Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 98, Decatur, Adams County, 20 April 1907 — Page 4

I MIS Accurttt /’’■lce* paid by Decatur mtrchant* for various products. Cor ractstf every day at 2 o’clock. BUFFALO STOCK MARKET. EAST BUFFALO, N. Y„ April 20.— Receipts, cattle 2 cars; market steady. Prime steers @56.00 Medium steers @55.50 Stockers to best feeders.., @54.00 Cows @54.50 Receipts hogs, 30 cars; market steady. Mediums and heavies.... @57.00 Yorkers @57.00 Pigs @57.05 Receipts, sheep, 40 cars; market steady. Best spring lambs @59.00 Wether sheep @57.00 Mixed sheep @56.25 Culls, clipped @55.00 CHICAGO MARKETS. Chicago markets closed today at 1:15 p. m., according to the Decatur Stock & Grain Exchange. May wheat 78% July wheat 81% May corn 48 July corn 48% May oats 44% July oats 41% May pork $15.82 July pork ; $15.95 PITTSBURG MARKETS. Union stock yards, Pittsburg, Pa,

April 20.—Hog supply. 10 cars; mar- ' Set steady. Heavies @57.00 ■ Mediums @57.00 Yorkers @57.00 ; Light @57.05 Pigs @s7 00 t TOLEDO MARKETS. Changed every day at 3 o'clock by ■ J. D. Hale. Decatur special wire 1 service. _ ' Wheat, cash 79% May wheat 80% July wheat .; 82% May oats 48% July oats 49% May oats 44% Rye 69 J STOCK. By Fred Schelman Lambs, per cwt $5.00©56 00 c Cattle, per cwt. $2.50 @53.50 , Calves, per cwt [email protected] , Cows, per cwt [email protected] , Sheep. per cwt [email protected] A Hogs, per cwt @56.00 < COAL— PER TON. Hocking lump $4.25 , Virginia Splint 4.50 ; Domestic Nut 4.00 ( Washed Nut 4.50 , Pittsburg lump 4-09 j Pocahontas 4.75 Kentucky Cannell 6.00 Anthracite 7.50 Charges for carrying coal —25c per ’ ton or fraction thereof; upstairs, 50 cents per ton. . OTHER PRODUCTS. By Various Grocers and Merchants Eggs, per dozen 13c Butter, per pound 18c * Potatoes &0c I Ijtnl 9c GRAIN. By G. T. BURK, successor to Carroll Elevaor company. Big 4 White Seed eats for sale or exchange to farmers. Wheat, No. 2, red $ 71 Wheat. No. 3, red 70 Oats, No. 3, white 36 Barley 39 Rye, No. 2 55 Clover seed 8.00 Alsyke 6.50 Timothv seed 200 No. 1 Timothy hay, baled 13.50 No. 1 Clover hay, baled 11.00 No. 2 Mixed hay, baled 12.00 No. 1 Clover hay, baled 12.00 Corn 58 Corn, white, per cwt 43c@51c Machine husked corn, one cent less. o [ JACKSON HILL COAL. By George Tricker. (Wholesale.) Al or 2 Jackson Hill lump, f. o. b mine, $2.50, f. o. b. Decatur, $3.70; cook stov«* nut, f. o. b. Decatur, $3.70; Hocking lump, $1175, f. o. b. mine; Hocking lump, $.3.06,. t o. b. Decatur; Splint lump, $1.55 t o. b. mine; •phut lump, $3.10, t. o. b. Decatur.

MARKET NOTES. Corn—% cent lower. Receipts at Chicago today: Hogs 20,000 Wheat 28 cars

Corn 177 cars Oats 181 cars Cattle 20.000 Sheep 30.000 Estimate for tomorrow: Hogs 25.000 Oats 34 cars Wheat 238 cars Corn 221 cars WHEAT, FLOUR, ETC. The Oak Roller Mills quotation Oak Patent flour 33.60© 34.00 Bran, per ton *20.00 Middlings, per ton 20 00 •tough meat, per cwt 100 Kiln dried meal, par cwt.... .. 150 Screenings, No. 1, net bu 60 Screenings, No. 2, per bu. 40 Cop feed, per ton 20.00 Wb<*»t, No. 2, per bushel 71 WOOL AND HIDES. By B. Kalver & So* 'Phone 442. Wo® l 23c@ .26 Beef hides g c Calf hides, 8© 15 lbs. ©loc Muskrat &c@ .30 Sheep putts 250<»1.bC Tallow

