The Decatur Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 8

PAGE EIGHT A I Saturday Evening, November 30,1919 WILL CONTINUE TO MAKE SHIPS Two Decatur the Bridge Company and Leader Iron Works, Busy on Contracts for Some Time. Two Decatur industries which of last Sunday says of the Newark have what might be called war work likely to be busy on their contracts for some time. One is the Leader Iron Works, which has been making equipment for ships, and the other Is the Decatur Bridge which Is building standardized parts for fabricated ships. These ships are Assembled in the east, and from a made in a New York paper. It is evident that the New Jersey shipyards, where most of this goes, have work ahead for ell of 1919 and part of 1320.

E. D. Wood, formerly ol the De- ektur Bridge Is one of the foremen of the yards of the Submarine Boat Corporation, wtih yards at Newark, N. J. The New York Times yards: IN NEWARK YARDS.

"The steel shipyards of the Newark district will continue in operation next jear, and possibly into the first quarter of This assurance was given yesterday by Charles Plez, vice president and general manager of the Emergency Fleet corporation, at Philadelphia. "He asserted a the a i Boat corporation has a contract that would carry operations into the first quarter of 1920. In regard to the Federal Shipbuilding Company, he said a its contract for i ships would be completed next year, at which time it would probably receive another contract. Continuation of both yards a the part of 1920, he said, would depend i i upon the action of Congress State Meeting in Decatur Next May. MANY LAWYERS COME R.P.

Vail and H.W.Hou- sum at Chicago. Attorneys H. W. Ilojsum and Robart P. Vail were in Chicago Friday attending the meeting of the board of governors of the Illinois State Bar assoclation, which was called for the purpose of selecting the place for the annual meeting, which will bo held about May 22, 1310.

Mr. Housum and Mr. Vail represented the Decatur Bar association and they asked that the annual meeting be held in Decatur. DECATUR GETS IT. Dlxon also wanted the meeting, but is was finally decided to hold it in Decatur.

Decatur has tried for three or four years to secure this meeting. The atendance ranges from 200 to SOD. but there are over 2,000 members, and meeting held in such a central location as Decatur should bring a majority of the members here. War Drive Now on in Full Force. The campaign to put Macon over the top on its a of war savings stamps will started in earnest at At a meeting of i having the matter in charge held Friday afternoon at the post office the heads of the organization to put the campaign in Decatur and Jlacon county appointed.

IV. H. Duerr, Sylvester Judd and J. A. Zimmer will look after the city campaign and A.

M. Kenney and Frank M. Lindsay will manage the county outside of Decatur. Already a letter has been gotten out to the treasury representatives in every county school district in which they are asked to see that all pledges made on June 2S are paid. If the sciiool district has not yet raided Us quota the chairman is asked to go a that a and where the quota has been raised an increase of Son of Famous Russian Speaks at Springfield.

Superintendent J. O. Englenmn was Friday co-star as speaker at the gangsmen teachers' Institute, i Count Ilya Tolstoy. Count Tolstoy is a son of Count Leo Tolstoy. Superintendent Engleman spoke in the forenoon and Count Tolstoy in the afternoon.

The distinguished Russian was a guest of the Springfield Monday club at luncheon at the Leland hotel, where he also spoke. Mr. a had the privilege of hearing both addresses. LARGE AND BALD. Count Tolstoy is a large, rugged man, very bald, with a i of hah was clipped so close that he appeared almost totally bald.

He spoke very deliberately In excellent English, i a trace of dialect or foreign accent. He Is impressive as a speaker and he knows Russia. Mr. Engleman was impressed by the illustration he used to express tho size of Russia. You cross the United State, he said, from San Francisco to New York by fast train in.

and a half days. You cross tho Atlantic in a fast liner In about five days. You crosss England In a few hours. You cross France in a day and night. Tou cross Germany in forty-eight hours.

