Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 106, Decatur, Adams County, 30 April 1907 — Page 2

The Daily Democrat. Tfl-i 1 " . 7. J— Published Every Evening, Except Sun day, by LEW G. ELLINGHAM. Subscription Rates. Per week, by carrier 10 cents Per year, by carrier $5.00 Per month. by mail 25 cents Per ytar, by mail $2.50 Single copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice in Decatur Indiana, as second class mail matter. J. H. HELLER, Manager. STILL GOING UP. Even the government, which is spending a billion dollars of the people's money a year, is forced to admit that the cost of living continues to go steadily skyward. Congress voted its members and other officials higher salaries and the state legislautre added about $350,000 to the burden of the tax-payers by making new offices and giving bigger salaries, but nothing was done by either congress or the legislature to relieve the people. A late report of the bureau of labor, which deals with wholesale prices alone, shows that 258 commodities were 36% per cent higher in 1906 than in 1897. Farm products and drugs alone showed a decrease over 1905. On the other hand, the 1906 prices increased over 1905 as follows: Cloths and clothing, 7 per cent; implements and also metals, including tools, barbed wire, copper, lead, nails, tinplate, etc., 10 per cent; lumber and building materials, 10 per cent; foodstuffs as a whole Increased 4 per cent, and the articles most in demand went much higher; house furnishing goods also showed an increase. The tables set out in the bureau s report show that the wholesale price of food was the lowest in 1896 and the highest in 1891; that of clothes and clothing, the lowest in 1897 and the highest in 1906; that of fuel and lighting. the lowest in 1894 and the highest in 1903; that of metals and implements, the lowest in 1898 and the highest in 1906; that of lumber and building materials, the lowest in 1897 and the highest in 1906; that of drugs and chemicals, the lowest in 1895 and the highest in 1900; that of house fur-

nishing goods, the lowest in 1897 and the highest in 1903, while in the miscellaneous group the lowest average was reached in 1896 and the highest in 1906. The labor bureau doeo not go deeply into the cause of the continued increase in the cost of living, but it ‘■ventures to suggest that the various internal revenue and tariff acts have in a marked degree affected prices by helping them to move upward. Speaker Joe Cannon, who stopped off in Indianapolis on his way to Washington and incidentally held a little conference with Vice President Fairbanks, afterward denied that he had agreed to deliver the vote of Illinois to the Indiana man. Indeed, he declared that the story amused him. And well it might. Such a tale as that would make Mr. Fairbanks hilarious. if true. Keep your eye on that man Johnson out in Minnesota —Governor John A. Johnson. He is growing —South Bend Times.

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UNCLE BILLIE BURDG. As much as it has pleased the Almighty God to take from us our loved one, we pay him the following tribute of love. William M. Burdg was born November 6, 1836, in Darke county, Ohio, married Milla Mathewson, November 29, 1857. To this union was born six children of which four are living. They are: Mrs. Bertha Ellis and Al. Burdg, of Decatur; Mrs. Stella Ellis, of Muncie; Mrs. William Bell, of Elwood. He, also, has a brother. Marsh Burdg, of Decatur, and a sister, Mrs. Cynthia Strate, of Harper, Kansas, who survive him, and he leaves nineteen grandchildren and one great grandchild to mourn their loss. On the 14th day of August, 1862, he enlisted in Co. 8 9th Indiana infantry. During his three years service he never missed a day off duty. He was honored by those whom he served, in that he received a promotion to serve his country in the capacity of corporal. He defended his cause in the following battles: On the 18th day of May, 1864, at Yellow Bayou, La., color sergeant Henry Myers was wounded, I when comrade Burdg took his flag and gallantly carried it till he was mustered out of the service, with his regiment. In the battles Tupelo, Miss., July 14, 1864, Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 15 and 16, 1861, and the siege and capture of Fort Blakely, Ala., April 9, 1865, and several skirmishes and long marches. As a soldier he possessed a courageous spirit and was almost faultless in performing his duties. As a father, brother, husband, grandfather and friend it must be said of him that he was one loved by all. God has said in his word that man was born but once to die, therefore we bow in obedience to his will. On the 16th day of April, 1907, our loved one *as stricken with a stroke of paralysis from which he never recovered. He exercised a patient spirit in the endurance of his suffering, but on the 24th day of April, 1907, the spirit took its flight Friday afternoon of the same week the funeral services were held at the home of his widow, and Rev. E. E. Bergman, pastor of the Decatur Baptist church officiating, as the bases for his remarks he used the words of the Psalmist: "In the morning it flourisheth, but in the evening is cut down like a flower.”