PETITION FOR STONE ROAD. 1 State of Indiana. County of Adams, ss. Before the Board of Commissioners of the county of Adams. March Term, 1907. We, the undersigned, each and all of whom are resident free holders and voters of and in the township of Monroe, in the county of Adams, in the state of Indiana, do hereby respectfully petition your honorable body that you proceed to have a free macadamized stone road constructed and completed in said Monroe township over and upon the public highway situated on the following route to-wit: Commencing at the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of section 24, hi Monroe township, running thence west on the half section line through section 23 and section 22. to the south-west corner of the northwest quarter of section 22, and there to terminate the same being two (2) miles in length connecting the Pleasant Valley and Oak Grove macadam road with the Monroe Township Central Macadam Road. We ask that you take such action on this petition as you are authorized to by virtue of act of the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, approved March Bth, 1905, and any amendments thereto. And we recommend that said highway be forty (40) feet in width, and that it be Improved by making thereon what is known as a double track, and that one track be macadamized by placing thereon crushed stone, with screenings on top. to such width and depth as the viewers may deem best; that a United States mail route nowpasses over said road and We further ask that said improvement be paid for by bonds issued by said county of Adams, payable in twenty semi-annual installments for the payment of which bonds, we ask that there be a tax levied upon the taxable property of said Monroe township and the town of Berne in a sufficient amount to pay the interest and principle of said bonds as the same shall become due and payable under and according to the provisions of said act of the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, approved March Bth. 1905, and any and all amendments thereto.

The improvement herein prayed fori to be known as an extension of the I Pleasant Valley and Oak Grove macad am road, the said Pleasant Valley and Oak Grove macadam rpad being a road petition and voted on under an act of the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, approved March 3rd. 1893. and the amendments thereto, , and constructed pursuant thereto. Nicholas Rich. Andrew J. Muser. Ben Habbegger. Albert Meyer. David N. Sprunger. Emil Flickinger. David O. , Lehman. Jacob Baker. J. B. Dull, A. B. Dougherty. J. A. Habegger. R. G. , Link, W. M. Clymer, Jacob Musser. , John J. Soldner. David Sprunger. , Simon Gilliom. Emanuel Lehman. Wm. j Reusser. Noah O. Baumgartner, J. F. , Lehman. A. Sprunger. Ed Luginbill. , Noah Wulliman. Paul Felber, D. S. , Wittwer, David P. Somer, Wm. Miller, Chas. Lehman. D. N. Stauffer, Dr. E Franz. J. W. Craig. J. C. Schug. Jacob , Egly, Amos Ellenberger, D. L. Shalley. W Wittwer. C. A. Augspurger. Ferd Ryf, Chr. Deusser. L. A. Sprunger. , George M. Hedington. M. Burkhulter, . E. A. Luginbill. W. Baumgartner. A. E. Mischand. Benj. Sprunger. John . Rohrer. T. Mischand. Sam Simison, Jeff Lilchty, A. A. Sprunger, E. D. Engeler. E. M. Ray, C. L. Simkins. Frd Rohrer, Amos Hirschy. Bert Parr, Benj. Nussbaum. D. C. Lehman. S. Sprunger. Abe Beer. Jacob Huser. W. T. Waggoner. S. F. Lehman. W. P. Hendricks. This petition will be presented to I the Board of Commissioners on Monday. May 6. 1907. lat which time any taxpayer of Monroe may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. 7-3 t. C. D. LEWTON, Auditor. NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS. The State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss: In the Adams Circuit Court. April Term. 1907. No. 7369. Daniel I. Weikle vs. Martha C. Lynch. Suit on street assessment lien. It appearing from affidavit filed in i the above entitled cause, that Martha C. Lynch, the above named defendant ; is a non-resident of the State of In-1 diana. Notice is therefore hereby given the said Martha C. Lynch, that she be and appear before the Hon. Judge of the Adams Circuit Court on the Bth day of June. 1907. the same being the 54th Juridical Day of the present term, to be holden at the Court House in the

