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UNIONDALE TO HAVE GLORIOUS FOURTH
Greatest Wartime Celebration of Years Is Planned by Soldiers and Citizens
MANY MILITARY FEATURES

Uniondale is to have the greatest celebration of Independence day in its history. Plenty of wartime spirit and enthusiasm will mark the observance of the glorious Fourth next Tuesday. The plans have been perfected under the auspices and direction of the liberty guards, Captain Stanley Allen, commanding, and the latter will be the officer of the day for all the military ceremonies planned for that occasion. The program arranged constitutes an all day affair from reveille and sunrise gun to the sounding of retreat and the lowering of the colors at 6 p. m. One of the features will be a barbecue, with a thousand pound steer to be offered up as a sacrifice to hungry soldiers and the hundreds of guests whose attendance is confidently anticipated.

A Patriotic Program

The Uniondale program for July 4 is as follows:
- Reveille
- Sunrise gun and raising the colors
- Fatigue call for the Uniondale home guards at 9:00 a. m.
- Inspection and guard mount for all the companies present at 10:00 a. m. Lieut. of the guard, F. J. Tauzeman (?)
- Company drill at 11:00 a. m. for all the liberty guards.
- Mess call, 12:00.
- Patriotic program at 12:45 p. m.
- "America," sung by the whole audience with the assistance of the community chorus and led by E. H. Roe, director, and accompanied by the Wells county war band.
- Pledging allegiance to the flag by the boy and girl scouts.
- Reading of the Declaration of Independence by Judge C. E. Sturgis, chairman of the county council of defense.
- Song by the Liberty Center male chorus.
- Short speeches by Frank Gordon and A. W. Hamilton.
- Selection by the Wells county war band.
- Patriotic pageant entitled, "In the Cause of Freedom," in which all the nations of the earth will be represented. This will be given by almost two hundred people under the direction of Mrs. William Meeks, and Mrs. Lee Ormsby.
- Principal address will be given by Dr. Milton T. McCarty, of Frankfort, Indiana.
- All patriotic songs and new war songs will be sung
- Drill to be given by the young ladies of the St. Paul church.
- Song by the Ossian girls' chorus.
- Short speeches will be given by four minute men who will represent each home guard company.
- Battalion drill will be given at four p. m. commanded by Colonel W. L. Kiser and Adjutant Leo J. Martz and Ralph Thomas, sergeant major.
- Dress parade at 5:00 p. m. All patriotic organizations, such as mothers with sons in the service, Red Cross chapters and liberty guards will pass in review.
- Guard companies represented will be from Markle, Bluffton, Keystone, Ossian and Uniondale.
- Civil war and Spanish-American war veterans will be on the reviewing line with the commanding officers.
- Dinner will be served free to all civil and Spanish-American war veterans of Wells county, the war band and liberty guards. All liberty guards will furnish their mess kits.
- Sunset, gun and lowering of the colors at 6:00 p. m.
- Welcome address to be given by Dr. B. W. Harris, first lieutenant of the medical reserve.
- The committee has procured a grove which will be a good place to hold a basket dinner and the program will be interesting and full of beneficial things to see and hear. There will be plenty of good water, and refreshments. Lunch will be served on the grouds (sic).
CAPTAIN STANLEY ALLEN, Officer of the Day


PAINT HOUSE YELLOW.

BLUFFTON, Ind., June 29. -- When day dawned this morning it looked upon a set of yellow-streaked buildings on the George Essner farm, east of Tocsin, in Lancaster township, this county. Streaks of yellow paint adorned the house, barn, garage and every other building on the farm, and the fence also was painted yellow in front of the house, and yellow paint adorned the large windows of the house. Essner is a wealthy farmer and had bought so sparingly of W. S. S. stamps that some of the people of his community proclaimed him a slacker, and this word in yellow as among the new ornaments on his barn this morning.


Wells county REACHES WAR SAVINGS QUOTA
Has Undoubtedly Gone Above Assigned Goal; News of Bluffton

BLUFFTON, Ind., June 29. -- Wells county early to-day, following reports from meetings held in every district in the county last night, was reported safely "over the top" for its full quota of war savings stamps. Figures compiled this evening by County Chairman O. E. Lesh showed that the county as a whole will be at least $10,000 above its quota of $448,000. To the city of Bluffton was assigned the task of raising $100,000 of the total and the city by strenuous efforts reached a $101,000 total. Six out of nine townships also over-subscribed, making up a with a surplus shortages in Lancaster, Chester and Jackson townships. This county was the first in the Eighth district to report her full quota of stamps pledged and was one of the first nine counties in the state to "go over the top." Assisting County Chairman Lesh were Campaign Manager J. F. Decker, City Chairman J. F. Hartle and committees in eleven city districts and in every school district in the county.

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Dwight Maddux, a local machinist, is home from Detroit, to recuperate from an attack of poisoning. He has been employed as a tester of liberty motors at the Packard plant and with eleven other testers employed on government orders developed poisoning after eating a lunch bought from a stranger at the noon hour, it having been the custom to buy lunches from stands near the grounds. It is now believed the workmen were made sick to delay work on the government orders. Their employers gave orders that the workmen are not to buy lunches in that way in the future.

Cassius Graham, aged five years, a son of Charles Graham, a blacksmith while playing with an ax, accidentally cut off one of his toes.

Licenses were issued here to-day for three weddings. Two weddings were performed this afternoon by Rev. W. T. Arnold at the Methodist parsonage. The first was that of Harry Courtney, son of Monroe Courtney, of Keystone, and Miss Gondal Mowrey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mowrey, also of Keystone. The groom is a farmer, and the young couple will reside on a farm near that place. The second wedding was that of Ralph Perry, son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Perry, of Chester township, and Miss Alice Ann McIntire, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William E. McIntire, of Jackson township. They will reside on a farm in Chester township. The third license was procured by Ralph Lugar Leas, farmer, a son of William F. Leas, and Ruey Glee Slusher, a daughter of William C. Slusher.

Levi Heller, aged 75, to-day filed suit for divorce from Matilda Heller, alleging cruel treatment. He alleges that he has been a dutiful husband, but the defendant falsely accused him of intimacy with other women. He recites that he has learned that he is the fifth husband of the defendant, and that two of her former husbands secured divorces. Among other things he says she constantly nagged at him to move with her to her former home in Parker, Ind., although she had agreed to come here to live when she married him.