The mourners accompanied the remains of our loved one to the Decatur cemetery, bis last resting place.

MISS ELLA MILLER IS MARRIED Former Decatur Girl Wedded at Detroit, Michigan. Mrs. Lizzie Nix received word this morning from Detroit, Mich., announcing the marriage of her sister, Miss Ella Miller to Robert Kuebler, of Ann Arbor, Mich., stating the happy event took place April 3rd, at Detroit. Mich. Father Vandyke officiating. Mr. Kuebler is an expressman and is in the employ of the Pere Marquette railroad and bears the reputation of being a hustling young business man. Miss Miller is a daughter of Mrs. Jacob Miller of this city, and has a host of friends who will wish her much joy and happiness. The happy couple expect to make their future home at 263 Michigan avenue. Detroit, Mich., and will welcome any of their friends. The marriage came as a surprise to all her relatives as she had never intimated that she was about to take this step. o REFUSED MACADAM PETITIONS Commissioners in Jay County Turn Down Petitions. The commissioners of Jay county, in session at Portland Saturday, refused to grant several gravel road' petitions under the new law, for the reason that the law does not specify for the bonds which are to be issued to pay for the roads shall bear any particular interest. Without any such provision, it was held, no one would buy the bonds and the commissioners could not themselves specify what interest the bonds should bear. Section 2 of the law, however, says plainly that the bonds shall not bear over four and a half per cent interest. —Bluffton News.

QUARANTINE IS TOO SHORT Physician Says Not Care Enough is Taken in Measles Epidemic. A somewhat novel criticism has come to the city board of health from a physician who makes complaint that the board's period of isolation and quarantine for measles is not long enough, says the Indianapolis News. Fourteen days is the period of quarantine against measles. The complaint is that the duration of the disease is sometimes five or six weeks, and that I it is contagious for a longer period: than the quarantine affords Isolation. ; Dr. Eugene Buehler, secretary of the! Indianapolis board of health, says the board has had so much difficulty in obtaining the support of physicians for the enforcement of a two weeks’ quarantine for measles that it is a decided shock to hear the criticism that this period is. too short. He says that, as a matter of fact, the fourteen days’ quarantine extends over a longer period than two weeks of the contagious period of measles, as a measlesi case is seldom reported to the board of health before the fourth or fifth day of the disease. The quarantine then runs for fourteen days, so that it usually extends well into the third week of the disease. “The piincipal reason for the spread of the measles,” said Dr. Buehler, “is not in the short period covered by the quarantine, but in the absolute disregard of the quarantine by hundreds of persons who regard it as foolishness. “The problem of enforcing the measles quarantine is a big one that can not be solved, as I see it, unless we undertake hundreds of prosecutions i under the quarantine law. That would involve us in endless litigation, with' questionable benefit. The solution, in my lies with the parents. So long as they disregard the quarantine the measles will continue to spread, | until all the susceptible children in , the city have them.” , o | COMMITTEE WENT TO MARION To Inspect a Factory Proposition — 1 May Locate it Here. ( The Decatur factory committee, composed of C. J. Lutz. F. M. Schir- < meyer. L. G. Ellingham, C. D. Lewton, 1 ; C. C. Schafer and R. K. Erwin wentl i to Marion, Indiana, today to inspect 1 a factory proposition which looks | good, and which desires to locate in this city. They may bring home some good tidings. The committee are using care and judgment in the selection of industries for Decatur. * o ' THE SILVER BULLET. One of the Tragic Incidents of the American Revolution.