City of Decatur, commencing on MonI dav. the Btii day of April, A. D. 1907, and plead by answer or demur to said complaint, or the same will be heard and determined in her absence. Witness my name, and the Seal of said Court hereto affixed, this 16th dav of April, 1907. DAVID GERBER. Clerk. By PAUL AUMGARTNER. Deputy. A P. Beatty, Attorney for plaintiff. [Seal.] 7-3 t *• sj NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS. s 1 ) The State of Indiana. County of ) Adams, ss: In the Adams Circuit Court, April ) Term, 1907. No. 7370. Daniel I. Wei- ; i kle vs. Allen T. Lynch. Suit on ;' Street Assessment Lien. s' It appearing from affidavit filed in the above entitled cause, that Allen T. Lynch, the above named defendant is a non-resident of the State of Indiana. I Notice is therefore hereby given I, the said Allen T.Lynch that he be and II appear before the Hon. Judge of the 1 Adams Circuit Conn on the Bth day I‘of June. 1907. the same being the I Juridical Day of the present term, to I' be holden at the Court House in the ( City of Decatur, commencing on Monday, the Btb day of April, 1907. and , plead by answer or demur to said complaint, or the same will be heard and determined in his absence. Witness, my name, and the Seal of , said Court hereto affixed, this 16th ’ day of April, 1907. 1 , DAVID CERBER, Clerk. By PAUL BAUMGARTNER. Deputy. - ■ A. P. Beatty. Attorney for plaintiff. •I [Seal.] 7-3 t b' *- ■»■■ I■■ <• '—l— II

PETITION FOR STONE ROAD. State of Indiana. County of Adams, ss. Before the Board of Commissioners of the county of Adams, March Term, 1907. We, the undersigned, each and all of whom are resident freeholders and voters of and in Monroe township in the county of Adams, and state of ludiana.do hereby respectfully petition your honorable body that you proceed to have a free macadamized stone road constructed and completed in said Monroe township over and upon the public highway situated on the following route, to-wit: Commencing at the south-west corner of section seventeen (17) township twenty-seven (27) north range fourteen (14) east in Adams county, Indiana, running thence east over and upon the highway between sections seventeen (17) and twenty (20) and sections sixteen (16) and twenty-one (21) and terminates at the north-east corner of section twenty-one (21) township and range aforesaid, that the improvement thus prayed for is less than three (3) miles in length and connects at both ends with a free macadam road both of which roads had been voted upon by the voters of said Monroe township and said roads were constructed under the laws of the state of Indiana, providing for the construction of free gravel or macadam roads. Your petitioners ask your honorable body that said highway above described be graded and that broken stone be placed upon the grade and that upon such broken stone there be placed stone screenings. Your petitioners further show that the highway thus sought to be improved is a public highway already established and is one of the public highways of said Monroe township. Your petitioners further ask that said road as above described be graded to a width of twenty-four (24) feet,and that broken stone be placed thereon to a width of ten (10) feet and to a depth of eight (8) inches at the sides thereof and to a depth of ten(lo(inches in the center thereof, and that crushed stone screenings be placed thereon to a depth of three (3) inches upon said broken stone, that said road be constructed as a double track, that the name of said road shall be Monroe Township Extension No. 6. We ask that said improvement be paid for by bonds issued by the county of Adams, in the state of Indiana, payable in twenty semi-annual installments or series, and for the payment of which we ask. that a tax be levied upon the taxable property of said Monroe township and the towns of Berne, and Monroe situated therein in Adams county, Indiana, in a sufficient amount to pay the interest and principal of said bonds as they become due. that said road be built and that said bonds be issued and said tax be levied upon said property of said township in accordance with the Acts of the Legislature of the state of Indiana now in force and passed in the year 1905, and as amended in the Acts of the General Assembly of the state of Indiana for the year 1907. We further ask that the Board take the different steps as required by law to have said improvement constructed and made as petitioned herein and that they construct the same under the laws of the state of Indiana now in force providing for the extension of free gravel or macadam roads. 'C. C. Beer, Paul Girod. Robt. Schmit, Amos Ellenberger. Noah Ellenberger. Fred Neaderhouser. C. E. Stuckey, J. W. Hare. H. H. Stuckey, Emil Juilberat. C. G. Egly, John M. Amstutz. Peter Soldner. Gideon Reisen, Wm. Baumgartner. Dr. R. Sprunger. Amos, Hirschy. J. D. Winteregg, C. C. Yoder, Jerrv Liechty. Dennis Striker. Ed Luri"ti’l W-n. M’llt. H S Mischand. John Wittmer. Abe Beer, Louis A. Brounner. Emile Brunner, Jacob Huser. Mathias Striker. Burkhart Lehman. M. Jacobs. A. J. Liechty. Fred Braun. J. J. Lllchty, Christ Iniger. Jacob Raichert. Peter Steiner. Silas Sprunger. Peter F. Graber, Magdalena Zurcher, Peter Inuger. Peter J. Moser. Jacob Graber. Jacob Schwartz, John McCarthy. Sylvester Johnson. Rudolph Schug, D. D. Shalley. Levi Moser. Peter Nusbaum.John Nusbaum. Emanuel Sprunger. Christian Hilty, Chris Stengel, Amos Reusser, J. O. Schug. Edwin Lehman. C. C. Schug. Albert Stauffer, Sam Johnson. John F. Mazelln, Daniel Mazelin, John J. I Schwartz, Jacob Musser, William Nussbaum. John J. Soldner, Peter F. ; Mazelin. David F. Mazelin. Peter H. 1 Habeggar. Christ Christener. R. E. Smith. William Sherer. Jacob J. Roth. J. E. Johnson, Jacob J. Schwartz. Eli Beer, Victoria Graber. David D. Winteregg. Deniel H. Habegger. James K. Martz. Jacob Scherer. Albert Meyer. Joseph Rich, Ira Wagoner, David Biberstine, Wm. F. Schug. This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday, May 6, 1907, at which time any taxpayer of Monroe township may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. 2-3 t. C. D. LEWTON, Auditor. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE. I Notice is hereby given to the credI Itors. heirs and legatees of Mary ■ Braun, deceased, to appear in the i Adams Circuit Court, held at Decatur, Indiana, on the 11th day of May, 1907, and show cause, if any, why the final i settlement accounts with the estate : of said decedent should not be ap- ■ proved: and said heirs are notified to then and there make proof of heirship. and receive their distributive shares. JOHN W. COFFEE, Administrator. Decatur. Ind.. April 15, 1907. J. T. Merryman. J. C. Sutton, Attys. FOR SALE —I have some extra fine registered male pigs for sale at very low prices. Guaranteed to be good breeders. At present they weigh from 100 to 125 lbs. Registration go with sale. Those desiring a good male hog. should see mine before buying. D. E. Studabaker, R. F. D, No, t 9, Recatur, Indiana. ,

