Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 19, Number 148, Decatur, Adams County, 23 June 1921 — Page 1

Volume XIX. Number 148.

FUNDS AVAILABLE Township Trustees and Treasurers of Corporations Can Get Amounts DUE LN JUNE DRAW Decatur School Corporation Only One to Have Part of Funds Advanced County Auditor Jaberg today completed his work of fixing the amounts and writing the checks for the various townships and corporations, that they may have the money due them from the spring installment of the taxes The money goes to the various funds for the purposes for which levies were made. The Decatur school corporation found it necessary to draw in advance the sum of $20,975 to meet hills as they became due. The state of Indiana asked an advance of $12,500 for the state benevolent institutions and for state educational purposes. The amounts each township trustee, each corporation treasurer, and the state and library funds are: Union $ 6,283.83 Root 15,251.97 Preble 6,535.55 Kirkland 7,800.13 Washington 11.730.06 St. Marys 19,238.01 Blue Creek 12,619.68 Monroe 12,736.12 French 6,759.22 Hartford 15,593.19 Wabash 8,845.18 Jefferson 13,295.13 Decatur 17.956.81 Berne 11,542.81 Geneva 6,905.21 City of Decatur 43,972.39 Town of Monroe 851.10 Town of Berne 6,434.25 Town of Geneva 3.673.45 Decatur Library 2.663.09 State of Indiana 45,186.94 DAWES TO DRAFT HELP (United Press Service) Washington, June 23. —(Special to Daily Democrat) —A large force of the nation’s leading business men, possibly one hundred, will be “conscripted" to serve without pay in putting the government cn a bsmuess basis, Charles G. Daw.-i of Chicago, announced on his arrival here today after a conference with Presidet Harding. Dawes said “pitiful machinery projob of director of the budget. Dawes said “pitful machinery provided by the budget law” for this task makes it necessary to rely on v ointeer assistance. Only four are given them untie, the law. , “One might as well be handed a toothpick with which to tunnel Pike's Peak,” Dawes declared. COLGATE TO VISIT McCRAY (United Press Service) New York, June 23.—(Special to

Daily Democrat) — Harry A. Colgate of the Colgate & Company, may go to Indianapolis within the next few ays to confer with Governor Warren T. McCray regarding the governor's second request for abrogation of the contract in which the company agreed to buy the site of the Indiana reformatory at Jeffersonville. It was learned at the office of Col gate & Company, here that Colgate may go to Indianapolis before the end of this week to discuss with the In diana governor the company s lefusal to acceed the first request. Although executive officers of the company refused to make a definite statement it seemed to be their intention to hold their position outlined in their first refusal and wail action by the Indiana legislature. Colgate & Company, it was said, has deposited $105,003 "* i- t' ,p government as the ‘nitiai payment on the reformatory. INDIANAPOLIS MARKET Indianapolis, Ind., June 23- (S, p< cial to Daily Democrat)— Hog receipts 1,000, market 10 cents lower; best heavies $8.65-$8.75; medium mix ed $8.75; common choice sß.7u; bit. sales $8.75: cattle receipts. 80 , steady; steers $6.00-$8.35; cows am heifers $2.50-$8.00; sheep recelP-S 800, market steady; tops SLOO-$3.5U. ROTARY CLUB THIS EVENING Decatur Rotary club will meet this evening at the Industrial assoc a ion rooms. The entertainment commi - tee has prepared an educational pin gram that Is vitally interesting 0 every member.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

MARRIED WEDNESDAY Rev, R. R. Elliker, at the Reformed parsonage Wednesday afternoon ottl- [ ciai jl at the marriage of Miss Emma Yake and Mr. Carsten Nissen. The bride is a daughter of Mr and Mrs. Ferdinand Yake, who live near Decatur, *hlle the groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Christen Nissen and is a resident of Adrian, Mich. Following the marriage the couple left on a trip to Buffalo and Niagara Falls, and on their return will be at home to their friends at 171 South Scatt street, Adrian, Mich., the groom being employed at the Hages shoe store there. WAS RE-ELECTED Mrs. Thurman Gottschalk Named to Succeed Herself as School Trustee in THE TOWN OF BERNE Defeated Hugo Beitler— Mrs. Gottschalk Completes Husband’s Term Mrs. Thurman Gottschalk, at the regular meeting of the town council, was elected to succeed herself as a member of (he Berne school board, her term to be three years. Mrs. Gottschalk had been a member of the board since January, when she was named to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of her husband, when he was compelled to resign because he had been elected to the Indiana general assembly. Mrs. Gottschalk is the only woman in Adams county serving on a school board. She is a capable official, and the Berne council acted wisely in renaming her. Hugh Beitler was for (Continued on page four) MAIL WAS HEAVY Force at Reppert’s Office Placed Twenty Thousand Pieces of Mail in the DECATUR POSTOFFICE (n the Past Few Days—Advertised the Home Week, Fair, Auction School, etc. The force at the Decatur postoffice this week were under the impression that Sears-Roebuck or Montgomery Ward had moved their big establishments to this city, the reason therefor being the large amount of mail deposited for outgoing mails from the Reppert offices. For a week or more nine extra girls, besides the regular office force have been busy addressing and wrapping advertising matter for the