One of the strangest incidents of the American Revolution is the story of the silver bullet. The year was 1777. Burgoyne, pushing down from the north, was expecting to effect a junction with Sir Henry Clinton at Albany. The field of Saratoga was still before him. Clinton was pressing up the Hudson valley from New York. After taking Fort Montgomery, in the Highlands, he continued north to Aesopus, now Kingston, which was captured and burned. But first he sent from Fort Montgomery a letter to Burgoyne. As the message had to pass through the American lines, the letter was inclosed in a silver bullet, coated with lead, and the spy who carried it placed it in his pocket with a few real bullets. In Dutchess county the spy was captured. There was no evidence against him His captors seem to have been nearly convinced that he was telling a straightforward story when one of the men searching him happened on the bullets. The man noticed that one bullet was lighter than the others. “Why,” he exclaimed, “this can never be a bullet; it’s too light!” At this moment the spy snatched the ; bullet and swallowed it The incident | was promptly reported to Governor I George Clinton, commander of the Revolutionary force, and by his direction a surgeon recovered the bullet. In it was found Sir Henry Clinton's letter, which read as follows: Fort Montgomery, Oct 8, 1777. Nous void, and nothing between us at Gates. I sincerely hope thia little success of his may facilitate your operations. In answer to your letter of 28th September, by C. C., I shall only say that I cannot presume to order or even advise for reasons obvious. I heartily wish you success. Faithfully yours. HENRY CLINTON. To General Burgoyne. The spy was hanged on a tree at Hurley, a few miles from Aesopus.— Scrap Book. o DR. J. M. MILLER AT HOME. Dr. J. M. Miller is at home after a four weeks visit to Chicago, where he took a special course in one of the best schools of that city on the subjects ear. eye, nose and throat. He has resumed his practice in this city.

CARD OF THANKS. We wish to express our thanks to the kind friends and neighbors who assisted us in the sickness and death of our dear one. Mrs. William Burdg and children. o DEMORCAT Want Ada Pay Big.

Weak Women To weak and ailing women, there is at least on* way to help. But with that way, two treatment*, must bo combined. One is local, one is constitutional, but both are important, both essential. Dr. Shoop’s Night Cure is the Local. Dr. Shoop feßestoratiye, the Constitutional. The former—Dr. Shoop’s Night Cure —is a topical mucous membrane suppository remedy, while Dr. Shoop s Restorative is wholly an internal treatment. The Restorative reache* throughout the entire system, seeking the repair of all nerve, all tissue, and all blood ailments. The “Night Cure’', as its name implie*, does it* work while you sleep. It soothe* sore and inflamed mucous surfaces, heals local weaknesses and discharge*, while the Restorative, ease* nervou* excitement, gives renewed vigor and ambition, builds up wasted tissues, bringing about renewed strength, vigor, and energy. Take Dr. Shoop a Restorative—Tablets or Liquid—as a general tonic to the system. For positive local help, use as well Dr. Shoop’s Night Cure I SALT RIVER. It la a Real Stream, Although Not a Navigable One. Salt river, sacred to defeated candidates. is a real stream. While not navigable, It is used every winter as an ice harbor by the towboats which go out of Pittsburg for the south. Salt river empties into the Ohio above twenty-five miles south of Louisville. It is a small stream, which flows from the Kentucky hills to tbs great water, and is as tortuous, as crooked and as unpleasant to navigate as the miod can imagine. Yet it is navigated for a short distance from its mouth by steamers of light draft Flatboats and rafts are floated down upon its bosom. Before the civil war it was an Important stream in the matter of bringing Kentucky whisky down in the flatboats to a point where they could be unloaded to a river steamer. Refractory slaves were generally assigned to the task of bringing these boats down, as the work was arduous. Salt river became a bugaboo among the negroes, and it was from the unpleasant character of the work on this river that “a trip up Salt river” came to be used in politics to express the destination of a defeated candidate. There is not a river captain or pilot in Pittsburg who does not know Salt river, and there are few who have not sought shelter within its mouth when the ice was running cut of the Ohio. The salt name is supposed to have come from the salt springs which flow into it at its source. It is also said the name grew out of the fact that great quantities of salt produced in the Kentucky country are floated down this stream.—Fuel.

Marr’s Way. Man wants to be comfortable as a cat on a warm hearth rug; to feel no prick of conscience; to see nothing unpleasant, such as tears or a wan face, it exasperates him to madness when he is obliged to see his wife sad, but it never occurs to him to try to prevent her sadness. —Spinster in M. A. P. Some Former Meanings. “Dandelion” is dent de leon (the lion’s tooth), and “vinegar'' was once vin aigre (sour wine). "Biscuit" keeps alive the Latin bis coctus (twice cooked) and a verdict Is simply a vere dictum (true ssyina).

