Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 18, Number 109, Decatur, Adams County, 7 May 1920 — Page 1

Volume XVIII. Number 10 9.

LEGION DRIVE FOR MEMBERS Local Post of American Legion Will Attempt to Increase Membership A NATIONAL EFFORT Week of May 17-22 Set for Movement—Organization Meeting Monday Night Adams Post, No. 43 of the American ' Legion, will meet in regular session' Monday evening, at 8 o’clock at the l G. A. R. hall, at which time they will perfect arrangements for the! membership drive to be conducted iu Nils county the week of May 17-22. This movement will be national at this time in an effort to get the remaining three million soldiers who served in the World war to join the organiza-l tion, anddt is hoped that the membership will be at least doubled. Adams Post has 127 members, and they will strive to reach the 200 mark during the week of May 17-22. T'lej organization for this campaign will be completed at the meeting of the' Legion Monday evening at the G. A. it. ball and -gvery member is urge*] ,o be present. If the desired 200 can b ■ recured it will permit the local post to send two delegates to the state convention at Vincennes June 26 and 27. Elmo Smith is the local commander. The American Legion will hold ai campaign for new im-.mhr:: Hie week of May 17-22 that ‘different." The gn at Atw y-cnii public, which has been the "drivee!’ in so many i itensive efforts of the last several years, has cultivated a fine taste in campaigns It. .■•ns come to be able to spot a pood drive from one that is poor--1 h: ndlt.< I* -».in distinguish points of variety in a campaign. It has necome a connoisseur in appeal. The public, then, will be quick 1 o recognize the essential of t'.is American T.egfon effort. In the first place, it is not a "drive." but a • push.” Back in the dim days of the early war publicity experts borrowed the word “drive" from the slang of the day, Everyone who went out after something fell into the easy habit of calling his campaign a drive." Then, when it came time for the , men who really knew what a war , “drive" was to go out after new mem- ( bets for their Legion, t|jey found that ] tlie word "drive" was as punchless as n blank cartridge. They had to die t themselves up a new word. So they , called their campaign a "push”: which is a great deal like a "drive” except ( that it goes farther in implying relestless effort and resistless force. A feature that the great general public should be quick to realize is that they, members of the public, will not be called on to contribute anything except good will. Postively no money contributions will be expected or received from them. They will be expected to exhibit their friendship, hut not their check-books. . Only some three million men ar< eligible to take active benefit of the Legion campaign. The organization now has enrolled more than a million and a half former service men and women, leaving some three million who can belong but who do not The "push," then, is aimed directly at this minority. All of the combined efforts of the million and a hah of their fellows will be devoted to bringing the absent into the fold Which moan 9- that every legionnaire will have to take on and convince two comrades. Only about one man in twenty teligihle to join the Legion It >- I 11 fectlv safe to say that hundred- o . thousands of loyal Americans would give a good deal if they weie <li -i by reason of active army, n.ny ' marine corps service, to come into the Legion. But they canont. ami > only the three million who are priviliged to take advatnage of the pus i 'But the Legion has no intention o passing up the general public, simply because it is not asking anythin,, t , the public. The Legion keenly <Lsires to interest every American in ' , "push” because it believes it >■ every American’s interest ■" 11 111 ested. which is not as ambiguous a i sotids. - While. only one American tn may he privileged to come in o Legion, every American mus’ =upip in his heart, the Legions platform “For God and Country. Load - every field of American life l,avp g ly and . ’(Continued on page two)