Northern Indiana Fair, the Old Home Week celebration to be held in connection therewith, the Fourth of July races, the auction school and the Hereford sale put on Saturday by T he Adams County Hereford Breeders’ Association. Altogether there were more than twenty thousand pieces of mail, going to every part of the country. Every piece of mail advertised Decatur and Adams county, and did you ever stop lo think that the Northern Indiana Fair places Decatur on the map everywhere in this broad land of ours? ft is talked about in every community, because of the splendid success of last year. Help boost it; it benefits every citizen. THREE ARE FINED The cases of trespass filed by Otis Osterman vs. James leisure, Millard Hendricks. William Brandyberry ami Clifford Essex, which were tried before 'Squire Kintz yesterday and today, resulted in the charge against Brandyberry being dismissed, and Laisure, Hendricks and Essex were each fined $5.00 and costs, amounting in all to about S3O Badh of the three men appealed their cases to the circuit court, each giving bond in the sum of SIOO. ♦ *THE *WeVh*er* ?O*REC*AST* ♦ •«♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦** Indiana—Unsettled weather with locil thundershowers this afternoon or tonight in extreme portion; Friday part cloudy, not much change in tern- ! PS Lower Michigan—Fair toniglit cooler jn northeast portion; Friday increasing cloudiness and cooler; probably showers in south portions. • upper Michigan—Generally fair tonight and Friday; cooler Friday.

OPENS ON MONDAY; Second Term of Reppert Auction School Starts Off on Monday Morning ENROLLMENT IS GOOD Business Men and Others Who Have Goods to Sell Notify .1. O. Sellemeyer The school room in Bellmont park is undergoing a house cleaning, and is being gotten ready for the opening of the second term of the auction school which will begin on Monday of next week. Enrollments are still coming in, and prospects are very flatter ing for a good-sized class, even though this is the busy time of the year for most of the students. Many of them are enrolling for the January term, saying it is impossible to get away at this time, as many of the students come from the farms, and are either stock men themselves, or sons of farmers who have pure-bred live stock. Students who are enrolling come from a large territory, one of them being from Oregon, and another from Massachusetts—just as far apart as they can possilde get in this old country of ours. The regular auctions which will be held every evening, and which proved to be a big attraction during the first term, offering not only more amusement and entertainment than a vaudeville show, but enabled the merchants and others to dispose of considerable surplus or extra stock, free of charge thereby enabling them to turn it into cash quickly, and giving the people of this community many bargains will be a feature again. Manager J. O. Sellemeyer requests that any merchant or anyone else having goods which he desires to sell at these auctions, call him up, and let him know what he has to offer. He desires to sell all goods offered by Decatur and Adams county people, but they must have plenty of goods to sell as this is a part of the auction course in 1 which the students receive actual experience. Start an inventory from garret to cellar. See if you do not have some article of furniture or clothing, or clothing, or anything else that yon would like to turn into money. Phone ' 606 and tell Mr. Sellemeyer what you have discovered. MADE IT SNAPPY I Secretary Denby Hands Admiral Sims an Order to i Make Complete Report , ON “JACKASS” SPEECH • The Admiral Says Wrong