To cross Russia by fast express train takes fourteen days. NEED PLOWS. Russia is a country of peasants, fiom 75 tr 79 per cent of them Illiterate. What tho Russian peasant wants is not a republic or a monarchy but land, land, land. The big- i gest i that the United States could do for Russia is to send them plows.

Half of the peasants have no horses. Half of are plowing with wooden plou s. Clifford Harkness in Hospital in France. SHOCK TO PARENTS Had Just Received Letter From Son. ii bliort t.me a i a i their son, i Harkness, is i Heinz's band i in Fiance, a i a they shouldn't i always was lucky in Joe Culver of a Reaches Staten Island.

WAS WOUNDED TWICE Local Boy Tells of Thrilling Experiences. Joe Culver, another Decatur soldier, has a i at Staten Island ami hcpcs to bo home In a weeks. Mia. Frank Oren, 2124 a i street, received a letter from him Satin day morning, stating that had a In port labt Sunday a noon at 4 o'clock and on Monday was, Return to This City on Furloughs. Many Decatur soldiers aro returning home on furloughs, now that tho great need for them In France la gone.

Dozens of them came to Dc- catur for Thanksgiving and many of tbem are still here. F. Royce Is here from Camp Cuater, Battle Creek, on a five day He la an ambulance i in the U. S. medical corps at Battle Creek.

lie Is visiting his sister. Mrs. F. C. Mattson.

11C4 North College fatreet. Tat McDcrmolt Is also In Decatur on a McDcrmott has gained about i pounds slnco he has been in tho service. HE'S SERGEANT MAJOR James A. Henderson, a to Disembarkation hospital No tor tlie Universal (,, i i 1 I a Sales Corporation of this city, was in Decatur Saturday from Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C.

Henderson is a regimental sergeant major and a a to the i artillery. A. L. Brightbill, Aged 61, Expires. A.

L. Brightbill, the veteran Dec a grocer, died at the family residence, 724 West Packard street, at o'clock Saturdav morning. He fifteen per cent is asked to care for as Cl years old. He suffered a First Session Will Be Held AtY.W.CA. Miss Lilla Harkins, county agent of the Home Bureau, announces that clothing remodeling, school will open Monday afternoon at in T.

W. C. A. building, with a by Miss Wilkerson of the Uni- verijty of Illinois. This lecture Is free to all women, whether members of the Home Bureau or not.

Miss Wllkerson has had great success in other counties, and It Is hoped that a largo number of Macon county women will hear her during the coming week. Mrs. Myrtle Montgomery and Mrs. Bertha Jackman will be Dresent at these meetings, as they the textile committee from the Home Bureau. There are delegates from a goodly number of communities In the county and Decatur will be represented by a delegate from each one of the Mothers' clubs.

Delegates who take the practical work In remodeling garments are asked to rip and clean the garments at home and not In the class, as was announced. It has been found In other counties that there was not time to do all this In class. Delegates are asked to orlng patterns, scissors, tape line, thread, pins, needles, etc. MRS. M'CONNELL HERE.

Mrs. McConnell and Miss Bane of Urbana were In Decatur the first of the week assisting the board In completing the organization. There will be representatives from each township, who will be responsl to the advisor in developing the Home Bureau work in their respective communities. When the list Is completed. It will be published.

Saturday morning the committee to revise the constitution met in the Home Bureau office. This committee Is composed of Mrs. Arthur Hamilton of Illinl Township Mrs. J. D.

Watklcs of Hickory Po Township ana Mrs. A. A. Hill of 'ur. AT MT.

ZION. On Monday afternoon Miss Harkins met with the Home Bureau In Mt. Zion. at the home of Mrs. Outten.

Mrs. George Spitler presided. After a talk explaining the work of the Home Bureau, It was decided to hold monthly meetings to study foods at first and later on to take up other lines of work. It was also decided that a delegate should attend the clothing remodeling After the meeting a conference was held with the teachers from the schools. They asked that the advisor meet once a month with the Mothers' club.

