Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 17, Number 247, Decatur, Adams County, 17 October 1919 — Page 5

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about town Corn cutterrs are askin’ $7 a day n . , )oan i. or about s!><> a week. Furn.lW gloves 'll soou cost enough t’ w.ar f tb’ theater.—Abe Martin in Indianapolis News. Pack all your ’eats’ in your box and gl) . go, 80.” Where? Why out to the Mt. Pleasant school tonight, to the box social. Mrs. Clayson Carroll went to Fort Wayne this mornini to call on Mrs. E. L Carrell at the St. Joseph hospital. She was resting easier yesterday afternoon. Mrs Dan Tyndall left this morning to attend the Morning Musicale at the Elks’ hall in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Christens is spending the day in Fort Wayne. just think of all the good things you will miss if you don’t get your supper at the K. of I’, home Satur-day-chicken an’ cake an’ pie an’ cver’thin’. Mrs. Albert Hodgson returned to her home in Winchester today after visiting with Mrs. Dallas Hunsicker and Mrs. B. E. Miller. Mrs. Mary Johnson of Mackinaw, Mich., is visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Avery. Tula Poling and Florence Meyers, who are employed at the Lutheran hospital in Ft. Wayne w»*re guests of Miss Bertha Drummond lase evening. Mrs. John H. Heller left today for Indianapolis to visit witn her daughter. Fanny, who will corne from Bloomington. —Are you all ready for the masquerade at the Ben Hur hall tonight ? If you aren’t you had better get busy, as they are going to have a rousing good time. I Mrs. Anthony Lengerich and Mr. W. E. Kintz went to Ft. Wayne this

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morning to visit with Mr. Lengerich and his daughter, Bertha, who are l>oth patients in the St. Joe hospital. Both have typhoid fever and have passed over the worst and are getting along as well as can be expected. Miss Anna Winnes went to Ft. Wayne this morning to attend to business. F. E. Foreman, T. A. Gottschalk and 1. G. Kerr of Berne attended the ban* quet at the Knights of Pythias home last evening. Mrs. D. L. Barkley was here on business yesterday and visited with her sister, Mrs. Eli Girod. Mrs. Grace Dutcher returned to her home in Ft. Wayne atfer visiting with Mrs. J. D. Merlca. Rev. C. J. Miner went to Monmouth this morning to call on Mrs. Henry Rodenbeck. who is quite ill. She will be operated upon in a few days. Mrs. Susie Magner returned to her home in Fort Wayne after a visit with Mrs. Emma Staley. Ralph Rabbitt left this morning for Sioux City. lowa. His brother. Edwin, has been there for several years. Mr. Charles Rabbitt and son. Bernard, accompanied him as far as Fort Wayne. Mrs. M. Gilson will return to her home in Drumright, Okla., after a two months’ visit here and surrounding places with old friends. She formerly lived here. Line up. gentlemen. A widow of Los Angeles, who says “You bet I can brew.” has written to the marriage license bureau to find her a husband. Jack, immigrant Belgian pqlice dog, of Portland, Ore., is beginning to fear he isn’t welcome in America. He was ejected after entering church Sunday and was expelled when he went to school yesterday. Mrs. Charles Colter and Mrs. Wash Gilpin left this morning for Detroit for a visit with the Ed Berry family. Mrs. G. W. Shady who has been visiting in the city and county with . relatives left today for her home in , northern Michigan, stopping first at Sturgis for a visit with relatives. Grover Miller, formerly of this i city, stoped off last evening for a ' visit with friends, He is working in 1 Detroit for the Dodge Brothers motor company. France Center will leave tonight for Indianapolis to attend the Indiana vs. Minnesota football game. Mrs. Samuel Butler went to Fort Wayne to visit with her daughter, I Miss Ircta, who is training for a nurse at the new Hope-Methodist hospital.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17. 1919.

