Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 7 January 1908 — Page 2

The Daily Democrat. Published Every Evening, Except Sunday, by LEW G. ELLINGHAM. Subscription Rates: Per week, by carrier 10 cents Per year, by carrier $5.00 Per month, by mail 25 cents Pes year, by mail $2.50 Single copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Ebtered at the postofflce ik Decatur Indiana, as second class mail matter. J. H. HELLER, Manager. ■ —» .11 I « Congressman Adair has returned to Washington in time to be present at the opening of congress. He proposes ; that illness shall be the only excuse for missing any session of the lower house. He is already attaining a great record as a legislator for the soldier, and in other ways is making an ideal congressman. Last month he ■ received and answered something like j thirty-five hundred letters, so it would seem his life is anything but idle. He is making a record and greatly pleasing his constituents, irrespective of party affiliations. It is a matter of common comment ■ that the Indianapolis News is lowering its once high standard as a newspaper. It's recent engagements in associating the liquor element of the state in controlling the Democratic organization was so overdone and extravagant in its evil intents, that people of all j political shades were sickened and disgusted. A newspaper that will lie about one thing will lie about another. . ii m i i 'iijir.. i The Adams county poultry show is on for the season of 1908, and like all | farm stock shows in this grand old county is a hummer. No better class of farmers can be found in this part ■ of civilization than those who live, about and help to make Decatur the best town on earth —in good and bad times. The managers of the poultry show are enterprising and deserve the greatest success in their show. Judge Merryman's opinion in refusing a ’lvorce recently should have been heard by every man and woman in the county. Divorces are entirely too common, the marriage vow too lightly considered and the learned jurist expressed his thoughts in a manner so earnest and so penetrating that it made all think seriously who heard him. Now comes the word that Congressman Cromer has a better organization in Delaware county than ever before. His friends in the district are not THC PICTORIUM TONIGHT Wrecking of Limited Express. The Tenderfoot. SONG. “Bright Eyes Goodbye.” Open every afternoon and evening this week. J. B. STONEBURNER, Prop.

F? übber Boots We have the best Rubber Boots that have been sold in the city of Decatur for a long time. Come in and see them and let us tell you how we get them. J. H. Voglewede & Son OPP. Court House

talking a great deal, but those who oppose him will later be amazed at the strength he will exert in the district. MJ—XJI~_ . -'IT Decatur is noticing no hard times, though complaints of a serious nature come from other Indiana cities. It looks now as though 1908 would far exceed all previous years for building, business and bustle in this city. A demand for a modern office building in Decatur proves we are marching forward in a marvelously rapid manner. It's good to live in such a community.

COURT HOUSE NEWS Doings are Very Quiet Indeed in the Adams Circuit Court. AN ANSWER FILED By Mrs. Gottschalk to Milton Hilpert’s Complaint A Few Other Items. Not a single, solitary entry was made in the court dockets up to noon today, the first complete “skunk" for several weeks. It will happen once in a while. Several of the Adams county attorneys were at Portland today, attending to professional affairs. i A current report was filed in the Gase guardianship cause last evening. — In the case of Milton S. Hilpert vs. ! Leota Gottschalk to modify an order of court and obtain possession of a ! child, the defendant has filed her an- ' swer. It is in two paragraphs, the first a general denial, the second alleging that Hilpert failed to pay the amount ordered by the court after fifteen months, that though his divorced wife and child lived in this county eighteen months, he failed to go to see the child. The former Mrs. Hilpert has since mar-ied and lives in Ohio and wishes to retain possession of her babe. No doubt the case will prove interesting as the two parties each have a resonable story. A marriage license has been issued to John Von Gunter, aged twenty-four and Lovina Sprunger, aged twentyfour. both of Monroe township. They will be married Thursday at the bride’s home. Frederick W. Busche, aged twentyfour, bom in Germany, applied today for naturalization papers. He has lived here eight years and is engaged at farming. o SOMETHING NEW. A complete line of Ash Trays, Card Trays, Cigar Pans, Smoker Sets and Tobacco Boxes, which are all decorated with fancy cigar bands. Also a supply of plain dishes and cigar bands for decorating purposes. Call and look the line over. T. C. CORBETT. DEMOCRAT WANT ADS.