A committee will determine If the two clubs can not unite. The next time the advisor Mt Zlon she will assist the teach- an In starting a hot lunch at the any deficiency in other districts. TO STIR INTEREST In the city camaplsn a i ways will be taken to i Interest in the campaign. Representatives will be appointed in the larger i i a and business units, in the factories and stores, and it Is expected that this will come through the 191S with a clean record, its quota in every line of war activities raised. As a matter of fact If all the stamps which have been pledged are actually taken and paid for during December the county will pass Its mark of 11,200,000.

Tho war savings stamps on the December basis pay per cent interest. With no taxes to pay this the highest paying form of government securities issued. Canteen at Railroad Stations Nearly Ready. Tne pebble dash coat Is today be. ing applied to the outside of the canteen hut and the 5ob will probably be today.

This practically finishes the building exvept the cleaning up. The plans aro being made for tho dedication and opening of the building next Friday evening. Dec. 6. There will be a dance in the Illinois Central station.

AT FORSYTH. On Saturday afternoon the advisor met with the women at Forsyth. DEEDS RECORDED. R. R.

to Carols E. Lon. "lot R. H. Montromery'B of Isti 1.

3. 8 ana 4. Monttome.y r.ace:-- $10.00. MEETINGS. A.

T. and A. H. SPAPEfi stroke of paralysis about ten days ago and has been at the point of death most of tho time since. Mr.

i i was in the grocery business for i years in tho i part of the city. He retired about i a years ago. He was widely known and was respected by all who knew him. MEMBER OF WOODMEN. Mr.

Brightbill was born In Pennsylvania. He was married on Feb. 23, 1SS1, to Rebecca Ja.no Boar, who died nine years ago. The Bright- bills carne to Decatur thirty years ago. He was a member of the Moose lodge and of the Modern Woodmen.

He is. survived by one daughter, Mrs. Mabol Ware of this city. A a for the funeral will be announced later. getting through all tons of hairbreadth escapes, Mr.

and Mrs. K. V. lurkness, GT'2 East Grand avenue, a letter from a Salvation captain in France to the effect tliat their son was In a serious con- Ution. The captain failed to give any ue- at all, and Mr.

and Mrs. Hark- am at a loss to know iie is ill with some disease or has been wounded In battle. The letter was written Nov. 13. It is supposed that the Salvation A captain ook It lor granted that the man's parents already of hi." illness or wound, whichever it i be, but they have had no i a i as to that LETTER FROM SOX.

The letter written by Clifford was as follows. Now perhaps I can answer these leUeis which I received on i i company. I have just from tho lines and am i i to Congratulate myself for ever getting out. Although I have had several escapes, some of them regular hairbreadth ones, like you rend about, I am still i anil kicking and ready to go back a i a i when they need me. FUNERALS.

CHARLES M. FLETCHER, Tlio a of Charles M. Fletcher hold Friday afternoon. A service a conducted nt 1'RO o'clock at llie i i Sons chapel by D. Lais- pastor of the Mt, Zion Presbyterian church which the a party i Mt.SSI011 an attended tho i a i i exer- i of the Mt.

Zlon lodge ot Odd Fellows were conducted in the cemetery i thero. There was a Inrgo attendance nt both many friends from Mt. Zlon and Dpratur being present. The music was furnished by Mrs. Hello Smith, Miss May me Falconer, Armstrong and John Pierce, Tho pallbearers were W.

R. McGauKhoy G. Cairoll Qutten, w. C. Scott, John Davidson, D.

S. McGuughcy and B. Ulery. MIS IONE CANINE. Tho funornl of Mlsa lono Canine, teacher it Uio OKlraby was hold at 7:30 o'rloclc Friday at the Mo neon WIl'-ox i a I he uero conducted by Kov.