DECATUR I) A TTY DEMOCRAT -- - . ** i •

McCulloch is popular (United Pppsr Rervlcs) ( Indianapolis. May 7. The total vote in Marion county for governor on the Democrat It ticket, gave Carleton B. | McCulloch a majority over the three I other candidates of 3,401 or nearly I eight times more than his nearest .opponent. The total vote in Marion I county wa/: John Isenharger, 509; ICarleton B. McCulloch, 5,078; Mason 'J. Niblack. 652; James K. Risk. 516. ' ■ EVENING OF FUN I Ladies’ Night Thoroughly Enjoyed by Rotarians and Their Guests BANQUET WAS SERVED And Then Everyone Joined in the Fun—Entertainment a Great Success Hats off to the entertainment com- | mittee, who so successfully planned land carried out the Rotarian’ Indies’ Night entertainment accorded to the wives and sweethearts of the Decatur ! Rotarians last evening at the K. of P. .home. Then next in order, we’ll bow to the "cooks” and the Pythian Sister ladies who served such an excellent chicken dinner. Including real* Irish mashed potatoes and gravy, escalloped corn, hot rolls, baked by someone who put on the right "dew,” salad and jam. excellent home-made coffee, and last but not least, a bowl of sugar [graced every table. Well, in view of the above menu, it is not necessary t tell you qveryone enjoyed the meal suffice to say that we noticed that nearly every plate was spick and span when taken to the kitchen. We hear ’ one of the elderly men say "my, that was the finest meal I ever ate" —hat his wife was at another table—and then one of the women remarked, guess 11l join the Pythian Sisters and take a few lessons in cooking." It was a hummer and everyone there is waiting for the second invitation t dine there again. **" At seven o’clock. Wai Wemhoff (hairman of the entertainment committee. announced that the men would select their partners for the banquet. This was done in a clever way. : curtain was placed in the doorway be tween the assembly room and the women's reception parlor and within a few inches of the floor, just high enough to see the feminine feet on the other side and then the men sei ected their partners by picking on' the shoe or oxford as the case may be There were big ones, small ones and tiny ones and in those cases wher the man knew the size or shape of hir ladie's -hoe, mainly from practice o being forced to string them, the sele< tions were judged as being “unfai.” and he had to try again. When tin grand march to the dining room wa in progress, everyone found himself with a new partner. Even Frances Schmitt found himself with a partner other than his sweetheart. After th banquet a number of the women were called on to give a few after-dinner speeches on what they knew of R> tary and Mrs. J. F. Arnold gave r reading, reciting a story of an Italian who came to this country to find employment. The recitation was greatly enjoyed. The banquet being over the party went to the dance hall where for two hours, contests, games and a general good time was enjoyed. Songs by the sextette as well as by the men s ohoir were rendered and of course enjoyed. There was a spelling bee among the women and the smartest side wot. naturally, guessing contests and competitive contests between the men and women, the men winning 39 out of 46 games and were duly declared' I the champions/ \t ten o'clock it was that, everyone should go home. V A vote of thanks was extended to the entertainment committee, which ineluded Wai Wemhoff. D. B. Erwin. Won Burk. C. E. Bell. Hugh Hite and f Randolph Horton and the happy crowd dispersed. A CAR LOAD OF GASOLtNE s ——— II Various garages of the city who use gasoline and who have been out of 1 .. a s since last Saturday and Sunday were made happy today when the ' Standard Oil company received a car e of the precious "joy juice." The Standard company advises cunsenation, ’ land employes of the company have ” \ strong hopes that the supply will not ’ 'again become exhausted in this city. ie Evp| , y user of gas is requested to con"'serve every ounce possible.

