Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 126, Decatur, Adams County, 27 May 1909 — 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............ 55.00 Per month, by mail 25 cents Per year, by mail $2.50 Singl ecopies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postofflce at Decatur, Indiana, as second-class mail matter. J. H. HELLER, Manager. A movement lias again been inaugurated for a later inauguration day, and it is really is to be hoped that it will be changed. March fourth in Washington is destined to be the worst that the weather calendar can produce. Senator Shively will have more to say on the tariff before the fine' vote is taken. The shot that he fired at the Aldrich bill was intended to direct attention to certain distinctive features. A broadside at the main structure is liable to be fired any day within the next two weeks.—South Bend Times. St Joseph county seems to be on the slate for a local option election, and the time scheduled is the latter part of June. Petitions are now m circulation and it is said they hope to get forty per cent, of the voters to sign the petitions before they are presented to the commissioners at their June meeting. BACK AFTER A LONG ABSENCE W. H. Hower and Daughter Arrived this Morning from Denver. W. H. Hower and daughter, of Denver, Colorado, arrived in this city this morning for an extended visit with relatives. Mr. Hower is known by many of our people, he having left here twenty-nine years ago and since then has all over the west, but for the last several years has lived in Denver, where he Is doing well. This is Mr. Hower’s first visit back to the old home since he left twenty-nine years ago, and of course the change that met his eye on every hand, eould hardly be realized. He with his daughter went to Craigville at noon, where they will visit the former’s mother, and whom he has not seen since leaving here so long ago. WILL JOIN AN ALASKAN PARTY Robert Schrock Will Accompany a Government Surveying Party. Robert Schrock arrived home this afternoon from Ithaca, New York, where he has been serving as an assistant instructor at Cornell university, and has also been taking some of the college work. After a few days’ visit with relatives here he w’ill leave Saturday for Chicago, where he joins a band of ten, who will proceed to Seattle and where they will be busy for about two months. The party is a surveying «quad in the employ of the government and the trip means good pay and expenses, besides the experience will be an invaluable one for the members of the party.

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G.A. R. PROGRAM Decoration Day Services Will Be of Unusual Interest THE LINE OF MARCH Will Be Formed on Corner of Madison and Third Street The committees appointed by the G. A. R. to perfect arrangements for Decoration day have completed their work and the event gives promise of being one long to be remembered. At nine o’clock Mofiday morning line of march will be formed at the post hall on Madison street and the veterans will march to the cemeteries to decorate the graves of their departed comrades. After returning they will adjourn until one o’clock at which time the memorial sermon will be delivered by Rev. L. C. Hessert. Musical selections will be rendered during this service and a flag will be presented to the oldest member of Sam Henry Post. After the meeting in the court room is adjourned the line of march will be formed at the corner of Madison and Third streets. The parade will march south on Third street to Jefferson and east on Jefferson to Second, thence north on Second to Monroe street and east to the river bridge where Bowers will be strewn on the waters of the St. Marys in memory of the gallant sailors whose lives have been sacrificed for their country's sake. Those who wish to contribute flowers are requested to have them at the G. A. R. hall Saturday. Every Decatur citizen is cordially invited to participate in the services that they may be made most memorable.

AGED WOMAN DEAD - Remains of Late Mrs. Esther Stevens Will Arrive HERE TOMORROW She Died this Morning at Daughter’s Home at Daleville Mrs. Esther Stevens, for many years a resident of Monroe, died this morning at five o’clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Miller, at Daleville, Indiana, at the age of eighty years. The decedent lived in Monroe during the most of her life, leaving that place a little more than one year ago for Daleville, to take up her abode with her daughter. She has been ailing for some time resultant to ailments peculiar to old age and during the past few weeks she has been in a critical condition. Death has been momentarily expected. The many Adams county friends of the departed estimable woman will join the bereaved relatives in their hour of sorrow. The remains will arrive in Decatur tomorrow, from where they will be conveyed to the Martz cemetery for interment. The deceased is sur- * vived by relatives at Monroe and has children living elsewhere. The funeral services will be held from the home of the daughter in Daleville tomorrow. Q=. Dr. Rayl, of Monroe, was a business I caller in the city yesterday and has returned to his home. Misses Pan'sv Bell. Frances Bryson and Frances Merryman, who are attending school at DePauw university will arrive home in the early part of June to spend their summer vacation, probably about June 5. — o Many weak, nervous women have been restored to health by Foley’s Kidney Remedy as it stimulates the kidneys so they will eliminate the waste matter from the blood. Impurities depress the nerves, causing nervous exhaustion and other ailments. Commence today and you will soon be well. Pleasant to take. The HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. o— ■ • NOTICE. Dr. G. Thain will be at the Murray House Saturday, May 29, and will treat all diseases without an operation also will treat loss manhood without medTcine and varicocele without an operation. Consultation free at the Murray House May 29. Dr. G. Thain, of Ft. Wayne, I 126-2t l

