to lo° k shaboy and all out of press and co-id stand a little cleaning go to the tc £ Phone and tell Central to give y 0“ number 695, then simply state you are and say you have a trial order for us for dry cleaning. thank you in advance for the order, and know that you will be satisfied. Obey the impulse, call us now. DECATUR DRY CLEANERS i 167-ts Monroe Street.