THE BOHNKE WILL ■ Was Admitted to Protiate in Adams Circuit Court Thursday Morning ESTATE TO CHILDREN Instrument Dated July 30, 1915, Witnesses Messrs. Ehinger and Niblick The will of the late Wilhelmina Bohnke was admitted to probate in the Adams circuit court yesterday. The Instrumenf'is dated July 30, 1915, and was witnessed by E. X. Ehinger and Charles S. Niblick. Item one of the will provides for the expenses of the last sickness ami the funeral expenses, which shall be paid from personal estate, with the exception of the household goods, whic h are bequeathed to the daughter. Alvinia Bohnke. Item two sets out that it is her desire and wish that the house and 10l situated on the east side of North Second street be given to the daugher. Alvina Bohnke. -Item three makes provision of a monument or tombstone to mark the last resting place of herself and husband. if it has not already been done before her death, and provides that no nore than S2OO shall be expended for the stone. Item four states that the residue of the estate, after the above requests have been complied with, if there he any, shall go to the following children, share and share alike: C. W. Bohnke, Henry Bohnke. August Bohn--e, Sophia Miller. Ijouisa Miller. He i ■ietta Wilder, Anna Railing, Carrie Peoples and Emma Krueckeberg. Louisa Miller is now deceased. Two other children, Wilhelmina Graber and Fred Bohnke are not mentioned in the bequests for the reason that they had already received their share of the estate. It is her request that th, son-in-law, John Peoples, .serve as executor, and lie qualified as sptch Thursday. GRADUATES MET Purdue Alumni Plans to Perfect Organization of Students in the County TEN WERE PRESENT Organizations Over State Will Co-oerate in Building Memorial at School An interesting meeting of alumni itudents of Purdue university was leld at the office of County Agent Iray last evening. There were ten resent and letters were received from Alters, expressing regret that they were unable to attend, and promising >eoperation in any movement the .lumni decided to attempt. The movement which made the big tniyerslty at Lafayette possible start'd May 6. 1869, and it was the desire if the ajumni association of the university that all ex-students meet on h£s date and make plans for the ion of a memorial building oir the university grounds in honor of, the (indents and ex-students who servedn the World war, and to create a •loser feeling between the alumni members and the university.. The nesting last night was the first held njhis county, although in adjoining ■ounties organizations have been elective some time. Another meeting will he held Monday evening. June 14. in this city, at . which time the sixteen Adams county students now at the university will be back from school, and will probably attend. It is the plan of the alumni here to form an orgenization, and create a greater enthusiasm for the school. There are eight pr nine graduates in the county at this time, although there are a number who grad uated from the university and have located elsewhere. CALL FOR STATEMENTS (United Press Service) Washington, May 7.—(Special to ’ Dally Democrat)—The comptroller of > the currency today issued a call for ■ the condition of national banks at the close of business May 4. : Indianapolis, May 7.—(Special to t Daily Democrat) —Tbe state depart- . ment cf banking today Issued a call ■ for the condition of state hanks at the close of« business May 4. / '

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, May 7, 1920.

i TO MAKE ANOTHER ATTEMPT * I (United Press Service) Dover, Del., May 7. —(Special to Daily Democrat l The Delaware login- ‘ ktturte today stood adjourned until Muy 17 when suffragists will make another attempt to force passage of tbe resolution ratifying the federal , suffrage constitutional amendment in the lower house. Friends of suffrage In the senate obtained Hie recess aft- , era Idtter fight. GET DIPLOMAS Three Decatur Girls Complete Nurse’s Course at Lutheran Hospital GRADUATION EXERCISE Was Held Last Evening— Several Decatur People Attended the Event Several Decatur people, including, C. J. Lute. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smith. Rev. and Mrs. L. W. Stolte, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Kirsch. Mr. and Mrs. Mat Kirsch. Mrs. Glen Cowan and Mr. and I Mrs. August Yager and Mr. and Mrs.' Otto Reppert of this city, attended the graduation exercises of the senior class of the nurses training department of the Lutheran hospital at the St. Paul's auditorium. A class of twenty-four young ladies were graduated and diplomas were, awarded to them, including three Decatur girls, the Misses Rowena Shoaf. Kirsch and Augusta Yager. Nearly a thousand people attended the exercises. Addresses were made by Rev. Louie Nuechtertein, of St. Joseph. Mich., and Dr. W. O. Gross, of Fort Wayne. Rev. August presented the diploma.