J. W. Davidson, pastor oC tho Second Presbyterian Tho a i was i by Mlbs Atfhlson and Hutli Miilr. Tho YOUNG PEOPLE AT 1ST METHODIST The young people's department of the First Methodist church will meet for study on Sunday morning at 9:30 under the leadership of Hiss Violet Mattes. Mies Shirey of Springfield will sing.

In the evening at 6:30 the young people's meeting will be led by Miss Helen Brundage. The subject Is "Religion and Democracy In a Modern City." Each Sunday there is a. social hour from 5:30 to 6:30 when light refreshments are served and a program of music and singing given. The senior high school department, will meet Sunday morning at 9:30 for a short period of devotions, after which a new secretary will be elected. president, Bunn Guest, asks all members to come early.

In the evening at 6:30 Miss Ruth Rodgers will lead the high school meeting, with the subject, "Choosing Friends." Miss Doris Lyons will give a piano solo. BIG RUSH TO MAIL PACKAGES Saturday Lint Day to Send The canteen committee which Is stationed at the "post office In charge of sending the Christmas boxes to the men abroad In the service was rushed Saturday morning and afternoon. This being the last day for sending the packages, there were many boxes coming In for Inspection and wrapping. It is expected that by night the largest number ol any day yet i be tent out. body was taken to Kneldon.

111., Saturday mornlnc for burial, the funoral party leaving Decatur on tho Wabash at G.lo o'clock. NOLA B. WOOD. Tho funeral oC Nola E. Wood was helt at o'clock Friday afternoon.

The a i died of diptheria. the services conducted at the by Rev. K. Tho music was i by Ruth and Mlsa Hazel Collett. Many a i floral tributes were sent.

The Interment was In Fatrlawn cemetery, MRS. ALICE JAMES. The fuireral of Mrs. Alice James at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon at the family residence, 1WS North Illinois street. Tho services were conducted by Rev.

R. E. Henry, pastor ol the First Christian church. The music was furnished by Miss Agnes I HAUKNKSS. lie expected to re'main in that i a for about weeks an'l be transferred to some i i-ent hospital nearer homo.

IN DAYS. He snid a his boat a on the i Nov. 10, so It made i i in just i days. Joe was over tho top several times and was wounded twice. On 4 he shot in the back of the neck, and lie says he will have a big scar to re- nember the Fourth oC by.

That i healed and he was ,0011 back with his company. On Oct. 10 his company was ordered over the top and they or at 4 o'clock that morning. WADED ACROSS RIVER. They had to wade across a river that was up to i arm pits, and bis gas mask got wet so ho had to take It off antl a one from a dead soldier.

The advance was made the face of a gas attack. They were over the top for five days. lie got shot through the leg and that is why ha Is In tho hospital now. Ho was In hospitals in France before being placed on the boat to come home He said the statute of i never looked better to any one than ta him. LOWER PRICES FOR COAL EXPECTED Decatur Buyers Interested in Fuel Administration's Action--Decrease to Come Slowly.

Announcement by the national fuel or screenings. The present rate from Painfully Injured A the Head. Trod J. KJee, 1161 East Roger a was struck by an a i a a noon at the Intersection of Cerro and Morgan streets. He was a i about the head, but Is not to have been seriously i Moran's ambulance took him to St.

Mary's hospital. The automobile was i by Lowell E. Smith of Dalton City and struck Mr. Klee as ho was crossing the street. administration that it would practically take its hands off tho i i ous or soft coal business i i two weeks Interested Decatur buyers of coal.