SPECIAL EXCURSION RATES via CLOVER LEAF ROUTE. i ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Meeting American Medical Association. Tickets on sale May 31st to June 3rd. CHAUTAUQUA LAKE, N. Y. Special excursions, July 5 and 26. NORFOLK, VA. Jamestown Exposition. Very low rates. Tickets on sale. April 19th to Nov. 30th. PHILADELPHIA, PA. B. P. O. E. Tickets on sale July 12, 13 and 14. SARATOGA SPRINGS. N. Y. Triennial Conclave K. T. Tickets on sale July 5, 6 and 7. SEATTLE, WASH. I. O. G. T. AND CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR Tickets on sale June 19th to July 12th. SPOKANE. WASH. BAPTIST YOUNG PEOPLES' UNION. Tickets on sale, June 19th to July 12th. LOS ANGELES. CAL. Mystic Shrine, German Baptist, and National Eclectic Medical Association. Tickets on sale April 27th to May 18th. SUMMER TOURIST RATES to all the popular resorts: tickets on sale June Ist. For rates apply to nearest Clover Leaf Agent or address W. L. ROSS. Genral Passenger Agent, Toledo, Ohio. o — See Lettie Kintz for all kinds of Art needlework, material, teaching, etc. Lessons Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, frbm 1 to 4. Madison street. 84-ts.

HINDRANG German coach stallion of the finest type, seal black good bone and muscle, weight 1400 pounds. Will make the season of 1907, at the Hoosier barn North Second street, Decatur, Ind. See him. Your patronage solicited. JESSE BUTLER • Owner Important Notice to Taxpayer*. May 6, 1907, is the last day for paying the spring installment of taxes. Unless paid at said date a penalty of 10 per cent will be added, according to instructions from the state auditor, I am compelled to obey the law to the letter. It Is impossible for me to grant any favors. I trust all taxpayers will remember this and settle on or before May 6, and avoid paying penalty. Yours very truly, J. F. LACHOT, 86-lmo. Treasurer. o CEMENT WORK GUARANTEED.