Inference was Given Now Famous London Talk I’nKed I’rex- Service. Washington. June 23.—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Secretary of the Navy Denby today ordered Read Admiral Sims to give him a complete report on his London “Jackass” speech. Any action that Denby may conemplate against Sims will await this formal report on the accuracy of dispatches reporting Sims’ remarks concerning Irish sympathizers in the United States. Denby’s instructions were given Sims when the admiral reported to the secretary in accordance with others cabled him while in Europe. “Admiral Sims denied the accuracy of the statements attributed to him in dispatches reporting his London speech," Denby said. "I gave him a written memorandum which amounts to an official order Instructing the admiral to inform me in writing wherein he was misquoted and if he could, to state just what he did say in that speech. "1 want an early reply to this order." Sims was with Denby only a moment. Denby handed him the written order and Sims left almost immediately. Sims then went to call on Admiral Coontz, chief of naval operations, refusing to comment on his conference with Denby. dance of season Attend the dance of the season at the Masonic hall tomorrow evening. One of the best orchestras ever in ■ the hall will furnish the music. It - you haven't heard the famous Metro- | politan orchestra come and hear them I tomorrow evening.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Evening, June 23, 1921.

i——— i THE CHAUTAUQUA TICKETS The season Chautauqua tickets I will be placed on sale within a few | days and those who subscribed I for one or more tickets last year should make it a point to get their tickets at once. The subscribed season adult tickets are only two | dollars, plus war tax per ticket; children's, one dollar, plus war tax while others will be fifty cents I higher. You can save money by buying your ticket from one of the I subscribers. The chautauqua starts on Sunday. July 17th and [ continues for five days, closing on Thursday. July 21st. The five day program is a wonderful one. SOLDIER BONUS Is Favored by Senator McCumber in a Red Hot Speech in Senate Today (United Press Service) Washington, June 23.—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Flaying war time laborers as “stay at home slackers” and cost plus contractors as “profiteering pirates” Senator McCumber. North Dakota, today urged the senate to pass promptly the soldier bonus bill. Conscription of labor in war time —the patriotic duty between soldier and civilian being concurrent and equal was the principal upon which McCumber based his attack on “war profiteers of all classes.” “If ever there is another great war,” he asserted, "that principal will be invoked. “The blood of the patriotic soldier must have boiled with indignation to feel that while his government estimated his services including bis board and clothing at about $3 a day with all the risks and hardships,” he continued. “any man who could saw a rough board or drive a nail qualified as a carpenter and received his $lO a day whether he was fifty or five per cent efficient. “Leaving out of computation every vestige of sentiment, every element ot gratitude and applying only the rigid rule of mathematics, we cannot deny that by allowing the men who fought for his country, who placed his life in pawn, the increase in his compensation provided in this bill. We are still giving him for his services with all his risks and hardships a compensation much below that which the common laborer received in the United States during his absence.” WAS OPERATED UPON Irvin Steele, one if the “newsies” of this office was operated upon this morning for the removal of his tonsils and adenoids, Dr. Rayl performing the operation. Irvin Is doing fine . and is expected to be able to be out

within a few days. Jimmie Leonard is carrying his route. biillonsarFpaid In Income Taxes and Excess Profits —Report on Second Quarter is Made BY THE TREASURY Expected That Total Will be Five Billion and This Will Cover Expenses (United Press Service) Washington. June 23.—(Special to Daily Democrat) —More than $474,000,000 has been collected in excess profits and income taxes the second installment of which was payable June 15, according to a treasury statement today. The installments will total nearly $600,000,000 when fully tabulated, it Is expected. Total collections this year will be more than $5,000,000,000 treasury officials believe, with expenditures running slightly below this amount. Ihe government, these reports indicate, is beginning to live within its income for the first time in several years. Tax collections of all kinds from ordinary sources so far this month total $513,200,000 as compared with $795,900,000 for June 1920. Customs receipts this month amount to $16,780,000 or only about $1,000,000 below the receipts for the same period of 1920. Panamas Canal tolls during June i 1921 however total only $244,352 or f about one third of the tolls for June - 1920. This is one more indication, i officials said, of the world commercial stagnation and depression.