I GET “MORE'CORN" I ON THE SAME ACREAGE I Just drop us a postal card saying: “Send me your 32-page booklet. More Corn I on the Same Acreage, ’’ and we will mall a copy at once. In this day of M intensive farming, every corn grower wants to Increase the yield on every acre ■ as much as possible. He wants “ more corn.’’ and the booklet to which we have Sven this title contains the latest and most reliable information on corn jprovement that can be had. We have drawn from our own twenty-seven ■ years experience as planter builders and have also quoted extensively from the ■ Agricultural Colleges, which are recognized as the highest authority on the sub- ■ iect. All the points are illustrated by half tone cuts and the matter is carefully ■ arranged In addition we will send a brief description of our excellent edge ■ drop line of planters, and especially call your attention to the I NEW DEERE ,|no.9 PLANTER SI EDGE /l\ DROP 9 • with or Z I hhHbpeS’SsC without fv\\Z I Jr Fertilizer Y* I ZjF Attach-' ment No other farm machine has been IreoFn to achieve the Instantl* B **?* llf popularity accorded this planter since it was out on the market In 1901. The up- ■ to-the-times agriculturist Is quick to appreciate genuine merit in a machine* Igg hence the success of the New Deere No. 8 Planter is due to its superiority. S ACCURACY OF DROP—Means bigger crop. We prove the highest accuracy ■ attainable. No guess work with the New Deere Planter. ■ SIMPLICITY —Few parts, made strong and carefully assembled, we’ve been at ■ It twenty-seven years and know how. w ■ 'CONVENIENCE —ln a class by Itself--almost Impossible to get out of fix. S In these and many other points the New Deere is unexcelled. Plants beans, ■ peas, broom corn, and other seed, in the best laauner possible. B Schafer Hardware Company I Sole Agents I

Titon and Goliah These famous stallions will stand the season of 1907 as follows: First 3 days of the week at Preble; last three days of week at the Conrad farm near Freidheim. Terms —$15.00 to insure colt to stand and suck. 76 — August Conrad Farmers Attention Just received a load of high-grade fertilizers and in order to sell it quick I will sell it cheap. Inquire John Schinnan, at City Coal & Feed Yard. ’Phone 240. Money to loan on farms at low rate of interest. No commission. Partial payments allowed and interest stopped. DORE B. ERWIN, Tues & Fri Attorney-at-Law. EGG 3 FOR SALE—Settings from White Branmas, high scoring hens. My birds took first prizes at the De catur Poultry show. Price 75 cents per setting. Michael Miller, Monroe, R. R. No. 1. 54-*2mo. LOST —Boys’ overcoat, brown cravenette, out of the back of cart while driving around town. Please return to D. M. Heusley and receive reward. Henry Sherry, the west-end saloon keeper, handles Sherwood whiskey, the best on the market Call and see him. West Monroe street. 101-6 t For fresh home-made candies of all kinds and fruits see J. Joseph, the Monroe street candy and fruit seller. Located in the Cooper building. 101-6 t NOTICE OF ELECTION. To members of Commercial Club: Notice is hereby given that on Monday, May 6th, at 8:00 o'clock p. m., at the Commercial Club rooms in city of Decatur, Indiana, will be held the annual election of nine directors to act for the ensuing year. E. B. ADAMS, Secy. NOTICE TO BREEDERS. Smart and Rock. Smart is the Chas. Ahr Belgian stallion that Jacob Huser and William Scherer have purchased and Rock is the well known Huser horse vhich he kept at Monroe three first days In the week, and at Berne the last three days of the week. Ransom Smith has been employed to care for these horses. 98-lmo

SHOESTOR MEN .X/xR I Are good shoes. They look well and they .< wear well. They represent that rare quality of shoe excellence, style and comfort ff..?V /A united. , W V ■ § King Quality shoes interest men who are > particular about their shoes. •Every man who wears King Quality' ;-i Shoes once invariably buys them again. He knows they keep AfjR 3Hfl '* their shape longer than /Vkr\ . 55 -—" /the shoe grsfws .jfr- w other shoes. VT F Sold at // W™ "2™,- Vy WINNES' I <\ TOPPY \\ I SHOE STORE j B.o? EASON Out They Go! Mott’s the Spot! Just been named the County Seat of Hettinger County, North Dakota. This is your opportunity if you are looking for a Business Opening. Wanted at once at Mott, a 30-room Hotel, a restaurant, a bakery. Are you looking for a chance to pull down the persimmons? Come to Mott. You’ll like ths town. Uneeda town like Mott to grow up with. COMEI For facts see WM. H. BROWN CO. 205 Tacoma Bldg., Chicago, Ills., or Richardton, North Dakota, or L. E. Watson, Dist. Manager DECATUR, INDIANA 1 Am Building — IN — W SCHEIMAN’S O ADDITION One of the best new additions to the city. Some fine lots yet on sale, at very reasonalbe prices. The following properties have just been listed, by the Snow Agcncj, ar. are a fine bunch of bargains. Call or write for our large list of farms and other city property. No charge for advertising property if left »n the market for the time hste . Snow Agency. Phone 230. Decaturlnd.