BONES WON TWO And Stepped Into First Place in the Big Billiard Tournament. INTEREST GROWING Studabaker Jumps from Last Place to Second by Winning Two Games. STANDING. Played. Won. Lost Pct O. France 100 .... 5 4 1 .800 Studabaker 90 .... 3 2 1 .666 Allison 90 3 2 1 .666 B. France 70 6 4 2 .666 Peterson 70 8 5 3 .625 Bobo 90 6 2 4 .333 DeVoss 90 7 2 5 .289 Mangold 70 4 1 3 .250 Elzey 90 5 1 4 .200 Four games were played Monday in the DeWitt smoke house tournament and as a result some very noticeable changes were made in the per cent column and today there is a new leader. Perhaps the most noticeable change was that of Studabaker, who stepped from last place into second by defeating two strong men, namely Allison and Bobo. Studabaker was in rare form and clipped off the billiards at a frightful rate, his score against Allison being 80 to 94 and his score against Bobo being 80 to 92. O. France took the lead in the tournament when on last evening he defeated Peterson 100 to 65 and also took DeVoss into camp by a score of 100 to 87. The games were close and interesting throughout and were witnessed by a large crowd. The games from now on will be played as fast as possible and by the end of this week the contest should be closed and the champion determined. o M. L. Oliver, of Monroe, loked after business affairs in town today. Mrs. Mary F. Schwartz, of rural route four, was a pleasant caller in our city today. Miss May Sells returned to her home at Monroe this afternon after making a short stay in the city. H. Miller, of Geneva, transacted business in town this morning and returned to his hom e this afternoon. Mrs. F. Macke, who has been a guest at the home of Mrs. Blossom for some time, went to Portland this afternoon. A. C. Gregory is at present confined to his hom e an d is reported in a serious condition the result of a general breakdown.

OBITUARY. Verna F. Davis, daughter of F r ?uk O. and Mary A. Davis was born May--16, 1884; departed this life Jan. 3,1908 Age 23 years, 7 months, 17 days. She leaves to mourn her loss a father, mother, one sister, Stella, one brother Loyd, and a host of relatives and friends. • Verna was converted, baptized and united with the Pleasant Mills Baptist church under the pastorate of Rev. J. C. Sherrick, at the age of 17. She was a valuable member of the church of which she was a member. In whatever circle she chanced to move she was faithful to her Lord and Saviour, letting her light shine out in testimony and service. Fully prepared and willing to depart and be with her Lord in rest and peac e in the Heavenly land where sorrow, pain and death are unknown. Funeral was conducted by her pastor W. H. Day, at the St. Paul church, assisted by Rev. T. C. Payne, Sunday, Jan. 5, at 10 a. m. Interment in the Maplewood cemetery at Decatur, Ind. o- - A BROAD STATEMENT. This announcement is made without any qualifications. Hem-Roid is the one preparation in the world that guarantees it. Dr. Leonhardt’s Hem-Roid will cure any case pi Piles. It is in the form of a tablet. It is the only Pile remedy used in ternally. It is impossible to cure an established case of Piles with ointments, suppositories, injections, or outward appliances. A guarantee is issued with every package of Dr. Leonhardt’s Hem-Roid which contains a month’s treatment. Go and talk to Holthouse Drug Co., about it. Price SI.OO. Dr. Leonhardt Co., Niagara Falls, N. Y. LOST —A gold locket and chain on New Year’s eve. somewhere between Eleventh and the Pictwium. Finder plase leave at this office.

11l ■ Accurate prices paid by Decatur merchants for various products. Corrected every day at 2 o’clock. EAST BUFFALO, N. Y„ Jan. 7.— Market steady. Prime steers $5.75 Medium steers @55.25 Stockers to best feeders .. -@s3 50 Receipts, hogs, 180 cars; market steady. Mediums and heavies .... @54.75 Yorkers @54.75 Pigs @54.75 sheep, 100 cars; market steady. Best spring lambs @57.75 Wether sheep @55.50 Culls, slipped @54.00 CHICAGO MARKETS. July wheat . 08% May wheat 106% July corn 60% May corn 61% July oats *B% May oats 54% PITTSBURG MARKETS. Jan. 7.—Hog supply, 100 carse; marget steady. Heavies @s4 75 Mediums @s4 75 Yorkers @54.75 Light @54.70 Pigs @54.65 TGLBM MARKETS. Cash wheat 102 May wheat 107 Cash com 61 May com 62% Cash oats 54% May oats 55 PRODUCE. By Becatur Produce Co. Eggs r»..23c Butter 18c Fowls 7c Chicks 7c Ducks 7c Geese 6c Turkeys, young 12c Turkeys, toms 9c Turkeys, hens 9c HIDES. By B. Kalver and Son. Beef hides 4%c Calf hides 7c Tallow 4c Sheep pelts : ,[email protected] Mink [email protected] Muskrat sc@2oc Coon 10c@$1.00 Shunk 10c@9Oc Possum 5c @ 25c