TO HOLD MEMORIAL SERVICES Berne K. P. Lodge to Remember Memorial Day. Berne Lodge, number 398, K. P. will hold memorial services at their casUe hall on next Sunday afternoon at 2:30. Since their organization they have lost six members by death, Alfred Minger, Jacob Abnet, T. G. Hopkins, J. E. Mahoney, E. B. Rice and Fred Neaderhouser. The program for the memorial services is quite good those on the program being Rev. Eli Engle, William Wiswell, F. C. Foreman, R. B. Kerr, A. J. Porter, T. A. Gottschalk and J. W. Marshall. o HAS RETURNED FROM KANSAS Harry Jeffries has returned from a month's trip in Kansas and he reports some very exciting and interesting experiences in that state. Harry went to Bazine, Kansas, and Indulged in hunting during the most of the time he was there. He succeeded in killing several prairie chicken, badgers, prairie dogs and other animals. He brought several animals home with him and they will be on exhibition at the Hensley jewelry store in the near future. o SOCIETY COLUMN Mrs. Harvey Lee to Entertain the Aid Society of Christian Church THE MITE SOCIETY Miss Florence is Entertaining the Waste R Club this Afternoon The Aid Society of the Christian church will meet Friday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Lee tomorrow. There will be a large company there and after the business is transacted and the devotional services performed, the time will be spent socially as Mr. and Mrs. Lee and family will move to Michigan. Mr. Lee has purchasel a farm in that state, and his family will soon .go. Mrs. Lee has been a strong worker in the church, and the congregation as well as the Ladies’ Aid Society, will greatly miss her. All the members and their families are invited to attend the farewell meeting. Decatur people will regret to see Mr. and Mrs. Lee leave the c y.

The Mite Society of the M. E. church will meet with Min. D. N. Erwin this week. All the members are invited to attend and enjoy a pleasant time. Invitations have been received in the city of the high school commencemeat at Muncie. The exercises will be held at the Wysor Grand opera house at that place, June 4. The class Is a splendid one. and they are well prepared for further work. On the class roll appears the name of Miss Greta Coil, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will Coil, formerly of this city. Mr. Coil and family moved away from here about seven years ago. At that time he was connected with the Egg Case Co. Frequent visits, however, have made a large number of friends and acquaintances here, besides old friends. Miss Greta was a pupil of the Decatur schools when the family resided her. The program rendered from two to four o'clock yesterday afternoon at the art exhibit was as follows: Piano solo, Erma Houck, Esther Evans; vocal solo, Flossie York; piano solo, Frances Burrel; piano trio, Gladys Meyers, Glenys Mangold, Dorothy Dugan; vocal solo, Glen Neptune; vocal solo, Frances Laman; piano solo, Erma Schindler; instrumental solo. Hazel France.

The Euchre Club held its meeting' at the home of Mrs. Fred Bell Wednesday evening. Mrs. Bell entertained a number of outside guests, beside the club members. Cards proved very interesting, Mrs. Charles Meyers winning club prize and Mrs. Frank Bell guests’ prize. Mr. and Mrs. Bell will leaA e soon for Hillsdale, Mich, where they will make their home, and the party last evening was in the nature of a farewell. Decatur people will regret very much the leaving of Mr. and Mrs. Bell. Those who were present that were not club members were the Mesdames Lee Vance, John Heller, L. G. Ellingham, John Peterson, David Studabaker, C. A. Dugan, Roy Archbold, John Tyndall, Frank Bell, D. M. Hensley, French Quinn, [and Miss Bessie Schrock, Mrs. Fannie Cole.

MAN WAS INSANE When Picked Up at the Vail Factory this Morning by Marshal Butler WAS TAKEN TO JAIL Came Here Last Night from St. Joseph Hospital at Fort Wayne It required two hours for Marshal Butler to take a stranger named Charles Davis from the Vail factory where he had spent the night to the county jail this morning. The man seemed sick and the marshal used care to not mistreat him. It developed that the fellow is insane and had wandered away from St. Joseph hospital at Fort Wayne, where he had been receiving treatment for two weeks past. He is about fortyfive or fifty years old and says he has a brother at Warren. He insists that the doctors have been giving him medicine which makes him weak. It is believed that he has been ill and the long sickness has left his mind weakened. The officials have not rally decided what to do with him. He came to Decatur last evening and spent the night at the Vail factory, remaining there until he was reported to the officials this morning, when he was taken up. His condition is pitiable and he needs care. THEY WINK AT THE DOCTOR And Get a Prescription for That Tired Feeling. Complaints are coming to the state board of medical registration and examination that doctors in “dry” territory have been guilty of misusing their powers to prescribe liquor sos a consideration when sought for that purpose by the thirsty. Dr. W. T. Gott, secretary of the board, stated yesterday that numerous complaining letters had come to the board from “dry” territory all over the state. Some of these communications were signed and some were anonymous. Where it was possible the complainant was asked to prepare an affidavit making oath to the violation of the law and forward to the board. The complaints state that all that is necessary to make the “blind tiger” wink is to first tip the wink at the doctor. Sometimes a “dry” weather reference is necessary. There may be, and probably are other methods by which the doctor willing to write such prescriptions receives the message, but they have not been communicated. Under the law the board has a right to revoke a license for gross immorality. Gross immorality has been interpreted by the courts to mean any knowing violation of tlje state laws. It is stated that the liquor prescription is never given without knowing its purpose to be merely an evasion of the law. There must be an understanding between the physician and his “patient’’ in order that the right sort of prescription can be given. Tlie next meeting of the board is in July, and it seems probable that some of the offenders may have to appear and defend themselves. o REMARKABLE GROWTH NOT A SURPRISE. The Reason is That Merit Will Invariably Win Out. The remarkable growth of the Root Juice Medicine Company, of Fort. Wayne, Ind., is not a surprise to the many thousands of people that have bought and used the wonderful Root Juice Compound, as merit will invariably win out. The great medicine has permanently cured so many people all over the country that it is now hard to find some one who does not know of one or more remarkable cures