1625—1 s a five room cottage on a public street, near the traction line in north Decatur. Has stable, coal house, city and cistern water. SBOO.OO.

2 614 —Is a neat six room story and a half residence on Harrison street in Geneva, stone walks, good garden, cistern, nice shade trees, etc. $850.00. 3 617 —Is a convenient five room cottage and grounds consisting of about four and a half lots, near Grant street. On water line, near electric arc light. Stable 16x32 feet, wagon shed, etc., cistern, chicken park, fruit trees, etc. $1200.00. 4 604 —Is a five room cottage on public street Has good stable, cellar, drove well and cistern. Plenty of fruit and property in good location. $1250. 5 615—1 san eight room story and a half residence on sth street, city and cistern water, nice front porch, bay window, maple shade, brick walks, good location. $1350.00. 6 611 —Is a seven room story and a half residence, with cellar, stable, cistern, brick walks, maple shade, is near central Decatur on the stoned street. Good property at the price. $1350.00. 7 608 —Is a convenient seven room story and a half residence on a good street tn northwest Decatur. Corner lot 63x145 feet, cement walks, stabie, cistern, drove well, fruit, etc. $1400.00. 8 627 —Is a well built story and a half residence on Jefferson street Cellar, cistern, drove well, plenty of fruit, cement and brick walks natural wood finish, modern in construction $2200.00. 9 612 —Is a substantial seven room house on Adams street near 4th street, ong lot, large stable for five horses, irove well, cistern, summer kitchen. ;tc. About four squares from court louse. $2500.00. 10 607 —Is a modern and convenient wo story residence of ten rooms ibout four or five squares from the :ourt house, on good street. Electric lights, gas, city and cistern water, quartered oak finishings. $2650.00.

11 629 —Is one of the best located brick business buildings in the city. Is over twenty-four feet wide, on traction line, near the court house. W ill be sold for what it is really worth on easy payments, if bought soon.

12 623 and 628—Are two good and modern five room residences, natural wood finish, that are offered for sale without the lots on which the/ stand. These houses could not be built for near the money that we can sell them for if sold soon. 13 _We also have five other properties—6o6. 590. 532, 631 and 619, that are very desirable residences, two on solid stone foundations for $2000.00 and $2200.00, three on bncK streets, one $2000.00, two two-stones, tolerably modern, at $2800.00 each. 14 630—1 s a well built five room esidence in northwest Decatur, on a good street and well located. Natural wood finish, modern windows, kitchen, good garden, maple shade, brick walks etc. $950.00. 15 588—Is a three-qaurter acre tract with good new six room house, summer kitchen, chicken house cement fifty-barrel cistern, and on stoned road near Decatur. slooo.w. 15 626 —Is a well located one-acre tract on the stoned road near Discomfortable four room house, stable, chicken house, park, etc., some n fruit trees, dug well, cistern, nau shade trees, etc. $900.00. 17 622—1 s about an acre and a haff of the finest kind of black land on the stoned road near Decatur. A able six room house, drove wel, - tern, good chicken house and sne stable. Plenty of fine b , a ""n 0 trees. Price, if sold soon, $1250.00. 18 613—1 s a well located 30 acre tract of black sand loam land, proposed stone road. Is near schoo. and not far from railroad and market] Has about 280 rods of *- u « “ d fenced, springs on the land. Is $73.00 an acre. 19 609—1 san inexpensive 60-ac tract of black and yel>° w along the St. Mary’s river about th miles from Decatur. Is on a g public road, the l° cat « d . s i ed timand proposed traction line. - ber. inexpensive buildings, $62.00 acre.