We are ready to take contracts for all kinds of cement work, such as concrete foundations, sidewalks, cellar floors, etc. Where we furnish the material. we guarantee the work. Send us your orders, or call us by phone. No. 556. BUTLER & BUTLER, 71-*tf Decanr, Ind. The Price of Health. “The price of health in a malarious district is just 25 cents; the cost of a box of Dr. King’s New Life Pills,'' writes Ella Slayton of Noland. Ark. New Life Piils cleanse gently and impart new life and vigor to the system. 25c. Satisfaction guaranteed at Blackburn Pharmacy. Money to loan at lowest rates of interest on real estate securities. Abstracts furnished. Schurger & Smith, attorneys-at-law. 76-lmo I have any amount of money to loan on farms. Harvey Harruff, Decatur, Ind. S6-18t. FOR SALE —Good Domestic sewing machine, book case and baby cab. Inquire at Democrat office. 93 FOR SALE —Two Tennessee Jacks, one 14 and other 15 hands high. For sale at the right price. Robert Hanlin, R. F. D. 2, Ft. Recovery, O. 75 — “Preventics" will promptly check a cold or the grip when taken early or at the “sneeze stage." “Preventics” are little candy cold cure tablets, and Dr. Shoop. Racine, Wis., will gladly mail you samples and a book on colds free, if you will write him. The samples prove their merit. Check early colds with Prevetics and stop pneumonia. Sold in 5c and 25 c boxes by W. H. NACHTRIEB.

CALL ON City Trucking Co. SIOBAHt. IRUCKII6. lit. Work a Specialtv Phone 412 CHAS. MILLER HOLLIS'! Er Rocky lountaio Tea Na&gefi A Biay * o.sy Brtiwz Goxlen Heart* Renewed VKor. A eveciflo tor Cjnstlpetion. Indigestion. Liv» end Kidney •’nobles. Pimplee. Ec k Impure Blood. Bad Bnwuh. Sintnrtsh Bow Jaaoaoae and Backache. Its Rooky Mountain .ea In tab let form. 85 cents a box. Genuine maae t» Hollistto P’.ru Compant. Madison, Wla BOLDER FTB for SALLOW PEOPL FARMS Bought Sold and Exchanged CAT.T, OR WRITE O. GANDY <a CO. 205 West Berry St. FT. WAYNE, IND. Eye Ear Nose Threat Glasses Fitted also special treatmen for Diseases. Lungs Kidneys, Stomach and Rheumatism. Cancer treat ed. J, N. Younkin D 0. M D TOCSIN. IND. AUCTIONEER HARRY DANIELS Decatur, Indiana. R. R. 8 LIVE SlO K AND HKM SALE AUCIIONLLRING, A SPECIFY Year Busints toiicura fail ’Phont No. ISE Line (kcatur 29** P. J. HYLAND. SANITARY PLUMBINO Sleim ** p Hot Water Haotins •o mo wmw cin'iR t ' 23 Hotaroe St Ottonr 35 F Zlw\ /HARPER \ WHISKEYI \ for Gentlemen I \ who cherish / X Quality. /

For Sale By IOS. TONELLIER IOS. B. KNAPKE [goal Feed and Seeds Peninsular Portland Cement Gypsum Bock WaT Plaster We make a specialty of furnishing HIGH GRADE CLEAN 1 COAL that will buns. J. D. HALT Phon* B Cor. Jefferson and fnd Sts ’ Bicyclesßepaired And Tires in stock. Guns Repaired Lawn Mowers Ground. Baby Buggy Tires in stock and put on. Orders taken for Rubber Stamps of all kinds. Saws fitted at F. E. SMITH 131 South Second St. DEC A TUR

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Farmers! Attention! JP . .... ... „ , Stop and think! Be honest with yourself. You will have to say J. N. can get you just as much for your property as anybody. Thanking you for your past patronage for the last five years, I still remain, Yours for a successful sale. J. N. BURKHEAD Monroe, Ind. Phone Call Central at Monroe for my residence. CHEAP EXCURSIONS. Via Erie R. R. to points in the west and southwest. On the first and third Tuesday of each month, we will have on sale, both one way and round trip tickets at exceedingly low rates. Call on Erie agents for particulars, or write O. L. ENOS, Traveling Passenger Agent, Marion, Ohio. GOING TO PAPER THIS SPRING? John W. Edwards wants to do youspring paper hanging, house and sign painting. Cal] him If you need any thing in his line. 73-»lmo

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