li] n nfnrl Young Men and Women nuillvUTo Learn Telegraphy. The only school in Indiana giving it’s students Actual Main Line Practice on a railroad train wire while in school. Graduates are employed on the Chicago & Erie, Pennsylvania Linos, Lake Erie & Western and by the Western Union Telegraph Company. Send for College Journal. C. A. CARPENTER, Principal, Ossian, Ind. — After Once Tasting ymbt no one wants an old-fash-ioned cod liver oil preparation or emulsion, because Vinol is a much better bodybuilder and strength creator for old people, weak children, and for coughs, colds, bronchitis, etc. If it does no good we will return your money. SMITH, YAAM A FALK Weak Kidneys Weak Kidneys, rarely point to weak kidney Herves. The Kidneys, like the fHeart, and the Stomach. find their weakness, net to the organ itself, but in the nerves that control and guide and strengthen them. Dr. Shoop’s Restorative is a medlelae specifically prepared to reach these controlling nerves. To doctor the Kidneys alone, is fut So. It is a waste of time, and of money as well. If yonr back aches or Is weak. if the urine scalds, or is dark and strong, If yon have symptoms of Brights or other districting or dangerous kidney disease, try Dr. Shoop’s Restorative a mdhth— Tablets or Llauld—and see what it can and will do tor you. Druggist recommend and sell Dr. Shoop’s Restorative W. H. WACHTRtEB.

" TRIALS OF THE RICH. Financial Prosperity and Its Worries and Perplexities. Once upon a time a young man and a girl loved each other fondly. He was poor, but bright, energetic and persevering. She was pretty, cheerful and amiable. They married. Their friends thought they might hare watted until their prospects ware better, but they laughed prudence to scorn. Two years after the marriage the wife met one of her friends. “How are you getting along?” asked the friend. “Ve<j nicely," said the wife, beaming. “My husband is so good, and I have such a lovely baby. And. just think, we have SI,OOO in the bank, and we don't owe a cent to anybody!” Five years later the friend met her again. „ “I hear you are doing very weu, she said. “Some one told me your husband had SIO,OOO Invested in real “Why, yes.” said the wife, “bat tt'a such • worry. There are repairs and taxes and Interest on mortgagsa. and one of the tenants has Just moved ont owing us a whole month’s rent Isn’t It a shame?” Five years mere elapsed, and again the friend met her. "They tell me you’re growing rich, she said. “Ye-es. but I'm anxious about the stock market. My husband has $50,000 In stocks, and he thinks they’re going up, but I’m not so sure about It. Indeed. I didn’t sleep a wink last night” Five years later—another meeting. "From what I hear your husband will soon be a millionaire.” “Oh, I don’t know,” said the wife. “He hasn’t more than half a million yet And It is so tied up In all aorta of Investments—one never knows bow they will turn out I just wish we had enough to put the money in government bonds so that we wouldn't have to worry. But of course the income from half a million in government bonds wonldn’t be enough to make both ends meet And yet, do you know some people have such absurd notions about the amount of money we have! One crank has even sent a letter to my husband threatening to shoot him just because he is rich. I declare, sometimes I’m so worried I don’t know what to do.” It would be pleasant to give this story a happy ending, but that isn t the kind it had. This lady's wealth continued to Increase as long as she lived, and she never ceased to be uneasy except In those brief Intervals when she forgot all about it.—Bohemian. _____ The Age of an Oyster. It Is just as easy to tell the age of an oyster by looking at its shell as it It to ascertain the age of a horse by examining its teeth or a tree by inspecting the circles revealed by the ax or saw when it is laid low. When the oyster is six months old It is as big as a dime, when one year old it will cover a silver half dollar, and when two years old will be about the clrcum, ference of a silver dollar. The oyster, unlike the crab, is not obliged to seek new quarters or build a new house every time he grows appreciably. The extensions that he puts on his house are clearly marked by a well defined ridge. Oysters are esteemed to be at their best when between four and fiva years of age, and the planters endeavor to protect the beds for that length of time. Conscientious oyster men—that is, men who are not inclined to kill the goose that lays the golden egg—always return ,to the bed oysters Chat are too yoeafi—Pearson’s. Mermaids and Mermen. Not many generations ago mermaids and mermen were believed in implicitly. Says the Abend en Almanac of New Prognostications For the Year 1688: "To conclude for this year 1688. Near the place where the famous Dee payeth his tribute to the German •cean, If curious observers of wonderful things In nature will be pleased thither to resort the L 13 and 29 of May and tn divers other times in the ensuing summer, as also in the harvest time, to the 7 and 14 October, they will undoubtedly see a pretty company es mar maids, creatures of admirable beauty and likewise hear their charmteg sweet melodious voices—“ln well tun'd tneasures and harmoittoes lays. Extol their maker and his bounty praise. That godly honest men. In everything. In quiet peace may live, God save the king!” Heaving the Log. Heaving the log is one of those pie-1 turesque sea expressions with which all landsmen are acquainted, though probably few coaid explain the exact process. The “log” is a quadrant shaped piece of wood loaded with lead at the curve. The line to which it is attached is 120 fathoms long and is divided by knots into equal distances of forty-seven feet each. These distances are the same fraction of a nautical mile (a knot) as twenty-eight seconds is of one hour. Consequently the- number of knots that slip off the reel is twenty-eight seconds after the “log” is in the water is the speed per hour that the ship is making.—St James’ Gazette. Ret regressive. Extracts from Miss Evergreen's diary: “This is my eighth birthday. A new brother came. His name will be Fritz “Fritz is twenty years old today, just a year younger than I. People always take us for twins. “Fritz will be thirty years old tomor row. his wedding day. How the tim« does fly! Os course he is eight years my senior and used to carry me about when I was a baby; still it seems strange to think of the boy gettteg married.”— FUegwade Btettsr.