-. The St. Paul’s orchestra furnished the music for the occasion with several other individual solos a part of thprogram. The members of the graduating class are: Misses Helen Boyer, Harriet McMillen, Edna Arndt, Reha Betters. Dortba Madison, Lile Koch, Rowena Shoaf. Aurelia Wendlandt. Montez Emery, Amelia Nord. Mae Heine. Ern i Lnedders. Jeanette Bryan. Dortha Stewart. Addah Bell. Augusta Yeager. | Beatrice Greenwait. Susie Gaff. Lvdiai Kirsch, Meta Arndt, Edith Bald, Theo ] dora Rickenberg. Mae Wilson, and: Vesta Neff. This is the largest class ever gradn- < atyd from the Lutheran hospital school. Be sure to seothe kacht race in the play, “Mr. Bob," tonight. INSTALL CHAPTER Decatur Tri Kappas Assist Grand President at Rluftton Thursday Evening ELEVEN NEW MEMBERS Twenty Drove Over From Decatur —Installation at the Fred Bell Home — — Twenty Decatur ladies, members of the local Tri Kappa chapter, left - here at 7 o'clock last evening for Bluffton, where they assisted in the installation of a new chapter in that ' city. The work was under the direction of Grand President Mary Callahan of Peru, and the installation setvices were held at the home of Mrs. Fred Bell, formerly of this city. The class was composed of the following ladies, most of whom are well known in this city: Vera Bell, I Lucile Blackman. Nina Hatfield, Lois Kunkle. Catherine DeHaven. Elisai betih Dailey, Bessie Sale, Florence . Williamson, Alice Arnold. Lucile . Rogers and Hazel Rainey. The Bluffton chapter is the sixty- . fifth in the state, and the memberfihip now numbers more than 2.000. , Mrs. Jesse Helm calne down from Fort Wayne and accompanied the Decatur girls to Bluffton last evening. Mrs. Roger Gipe, who is visiting here, also accompanied the girls. After the Installation ceremony a 3 luncheon was served hy Mrs. Bell and f a social time enjoyed. r Saturday afternoon at one o’clock e tha members of tbe third district, of which Decatur is a part, will have a luucheou at the Anthony be’el in o Fort Wayne and practically all of : tbe members of the Decatur chapter I will attend. t The Bluffton trip was especially enjoyed l>y the Decatur girls.

AT RIPE OLD AGE ) ■ i Jacob C. Kiefer, One of the ■] County’s Oldest Residents I Died Thursday Night ’ AT HOME OF HIS SON j 1 Born in Germany and Came to This County in i [ 1834—Funeral Sunday Jacob (’. Kiefer, one of the oldest 'residents of the county, died at the j home of his son. Martin, heax, Fried(heini last evening at 8 o'clock, after a two weeks’ illness which developed into bronchial pneumonia. Mr. Kiefer ' I was born in Germany, a son of Mr. I and Mrs. Christ Kiefer, in 1826 and I came to this country eight years iat.-r with his parents and grandparents. They settled in Preble township. Adams county, making Mr. Kiefer t: resident here eighty-three yearrf. There were but two or three families in the neighborhood around Fried- , heim at that time, and the country I was all woods, when wild animals t were numerous and it was at time. dangerous for human beings to be about. The family cleared a nice farm and have continued to live in the same neighborhood since coming to the county. His age was 91 years. ~ months and 3 days. Last April 10th. Mrs. Kiefer died, , and the husband follows the wife in * death Irtss than a month later. Surviving are the following children: Charles and Martijt and Hulda. at Friendheim; Emil and Christ and Mr-. Julius liaugk, Decatur; Mrs. Gust Reinking, Union township; Mrs. William Ijepper, Fort Wayne. There also survive thirty-six grandchildren and ! twenty great-grandchildren. Fuheral services will ije held Sunday afternoon from the Friendheim Lutheran church at 2 o’clock, sun time, with the IRev. Preuss officiating. Burial will be made in the church ■ cemetery. \ . —— S TO VISIT WITH IIS . [About 100 Wholesalers and Jobbers From Ft. Wayne Will Visit Decatur |ON TUESDAY, MAY 25 Coming in Special Car— Will Bring a Band and Call on Merchants — The heads of about fifty Fort Wayne wholesale houses are coming to Decatur on a special train of interurban I cars on the morning of Tuesday, May : 25th, for the purpose of getting better ] acquainted with the retail merchants of this city. The plan is the same as ( that followed for several years by tbe jobbers and wholesalers of other cities. The party plans to reacli here at 8:15 o'clock and will remain for about an hour and forty-five minutes, during which time a short parade will be