Of particular Interest to heavy users of steam coal was the announcement a all price restrictions and zone hystem of distribution i be abandoned. The fact that enormous slocks 'if coal had been stored during (he summer has had a very depressing effect on the present i i situation particularly In the centers where there Is no 1 consumption and the mlnss have a heavy LOWER PRICES EXPECTED One heavy "per of steam coal f-talc-J that he liad already had offers of steam coal at considerably less a the figures and he pects to tee lower prices on coal us the result of tho i a a of ernment control which has meant practically the i i a i of compe- i i He i not look for much lower prices on domestic coal for a i as the local i are protected by the present very i i rate which Is now 5" cents a ton. a rar tax of three per cent or a i rate of practically a dollar a ton where It was once about SO ccntp, even lower a a on btcam coal Pana and mines similarly located Is cents a ton on screenings a of which are used by factories here. CAN BE SHIPPED One dealer who ships In coal rn- celved a letter Friday morning Kay- Ing that coal can now be shipped here from at least one Wg coal prod i county and It Is presumed a the rulo will apply to all If it applies to any. A i of a a has already appeared before the rate commission, or a the committee Is called i regulates tho i i i the state on coal, and has presented Dccatur's request for an i a adjustment of the coa 1 rates i are shown to he excessive for the distances hauled.

LOWER PRICKS "1 i the release of the I from control i result In a decline In prlcoc." eald a. business It Is to keep In touch i tho fuel i a i i probably come slowly and as result of competition but I looit for lower prices for a grades of coaJ anthracite." "I know the coal i a with the large producers IB decidedly easier and they are looking for business at prices a le a tile government figures," Sabe Martin and Charles Doyle Arrested. Sabe Martin, aged of 816 Xorth Edward street, and Charles Doyle, aged twenty, of 716 North Monroe street, were arrested early Saturday morning by Captain Whltten and Officers Bay and Sullivan on warrants sworn out by Deilo Wclty, charging them with highway robbery. Martin gave bond In the sum of $SOO to appear before Justice Noble at 1 o'clock Monday afternoon, Dec. 9, and Doyle expected to give bond before night.

WAS COHN siiucKian Welty is a cook, but lias been "Don't worry about a i a I shucking corn In tho country i all. His home Is in a Iml. ie told the police that Friday i 10 met Doyle in a baiber shop In the it end and a talking awhile Doyle went away, saying he was gong to a dance. A awhile Doyle time back and Martin was with him. Velty said they invited him to go vith them and have a game of poker shoot craps and ho started away vith them.

They got over onto avenue, and there ho said that Joyle poked a revolver into his side ind ordered him to throw up his hands he did and Martin searched ilm and took $50 out of his inside iret pocket Then they told him to slay he was and not to make outcry and they left. CAUGHT CULl'lUTS He was able to give such a good Inscription of the men that tho police had no trouble deciding that the hold- ips -wcio Martin and Doyle. said one of the men had boon bhot the jaw recently. Sabe Martin was shot in the Jaw liy an Illinois Central special agent who arrested Martin for robbing a box car. Martin Is on bond awaiting trial on that robbery charge.

Ho is also accused of being implicated In the theft of several quarts of whiskey from tho room of Prank fckelly, and also for stealing some auto tires, an electric fan and $3 in cush from the Burks garage on East William street. Doyla has never been In trouble here before. His Millor and Miss Gladys Phlllls. Tho flowers -were In charge of Mm. Pearl Hendrlcks, Mrs.

Wary Parkinson A. Larch and Mrs. Marie Fundy. Tho pallbearers were C. G.

Fundy. B. Dl-noy, Frank Parkinson, A. Larch, i i Scales and David Lee. CHARLES MALESKA.

The funeral ot Charlei Maleaka will be held at 2.30 o'clock Sunday afternon at St. Paul's Lutheran The services will be conducted by Rev. William Heyne. pastor oC St. Johannes' church of which Mr.

Malesko. was a member. The latter church is closed for repairs. ELBERT MATTHEWS. The body Elbert Matthews, tho Decatur Marine who died Wednesday in the naval training station at San Diego.

expected to arrive In Decatur Sunday morning, accoralnp to a mesiage received by J. J. Moran. Th funeral will be held St. Patrick's church Sunday afternoon if the body sects liera In time.