Out January Clearance Sale is on, A great many people have taken advantage of the ’ 9 P lendid bargains Wil are offering. yjJMvqVirJ We beileve we have enough to go round. It will pay > you to look them sf over whether you AWf- U buy or not. TjM . Remember we i J save you 50 1A per cent on men’s ■ MW and hoys’ clothes. L Special— 50 Boys SSL'VUI Sweaters 50c and $1 values go this week at 39c Holthouse, Schulte &Co WE SELL Nyal’s White Pine and Tar Cough Remedy on □> positive guarantee It contains no al* cohol. cloroform or opiates Try it- If not satisfied your money will be refunded. MAKE US PROVE IT THE holthouse drug co. Do You Went to Buy a Farm We have for sale an 80-acre farm well located in a good community, mostly good black land, well fenced and fairly well drained, fair five room house and small barn, about 60 acres under cultivation, some good timber. Price, $5,500. Also 80-acre farm with a good 8-room house in good condition with cellar 16x24, large barn, corn cn’b, wagon shed, wind pump, good well, large orchard,well fenced and well drained, all black land, 8 acres timber. Price, $8,000.00. Also 100-acre tract well located w’ith fairly good buildings, close to a good town, fairly well fenced and drained, soil is sandy loam. Will make an excellent stock farm. Price, $5,000.00, if sold soon. Also a 40-acre tract, close to town, school and church, buildings in fair condition, well fenced and fairly well drained. Price, $3,200.00. Some choice lots in good locations. THE NORTHERN INDIANA REAL ESTATE TO Phone 438. Office Over Bums* Hamess Shop.

FOUND —A whip and a rooe at German Reformed church Christmas evening. Owner may nave samd by calling on Fred Kolter, Ma gley, Ind., and describing property. 317-3 t o The biggest and cheapest sale ever run, True and Runyon’s special continued sale. Your money will buy more value than any other place in Adams county. — DISTURBED THE CONGREGATION The person who disturbed the congregation last Surtfay by continually coughing is requested to buy a bottle of Foley’s Honey and Tar _THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. If you would to know the Greatest Purchasing Power of your SI.OO invest at True and Runyon. o — ■ TRY DEMOCRAT WANT ADB.

How to Avoid Pneumonia You can avoid pneumonia and other serious results from a cold by taking Foley’s Honey and Tar. It stops the cough and expels the cold from the system as it is mildly laxative. Refuse any but the genuine in the yellow package. THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. —— ~ AN INSIDIOUS DANGER One of the worst features of kidney trouble is that it is an insidious dis ease and before the victim realiz his danger he may have a fatal ma ady. Taka Foley’s Kidney Cure at toe first sign of trouble as it corrects regularities and prevents Bright s d> ease and diabetes. _ THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO Why fool with soot in your stoves, pipes and flues when you can huy Soottess Jackson Hill coal of Trick- • and MJerica that will please '■‘ _ Phone 543. 5 f