STOP OVER NIGHT Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Smith and Daughters and Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Smith ENROUTE TO PETOSKEY — Happened to Meet Decatur’s A. J. Smith, and Had Delightful Visit Visitors In the city over night were Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Smith and daughters, Dorothy and Edna; Mr. and Mrs. Alfred R. Smith, of Cincinnati, 0., who were enroute by automobile from I Cincinnati, O„ to Petoskey, Mich., where they epend the summer months jeach year. During their stay here they visited the Masonic lodge and club rooms, and were very much surprised to see so nice a home for the Masons and their families as the lodge has here. They left this morning on their northern trip. Mr. J. W. Smith Is the worshipful master of Galena lodge, Cincinnati. , Their visit to the lodge home was brought about by a peculiar co-in-<<t<n<e. They stored their c.<r in a local garage, and walking along the streets they gazed on the Morrison building, and of course the men l;e Ing interested in lodge affairs, natur ally thought perhaps it was the Masonic home. One of the men saw a gentleman coming down the street and remarked that he would find out, and f.sked him about it. Th,? man happened to be Mr. A. J. Smith, and one question brought on another, and one of the Cincinnati Smiths introduced himself, and on being told that the Decatur man was "Mr. Smith" also, the party had a nice little visit. Mr. A. J. Smith took them to the Masonic home, introduced them to many Decatur people, and they had a fine hour’s visit here. Near Geneva the tourists drove through a cloudburst, the water on the roadway coming over the running boards of their machine, and they were compelled to pull their suit cases and luggage into the car. MEET AT INDUSTRIAL ROOMS The Rotarians will meet at the Decatur industrial rooms at seven o’clock this evening and a good program lias been arranged. Members are urged to be present. A GREAT CROWD Attended Buffalo Barbecue and Hereford Cattle Sale of Shady and Son AT KINGSLEY, IOWA

Predicted That Bellmont ’ Park Will Entertain a * Throng on July Fourth ii At the Hereford cattle sale of J. A. t Shade & Son. at Kingley, la., this a week, which, by the way, was a most f successful sale, the cattle averaging I around the S3OO mark, these men, as ' one of the big features, put on a big f Buffalo barbecue. They arranged to put this on after they had heard of I the one advertised here in connection 1 with the race meet of the Decatur I Driving Association to be given here I at Bellmont park, July 4th. If the big barbecue here at that time should at I tract as many people at the one at I lowa on Tuesday, the Bellmont park : will resemble the biggest days of the I fair last year. Several thousand peo- 1 pie attended this sale. Many of them went to bid on and buy Hereford cattle, but everyone was especially interested in getting a piece of real buffalo meat, feeling that it was one of the opportunities that come but seldom in a lifetime. The barbecue was a decided success, many of them regretting they could not have buffalo meat for a regular diet. Predictions are made of a record crowd here July 4th, and everyone is coming and insists that his friends meet him here at the big free buffalo barbecue; also the races, battle royal, balloon ascension, climbing the greased pole, catching the greased pig, and to see the many other free attractions, which will help to make the day short and pleasant. We are , all going. Ixtad up mother and the kids and meet us there. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gordon left i this morning for Detroit. Mich., , where they will visit with their I daughter for an indefinite length of time..

• CLASS IN CHEMISTRY Otl« J. Brlgga, u teacher In the Decatur high school last year, has started a class in advanced chemical I analysis at 822 Calhoun street, Fort Wayne, having more than thirty students enrolled. The first lecture will be given on Friday afternoon r from 3:30 to 5:30 p. m. and there will also be another between the hours of 930 and 10:30 p. m. Lectures will ‘ also be given on each Wednesday afternoon, from 3:30 to 5 p. m. Mr. Briggs also lectures at the Ross Chiropractic college. His advanced chemi Istry class will cover a three months' . course. THE CATTLE SALE I■ — - Adams County Hereford Breeders’ Association to Sell Fifty Head of — HEREFORD CAT TL E At Bellmont Park Saturday Afternoon —Fine Chance for Farmers of County In this issue of the Democrat, The Adams County Hereford Breeders’ Association is making its final appeal to the farmers of Adams county for the big sale of Hereford cattle at Bellmont park, this city, Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock, .Some of these cattle arrived yesterday, and others are coming in today, and are filling the cattie barns at the fair grounds. While this is strictly a farmers’ sale, several Hereford breeders from Ohio and northern Indiana have written for catalogs and expect to be here Saturday for the sale. Also many Adams county farmers have promised to attend with the intention of buying cattle, if they do not (Continued on page four) BOSS OF BUDGET L Charles G. Dawes of Chicago Today Begins Duties as a Federal Director HAS IMPORTANT JOB Will Have Full Authority to Hire and Fire—Has New “Cuss Words” I By Raymond Clapper. (United Press Service) Washington, June 23 —(Special to > Daily Democrat). —Armed with a string of brand new “cuss words" Charles G. Dawes was due here today to begin driving extravagance out of . Washington. The ex-brig. Gen. is coming here to