given, headed by a band. The band will then give a concert during the remainder of the stay. The visitors , will individually call at the various stores, and with a glad smile and handshake will meet personally the business men of this city. The traveling salesmen from the Fort Wayne houses have visited Decatur for year, but this is the first time the Fort WaJ’ne wholesalers have made a Vusi' > ness of calling personally on their s "trade.” The train will leave Fort Wayne at s 7 o’clock on the morning of May 25th. . It will include a baggage car to carry ,jthe necessary "commissary" depart > inent for the serving of luncheon en- | route. The occasion will doubtless .'be made quite an event here. The J Fort Wayne party will contain upward of 100 men. They will visit 30 cities. i e PLAY AT GARRETT The high school base ball team, i. under the leadership of Coach Groves left at noon today for Garrett where I'they will meet the Garrett high school | nine this afternoon in the first game s of tbe season away from home. The f[ team “left the city with great couiii deuce of returning home victorious, D au d to continue winning throughout f tbj season. Tbe Garrett outfit is r oouuidered as one of tbe strongest ■ high school teams in tiffs section of the state, and the locals will have a (hard battle before them.

WILL NOT LOCATE HER»The Fort Wayne Tea company. Which had planed to locate in the > Spanjtler room pn Madison street, in Ulis city, has given up Ils lease on the building, and will not locate in Decatur at this lime. The room had been vacated by Tommie Leonard, the tinner, who had occupied it sever 11 years, hud been nicely repapered and painted, and was ready for oecupancv. ’BRIDGE UNSAFE The North Bridge on Fort Wayne Road is Unsafe— Condemned by Board CLOSED TO TRAFFIC New Bridge Necessary — Meeting of County Council Will be Called County Superintendent of Highways Jim Hendricks and members of the board of Adams county commissioners. including David J. Dilling. Grant jOwens and Robert Schwartz, after examining the North bridge, spanning the St. Mary's river just north of the city limits, on the Fort Wayne-Deca-tur road, have pronounced it unsafe for travel and have closed It to traffic. in other words, the bridge. In its present state, has been condemned and it will be necessary for the county to build a new one. A special meeting of the board of commissioners will be held tomorrow ; morning, at which time some action will he taken and in all probability a special meeting of the county count 1 will be called for the purpose of appropriating enough money to build ,i lew bridge. The present bridge is one of the oldest landmarks in the county. It is of wooden construction and stood up exceptionally well under the heavy traffic which has gone over it within the last few years. The bridge itself is split, tliat Is. the “string” is broken and the abutments at one end has cracked and given away. The bridge was closed this morning by Mr. Hendricks and tourists and others will be forced to detour to the Piqua road on the east when coming or leaving Decatur. A number of road matters will also he taken up by the commissioners tomorrow. STAKE OFF LOTS The Decaturf Home Builders’ association yesterday afternoon staked off forty lots just west of tbe General Electric plant, and they are planning to erect a few houses there in tbe near future. The contract for the excavation of the basements and the build ing of the foundations for the three houses, for which the C. N. Christen company has the contract, on Third ■ind Fifth streets, was let yesterday to Yost Bros. Work will start Mon day. and these houses will be rushed to completion. “MR. BOB" TONIGHT The Central school play, "Mr. Bob,” will be given at the Gym this evening. The doors will open at 7:30 o'clock and the play will start promptly at 8. j Many tickets have been sold and it, you want a seat you had beter go, early. TAKEN TO HOSPITAL Father Kreoger. who has been ill the past few days, was taken to the St. Joseph hospital. Fort Wayne, for treatment Thursday afternoon by his physician. Dr. H. E. Keller. His condition is not serious, and she is getting along nicely. — MR. KINZLE BETTER The condition of George Kinzle, who is seriously ill at his home on North Second street, is reported improved today. SURE HE WAS (United Press Service) Topeka. Kan.. May 7.—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Eighth grade examinations here yielded these: “Frances Wllard was a prize tight." “To teach Calcutta take tbe Missouri river *o London." ++++++* + * + + + + + + THE WEATHER FORECAST + ♦++♦+♦♦+ + + + + + + Part cloudy tonight and Saturday, probaldy local showers.