; resulting from the use of the discovery. In this locality scores of people have tested the merits of the remedy and are praising it so highly to their friends that it is no wonder the large sales of Root Juice at the Holthouse drug store do not diminish, but rather keep on the increase. It is generally believed the reason the remedy makes so many remarkable cures is because of its wonderful soothing, healing and tonic properties, which seem to have a very quics and direct effect on the stomach, bowels, bladder, liver and kidneys. Scores of home people, whose names are freely given at the drug store, hare called to tell of the remedy curing them of nervousness, rheumatism, kidney troubles, bloating, belching, heartburn and other symptoms of bad digestion.

We’re Strong On Black and Blue Suits, sort of a specialty with us, Serges, Worsteds, Thibets and Unfinished Worsteds. All wool, finished nicely and guaranteed for service. T will pay you to look them over. Prices 81000 to 822.50 Holthouse, Schulte & Co. Good Clothes Sellers for Men and Boys.

ELECTED SENATOR Congressman Lorimer Wins the Toga in Illinois WAS A DEADLOCK Republicans and Democrats Unite Upon Lorimer Springfield, 111., May 27.—Representative William Lorimer of Chicago is the junior United States senator from Illinois. He was elected on the nine-ty-fifth ballot in the joint assembly by a coalition of Democratic and Republican votes to fill the vacancy from Illinois, which has existed in the national senate at Washington . since Albert J. Hopkins’ term expired on March 4. The deadlock has existed since January. Mr. Lorimer's total vote was 108. Speaker Shurtleff cast the vote in the joint assembly which insured Lorimer’s election. When the speaker’s name was reached on the house roll call 88 votes had been cast in the house and 12 votes had been cast in the senate for William Lorimer, making a total of 100 votes. ’Shurtleff's was the eighty-ninth vote in the house and the one hundred and first vote in the joint session for Lorimer, which gave the senator-elect a majority of 200 senators and representatives who were present and voting. Lorimer’s election was not dependent upon a majority of those present and voting. He also received a constitutional majority of 102 votes, and had, before the vote was announced, six votes to spare. With the cast of Shurtleff's vote the members of the legislature and the vast throng that filled the house galleries knew that the deadlock was broken. Pandemonium broke loose. Fifty-five Republicans and fifty-three Democrats, voting together, brought about Lorimer’s election and broke the long-standing deadlock. — > you want to feel well, look well, aud be well, take Foley’s Kidney Remedy. It tones up the kidneys and bladder, purifies the blood and restores health and strength. Pleasant to take and contains no harmful drugs. Why not commence today’ The HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO.

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THREE MORE DRY (Continued on page 2.) favorable, rain falling during the forenoon, and the clouds remaining heavy and threatening during the remainder of the day, but these conditions kept the farmers from working and served to increase the vote from the rural districts. A SOCIETY EVENT (Continued from page 1.) Black and Mrs. Heading of Decatur. From out of town the following were present at the ceremony: Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Vanßlack of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Davis of Danville, 111., Mr. and Mrs. Charles Niblick of Decatur, Mrs. Will Niblick and son of Decatur, Mrs. B. A. Heading of Decatur, Mrs. John Dickens of Fort Wayne and Mrs. Bertha O'Connel of Fort Wayne.

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THEBOARD OPENED Reserve Seat Sale for Commencement on Friday Evening i REV. WICKERSHAM His Lecture Will Be the Treat of the Evening and Well Worth Hearing The Holthouse Drug company did a landofflce business this morning in writing reserves for the seat sale commencement night. The board opened ae eight o’clock and an hour later nearly every available seat in (Continued on page 4)

desirable residence properties on north Third street ‘at S2eOOaOA $2,300.00 and $2,500.00. In acre tracts and small farms we can now offer you: 7So—ls a one-acre tract just outside of the corporation of Decatur, his a small frame house, good well of water, fine lot of fruit trees, etc., $456.00. 777 —Is an acre and a quarter tract on the pike road, just west of the city. Has good frame cottage with large cellar, stable, fruit trees, garden, etc $850.00 754 —Is an acre and a quarter tract on briek street in north Decatur; comfortable house with cellar, drove well, stable, etc $2,200.00 743 —Is a fifteen acre tract oa the traction line north of Decatur; fa near the station, has good buildings and nice location ....$2,500.00 771 —Is a good small farm of thirty acres; is on the stoned road, near school, and has comfortable cottage house; is a good grade of land. $2,350.00. farm properties for further descrip -