take the job of director of the budget. Dawes is giving up a prosperous banking business in Chicago to take this task. His life here, according to all forecasts, is certain to be one long fight with bureau chiefs who want large appropriations and congressmen who want to keep their friends in easy government jobs. Dawes will be given full authority by President Harding to wield the

knife mercilessly in the hope of put ting affairs here on an economic basis. Dawes is one of a sizable group of big business men President Harding has persuaded to come to Washington at great moneytary sacrifice to assist in putting more business in govern inent. TIME IS EXTENDED Ft. Benjamin Harrison. Ind., .him ' 22.—The commanding general ha. announced that the date for tiling ot applications for admission to the citizens' military training camp at Camp Knox, Kentucky, from July 20th to August 21st has been extended and that the date of July 9th is announced as the last date on which applications received at headquarters sth Corps Area. Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, will be considered. TWO-CENT SUPPER The young people of the Presbyterian church will give a two-cent supper at the church this evening, and the patronage of the public is urged. The proceeds from the supper will be used for the young people's Winona fund. Twenty of the young people ot the congregation will leave next week for a ten days' course at Winona.

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RAINSWERE HEAVY — Country in the Vicinity of Geneva and Linn Grove Sees Great Downpour ■ WATER OVER ROADS In Many Places — Cellars Were Flooded at Bluffton —Five-inch Rainfall The country in the vicinity of Geneva, and Linn Grove was given a real rain Wednesday afternoon, and while there was no damage to speak of from the unusually hard rain which fell in torrents for an hour or two, and the accompanying wind, residents ot that section say they have a plenty for awhile. The farmers in and around Geneva had been complaining for weeks because of no rainfall, and the crops were badly in need of a good soaking. It came Wednesday afternoon and the creeks and ditches were not capable of carrying away the surplus water, and as a consequence in several places the water was a foot or more over the roadway for an hour or two. The water quickly receded, however, and crops were not damaged to any great extent. The rain was accompanied by some wind, but aside from blowing limbs from trees, and in some instances old trees were blown over, it did not do a great deal of damage. The city of Bluffton, according to reports from there today suffered a real cloudburst, it being reported that five inches of rainfall in that city filled the streets for two solid hours, the cellars in the business section of the city and a part of the residence section being flooded to a depth of two or three feet. At Middletown, and on toward Fort Wayne the rainfall was heavy during the afternoon, that locality suffering two heavy rains between the hours ot 4 and 5:30 o’clock. In this city and vicinity the rainfall was steady, but not nearly so hard as in other sections. High Water at Berne. The town of Berne also suffered from a small cloudburst Wednesday afternoon, the streets and cellars being flooded and in one or two instances families vacated their homes, fearing they would be flooded out. Cellars in the homes and business houses were flooded, as a strong wind also accompanying the rain. MYSTERY OF THE SEA i Washington, June 21. — (Special to Daily Democrat)—The fate of the “vanishing ships" today threatened to go down in history as one of the un- , explained mysteries of the sea. Officials of the department ot commerce admitted that the search for a ' twentieth century pirate, undertaken afer all other theories to explain the lisappearnnee of half dozen boats off Cane Hatteras failed, so far had proi * • duced no results. ‘ “I’ve heard many tell yarns of the > tea," said Eugene T. Chamls-rlain of ! Navigation. "But in this case the t tacts are there. The Carroll A. Deer--1 ng and the Hewitt met some strange <• fate beyond that of ordinary vessels come to grief." y Tlie Deering was the schooner that

sailed on the shoals. Abandoned apparently in qplm seas and with the ship and cargo in good condition. The Hewitt and her crew dropped completely out of sig*ht about the same time. "Os course we don’t say flatly that these ships were victims of piracy, but we have and are investigating that angle,” Chamberlain said. That American navigators are not the only ones to admit piracy as an explanation of the vanished ships [was revealed by William Lvtle, chief chrk of the bureau of navigation. "The Hewitt was Insured in London,” said Lytle. "British investigations looked into her disappearance. At first they were Jnplined to believe that the Hewitt and the Carroll A. Deering collided and that the Deering’s crew was taken aboard the Hewitt, the latter Wien sinking with all hands aboard, but an examination of the Deering's hulk revealed that no such collision bad taken place." U. S. HAS A JOB. Geneva, June 23.—(Special to Daily Democrat).—The league of nations council today entrusted the United Stattes with the task of preveninf another Balkan war. The league declined to considet ' Albania's request to fix her boundrj ; lines and compel the withdrawal o: Serbia and Greece from her territory