BOUGHT CHICKENS FROM LITTLE BOYS People should be careful about buy- Ing chickens from little boys. Many chickens have been stolen lately and the police have been told that boys have been selling them, and in fact traced to a few. One hen was In the pot cooking when the officer finally located It, and. aaotter one had been MlleS. penlng to me, though; I have hud so many narrow escape? that I i never eet hit.

Our band sure has horseshoes strung 1 around our neclts for luck. Yuu know, I wrote you about the band's not having to go to the lines. Well, wo did. That is, we worked just behind tho lines evacuating from th advanced dressing to the loading station. Then, once In a while, tho regimental litter bearers had more than they could handle, and they would call for volunteers to go up and help them out.

I wer.t out one morning with three others fellows and got clear into the lines. SHOT SHOULDER. "We went up through some woods to get the man but could not bring i baclt tho tame way, on account oC the trees. We had to carry out right behind the barbed wire for a distance of over K.O 1 think every sniper in tho (Jorman array took a shot at us till wn sot i shelter, but ive Rot Uii poor out. He was fchot tho shoulder and carried i about three kilos before wo eot in.

Gee! that was some awful tarry! Shells bursting all around us and tho pieces simply i around us. Then, just to bweelen the pot, gome airplanes got to i i Just over us. Wow! Machine guns spitting, bullets dropping around us. 'Norn do If that wasn't a hot place! I would have sold my life for a plugged nickel for a few minutes then. I can't tell you all about these things, but some day I will.

SAYS HE'S LUCKY. "Don't worry, for I am too lucky to get knocked off. I am coming back to tell you. all about it, and when I do I will show you a few things about the gentle art of cooking. I have learned to make a good meal out of most anything; in fact, the things I have learned are making a man out of mo.

I can speak enough of the language to ask for a place to sleep and something to eat, and that is enough to get by. I have been shot at by everything from a nine-point-two to a whizz-bang, gassed and sniped at, but I am still alive, and some day I am coming home. Boy, when I do get there I am going to loaf for a month and rest and feed up. I am propped up In bed at the hospital resting up and will go right back. I had to come ir and get the clots off of me; I had not slept In a bed for two weeka un til I came up here.

I don't know how to act without the shells. "Well, Au Revoir, "four son, "CLIFF." BORN. Born to Mr. ana Mrs. Walter Fisher 700 East Leatland avenue.

Nov. 18. a son He has- been named BObert William. Born to Mr. and Mrir.

B. J. Cattln KI23 West Eldorado street, Nov. 28 daughter. Born to Mr.

and O. K. Steele. 42 South Webrter street. Nov.

29. dtuchter To Mr. and Mrs. Joe Emltb. 1290 North Coioo Key.

SO, Idah McGone Gibson to Speak. There i ho a real showing of the of the Red Cross next Kri- day night In Decatur i a movlnpr picture 'film and an address by Idah McGono Gibson who will tell about the "Aimy or Service." The i to be shown will run about forty- five minutes. Part ol the picture was taken actual war conditions on the and other onencs were taken In this country with the assistance some of the best movie The film will be shown i cobt and there 111 be no appeal for of any kind. It Is simply an i i of what this great organization has been doing and Is still do- Ing to relief distress in all parts of thu war stricken countries. The place for the showing has not yet been decided.

1TIERS GET MMYED F. L. Evans Gets Information on Sugar Certificates. CHy Food A i i a Frank L. Evans, not a any official In- a i the I i i food ad- i i a i as to the abandonment nt Hio i a plnu, a a to Harry A.

Wheeler, food a i i a it Chicago, for I a i He got a. after noon a certificates not be re- i of dealers In I i i In the i i i of sugar In December. That means a ictailers inny get from wholej-alcMa niigar as they they need it. In i It arc supposed to hrno i i a the i Is expected to i i itself to not more than puiindr a person a TROOP NO. 4.