INVENTOR OF’BIG BERTHA"IS INSANE I *’ ’ I • * ■ • <• j -5 * ' Ghosts of Victims of Huge Gun Have Unseated His Reason. SUCCESS BRINGS REMORSE Men Whose Mind* Failed te Stand Up Under Strain and Horrors of War His Only Companions. Berlin.—-The Inventor of the “Big Bertha,” which first shelled Pails on March 23, 1918, from a distance of, nearly 80 miles, now Is an Inmate of the German state asylum In Anderuach. Men whose minds fulled to stand up under the strain and horrors of war are his only companions. The inventor does not associate with the other Inmates. At rare intervals he speaks with the doctors or nurses in the hospital, but then only a few words. But, once when an American soldier entered, the German's face lighted up like that of a child with a new toy. To the astonishment of the hospital attendants he at once approached the visitor and began to converse with him in English. As he talked his Interest In the. young American seemed almost pathetic. He asked of America, America’s part in the war, what America expected to do with Germany, and particularly was anxious to learn what America thought of the German air raids during the war and the bombardment of Paris by the "Big Bertha.” Tells Story of Life. Then, as if afraid that the young soldier from overseas was about to sentence him to some horrible punishment. he suddenly began to tell the story of his own life. As a young man he had studied at the greatest universities in Germany. Chemistry and mechanics had been his favorite subjects, and in these he showed great aptitude. As was natural In Germany at that time, his researches soon took him into the field of perfecting weapons of war. His work in Jhls line attracted the attention of his government. They gave him every opportunity for study. He was sent to England, America ami France. Tn those places he studied at dose range the guns used by the armies, the chemical composition of explosives and the methods of manufacturing great shells. When he returned to Germany he was given stock in the Krupp works, at Essen. Profiting by his studies nad what be had learned in other lands, this man set about to develop what would event-, ually be the mightiest cannon in the world. Then came Angus!. 1914. and the war. According to the Inventor, his efforts were redoubled. The big guns, which destroyed the forts of Belgium, were not sufficient. For years, the inventor said, he had dreamed and planned a weapon that would reach Paris, ami when the war came he, together with the greatest scientist of Germany, began working upon the cannon. Success Brought Only Remorse. In the spring of 1918. the inventor said, they believed their plan had been accomplished. The great gun was finished and moved to a spot in the lines from which its shells could reach Paris. Finally came the day when it was fired on Paris for the first time. Apparently it was a success. For a few days all Germany celebrated, the inventor said. For him. however, this Joy was shortlived. Hardly had the celebration ended when the sillies seemed to take on a new lease on life. Instead of discouraging litem \the great gun appeared to have driven them to greater efforts. "Then came the stories of the sufferings caused by the gun." the inventor said. "Instead of killing soldiers we bad murdered women and children. My nights became sleepless. When 1 did drop into a doze my dreams were terrible. I became sick with the thoughts of my work. I lost weight. T could not face my family, and the sight of women and children on the street made me faint. Then something snapped.” Sucks Poison From Snake Site. Colome, S. D. —Heroic action of his mother In sin king poison inji ed from the fangs of a rattlesnake from his leg. saved the Ih’o of Gaylord Townsend. seven years old. of Mellette county. The boy was walking with his parents across the prarle near their home, when the snake, which had been concealed in a cluster of weeds, struck him as he passed. A friend of the I family lanced the wound causing it i to bleed freely, after which Mrs. Town • send sucked out the poison. The fangs ! of the snake struck the boy twice above the ankle. Eight Shots to Kill Mad Dog. i Topeka. Kan.—"A dog-goned hard Job!" exclaimed Detective Harvey Williams as he retreated from a supposed “mad dog” after having emptied his revolver at the animal. “Some dog to kill,” he declared. Then Hiram Sturm, who lived nearby. arrived on the scene with a revolver and a billy. He fired three shots at the do# and finished the jpb with the billy. > -_d

S£RGT. WILLIAM SANDLIN •ITT . i . 1 | fv h Sergeant York's nearest rival as the greatest individual hero of the war lives in Lexington, Ky. He is Sergt. William Sandlin, twenty-eight years old, and hie record is 24 dead Germans for one day’s work. Last Sep tember 2fi, 1918, near Bois de Fergcr, France, Sandlin, unaided and alone, killed the 24 Germans and captured six machine guns, escaping without a scratch. For this remarkable feat he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the Medaille Militaire of France and the French Croix de Guerre with palm. ■— — ■ -

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