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LATER RETURNS INCREASES LEAD 1 * I ~~ Carleton McCulloch Has a ! Lead of Nearly 26,000 Votes Over Next Man FEW PRECINCTS OUT , Fesler Carried Marion County Over McCray by Only One Vote (United Press Service) Indianapolis, May 7 (Spci cial to Daily Democrat) Later , , returns from 3,319 of the State’s 3,387 precincts increasjed McCulloch's plurality to | 25,670. I'hese returns give McICulloch 16.2X9. Niblack. 20.- | 619; Isenhergi r 18,660; Risk. ] 1 1.X03. Indianapolis. May 7. — (Special to Daily Democrat) —Complete unofficial • returns from the presidential preferential balloting in Indiana primaries (Tuesday gave the following standing today: Major General Wood 85,776: Senator Johnson 79,829: Governor Lowden 31.118: Senator Harding 29.819. Plurality for Wood 5.937. The final returns indicate the vote was not so light as it was thought t : have been Tbe total vote of the re publicans, according to these figures waes approximately 217.500. Warren T. McCray had a majority of 4.081 over the field in the republican governorship race with fourteen precincts in Switzerland county yer ;to be heard from. The vote from 3,373 of the 3,387 precincts gave McCray 108.907; FesJer 63,591: Toner 41.235. Complete official returns from Marion county, in which Indianapolis is located, gave Harding 1.528; Johnson 5.160; Lowden 3.358; Wood 13.485. The returns show James W. Fesler( ' candidcation for the republican nom--1 ination for governor, carried his home 1 county by a plurality of one vote over 1 McCray. The standing in this contest was: Fesler 10.312; McCray 10.311: Toner 2.295. IS A NEGRESS (United Press Service) Omaha. Neb.. May 7- (Special io Daily Democrat) —Thorn McCree. blue eyed and fair skinned is a negress. Science today drove the fourteen-year-old girl back to her own race just when dreams of a future among white play niatds seemed about to true. A drop of blood from Thora s riirht ear was dropped on a microscope slide It showed a deviation from the corpuscles of a white person and J)r. Seaman sai dthere was no doubt the girl was a negress. Added to this was some documents delivered to Miss Hudlin. investigator for the welfare board. These documents proved the girl born of a negress. she said. FALL OF KIEFF A FACT (Urfited Press Service) London, May 7.— (Special to Dnilv Democrat) —"The fall of Kieft is an | accomplished fact." the Polish information bureau today announced. The statement however, was ecceoted with reserve because of earlier unfounded reports that the bolsheviki had been driven from the capitol of the Ukraine. The whole of the Ukraine, east of the river Dniper. is rising against the soviets, the Polish statement said CHICAGO MARKET CLOSE (United Press Service) Chicago. May 7—(Special to Daily ] Democrat) — Corn: May, $1.91%: July, $1.74%; Sept. $1.63. Oats: May, $1.05%; July, 93%c. MARRIED IN FORT WAYNE Miss Bernice Berger and Walter Wilkinson, both of this city, were married Tuesday evening in Fort Wayne, hy Rev. Jones, pastor of one iof the Methodist churches there. The marriage license was noted in n , Fort Wayne paper of Wednsday. Im* tbe particulars could not be ascer- > tained yesterday. Mr. Wilkinson is the son of Mrs. Minerva Wilkinson of this city aud is, employed by Chris- ■ ten & Smith, plumbers, of this city. Tbe bride has been employed iu Ft. > Wayne for some time, but is well known here, having worked at differ- , ent places in this city. The couple will make their home here. I