WINNER OF GAME Members of Troop No. 4, Boy Scouts, defeated Troop No. 3 In a football game played Saturday i at Fairvlew by a. score of 18 to IS. Tho lineups: Troop No.

1--Wheel, loft Malcnda, right end; Ilahn, a Robertson, a Creech, right guard; Reese, right tackle; left tackle; ePters, left guard. Troop No. 5--Morarlty, quarter: Chandler, right a Newlin, left halt; Mitchell, right end; Crabb, left end; Miller, center; Cowger, bails; Rlggs, left tackle; Nelson, right guard. a of the gtuno were Morarlty, a C'uwtser, Molendn, Robertson, Creech and Ilahn. Eighty-Six in in November.

44 BY I A Big Falling Off in Contagious Diseases. Then- were i d-allis in tl.o month. I Rev. J. R.

Golden Will Tell of "Dry" Meeting. A i temperance meeting will be held In the Congregational church Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, llcv. John h. Golden, D. 11-.

will i to the people of the very best hings said and done at the groat cmperancu i held In Colum- MiH, Ohio, a ago. we have a dry world as well as a dry and sober America? the i a question of the hour," bays Rev. Frank Fox. "Dr. Oolden Is well a i i to upcnk on i subject.

This Is a public meeting and everybody Is invited to attend." TOOK TOP OFF THE FOUNTAIN Friday night boys took the. top off tho i i fountain ot Water and Marietta street ami It Into the street. Some ono found It and left It at tho store on thu corner, BO there will be no los.s father, Frank Doyle, Is said to be critically 111. The police got $26 each from Martin and Dolye. Scraps of BANK CLEARINGS.

The bank clearing totals for the month ending Nov. 30 are for last month they were and for the same month last year they were TO NEW HOME. Mr. and Mrs. V7illlam Neathery, who have resided at 338 East Wood street for the past eighteen years, aro moving Dec.

1 to their new name at 331 South Webster street. NURSES SENT. Two nurses were sent to Pawnee, 111., and one to Williamsbure, Saturday by the secretary of the Social Service bureau to assist In nursing influenza cases. WILL. RECOVER.

William Freltag, who was Injured at the Jackson street school on last ftom Us Injuries "I Sliolbyvillc. Nov. G. Hernl Bojjatt, associate editor of the he byville County Leader, died at 12:05 p.m., today ot tlphold-pncumonla from whlcli lio had been suffering for several days. Dr.

Bogart was born Oct. 26, 1817, at Cincinnati, O. For twenty-five years he lived at Brookvllle, Ind. Ho married MIBB Josephine Duncan, daughter of Dr. W.

S. Duncan, at on 26, 1878. He Is survived by his wife, two sons, Guy Bogart a newspaper man ot Los Angeles, and Elbert Bogart, In tho naval aviation corps In France, and one daughter, Mrs. Idyll Burgess, who resides at Lebanon, Ind. He also leaves two brothers, Walter, of Denver, and Edgar of Cleveland, and two sisters Mrs.

Ida M. Barrow of Brook- villc, and Miss Elizabeth Bogart of Madisonvlllc, O. For several years Dr. Bogart was a teacher In the public schools of tnersviUe. He was also coroner of that county.

He was a licenced physician but did not practice his profession. He contributed articles to the medical Journals, and other publications. He moved to Shelbyville In 1916, and had been an active worker in the community. For the last.year ho had served as county tuel administrator, and had taken an active part in promoting the various Liberty loans. Dr.

Bogart was called to Bayuka, by the critical illness of Ills daughter, Mrs. Hervy Stahle who died last Thursday. He returned to hln home a week ago and on Saturday Nov. he was taken 111. For several days before his death he had been a patient at the Shelbyvtlls me- la November of actual and In addition were i deaths of in tho l)" 1 pltals here and seven d-aUi In tl" i outside the city.

Of t' i i dJth i a by pneumonia. There were more deaths i inonla than the average number ff from nil There wo ellll-btrths reported i t' onth. In October thrre were 1:. caths i wai, a record brcakci. KIGHTV-ONi; The police made ciehtv.one i i November and recovered stol'-a Only i marrlat" es Were by Tat- crj-on In Young birds the winter.

The i nnj-wcrrJ alarms In ember, 1-ut here were if US tires. CONTAGIOUS DISUAEirS. There was big falling off In of diseases, t' otal bring 171 as compared with 1 October. Of the casen reported, vcre I a mumps, diphtheria, typhoid fever, 1, and i oush, 1. I a headed tho i (tain, but the of casys Is mall compared i the t-- orted In October, when the total in- numbered 520.

There on ow i i families under nfluonza quarantine In tho city. U7U11 bldllr Oltt -Monday, Is reported to be getting m0 rial hospital. The body will alone nicely and expecteA to en- taken to Lebanon, lai, for TRKES Oil LIFE Shelbyville, Nov. 3J--William K. M-y a i farmer residing near Tower Hill shot and killed i self at o'clock Friday afternoon.

The Photlng tok place In the barn lot on his farm i members of the family were nwny from home. Only the hired girl, Miss Kuth Whiles was near the place. Mr. Evey had been suffering from melancholia following a nervous breakdown. The nervous breakdown was brought on by i i a railroad fire, on hlo property two years ago Hhe had since been cared for In several i a sanatorlums, but for the last year has been cared for at his own home.

Mr. Evey was born May 10, ISOi on the farm where ho died. At Iho age of 21 ho left the farm and went to Kansas where he took up a claim and later owned a section of lane In that state. He returned to Shclbs county twenty-three years ago, and lived at Shelby for three years be fore returning to tho homentoad where he has been living since ll.en He married Miss Martha Uurgoon thirty-four years ago and la i by four children. Winfleld.

who Is with Co. H. 130th U. S. I a In Franco, Fred, tho Grea Lakes naval training station.

Harry at home, and Mrs. Ed. Wyrlck Shelbyville. There are also two brothers hot of Monmouth. 111.

Dr. D. II. Evc who upending the winter at Long Beach, and Dr. J.

M. who Is wit a dental i In Tho tw sisters are Mrs. M. M. Dodenberge wife ot tho principal ot the Mai street school here, and Mrs.

B. Fultz of Charleston. The funera will be held at home 2:30 o'cloe Sunday Burial will in burial. NEW NYvr cases of I a are In following a i i Italli-y, U'Jj North Church. nuj-liinir, MJ3 E.T-t Ix-afland.

J. Fchudcl, 12C5 YVn-t rpcfttur. John East A caf! of diphtheria, is reported the a i of Thomas Taylor, Catt i i a fctittt, cutsldo tho city Imltf. Soldier Was Graduate of Sullivan High. Word a received Saturday by Mrs.

Lloyd Burtner, 353 North Mate itrect, a i the death of brother, Private William Frank Baker, "somewhere in France." His a wan ciiUKed liy pneumonia. Mr. Baker was i Company B. ISVth a i Gun ballallon, 3Slh division, and ti aincd at Camp Shelby, i last September, when he sailed. He was In liuplajiil for a short tlmo Utcr being moved to France.

Mr. Bakor Ifaves his mother, Mrs. Jo.sc- phlne Baker, 053 North Main thrco sisters and three brothers, who aro Mrs. W. K.

ShreWKbun? of Champaign, 111.: Mrs. E. A. Moore ot Sullivan, Mrs. Burtner of thin city.

George AV. Baker of Philadelphia. C. D. Baker, of Lincoln, and T.

Baker of Charleston. III. LIVED AT SULLIVAN'. Mr. Bakrr had made Sullivan, home for tho past ten years, and wag a graduate of the Sullivan school.

Hie many friends wHI hit loss. He was no relation to ward Baker of Decatur, irho wap kilted la Franco. NEWSPAPER!.