Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 209, Decatur, Adams County, 2 September 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 $5.0) Per month, by mail 25 cents Per year, by mail $2.50 Single copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second-class mail matter. J. H. HELLER, Manager. The Wall Street Journal is a financial and not a political paper yet it has always heretofore supported the Republican party in its national campaigns. And here is how it sizes up the work of the special session: ‘•We have only to. glance at the tariff discussion in the senate to see how tar we have fallen back, after the mor-; al upheaval of a few years ago. The spectacle there is so base, so utterly without patriotism or principle, so far from the ideals of either party, so crudely self-seeking and so callously ready to sacrifice the interest of an entire nation for the benefit of a sma'l part of it, the interest of a state for a small influential portion of that state, and even the interest of a congressional district for a few contributors to a campaign fun, that it points to the establishment of a new tyranny. This moral rot in our commercial system, so indecently displayed in the United States senate, is one of a number of signs which should cause us to think. The spectacle at present afforded by the United States senate is an insult to every self-respecting American. It exhibits statesmen supposed to be acting in a nationa' capacity owned In soul and pocketbook by petty local interests, while one corporation after another shows ‘hat it can snap its fingers at the promises made by the Republican president and all his party before election, and accepted by the American people.” THE FORT WAYNE FAIR An unusual feature of the live stock exhibits at the great Fort Wayne fair, Sept. 14-18, will be the belted cattle, hogs and poultry from the famous Belted Stock Farm of Earl Alger of Wabash. Every animal from this unique farm has a distinctive white belt about the body, and the exhibit will attract great attention. The traction company /is arranging its service and tracks to facilitate handling patrons to and from the grounds, with the expectation of transporting the greatest crowds in the history of the fair.

Harvest Time is Here Again! Soon you will be ready to buy that farm or city property. Carefully read this list, which gives some of the best locations on the market. Small or large tracts, medium and modern city properties are now offered for sale by the THE SNOW AGENCY- Decatur, Ind. ’Phone 230.

777 —Is a comfortable four-room cotage and good cellar, located on the public road near Decatur... .$850.00 787 —Is a five acre tract, with fruit trees, greenhouse, drove well and good five-room residence, recently remodeled $1,250.00 7 .43 —1 s a desirable fifteen acre tract on the traction line near Decatur. Has good buildings, house is on a nice elevation $2,500.00 771—is a good thirty acre tract on the stoned road near market and school. Is largely black land, small biuldings $2,350.00 753 —Is a well improved forty acre tract on a good pike road near Decatur. Is well fenced and near school, and market $3,300.00 OTHER TRACTS. We have a number of good eighty acre tents well located at SIOO.OO an acre. Also, An 80 acres, no buildings, at $4,000.00 An 80 acres with fair buildings, at An 80 acres near Decatur, no buildings, at $6,400.00 An 80 acres near Decatur, good buildings, at $6,800.00 And several larger tracts at bargain prices. We can offer you a large list of city! property. Most of the following list has, but recently, been put upon the I market. 783 —A four-room cottage on north Third street, long lot, good sewerage, brick walks, cistern, etc., 775—A comfortable cottage on South

A MEAT INSPECTOR Jacob Meyer is Notified of His Appointment to Service FOR GOVERNMENT Is Requested to Report at Kansas City, Mo., for Duty Jacob Meyer, who for several years worked for the Decatur Packing Co., now in the employ of Fred Mutchle? •the Monroe street meat man, received a letter this morning from Washington. D. C., in which he was informed that he had been appointed a govern- ' ment meat inspector. The letter also stated that he would be expected to report at Kansas City, Missouri, by the sixteenth of this month for duty. Mr. Meyer early this spring took a competititive examination for the po ■ 1 sition of meat inspector and he reI ceived a very creditable grade. In fact he so impressed the government officials that he is among the first of the applicants to receive an appointment. Mr. Meyer is well versed in the meat business. Although comparatively young, he has had world's of experience in the various departments of a packing house. He wi'l likely be assigned to a very respon sible position at Kansas City, which will carry with it a neat salary. o FIRE BUG AT EVANSVILLE Nineteen Barns Have Been Burned Within the Last Week, Evansville, Ind., Sept. 2. —That a firebug is operating in the city is the firm belief of the police. Last bight and early this morning eight more barns in this city were destroyed by fire, the losses being less than $5,000. This brings the total number of barns destroyed here during the last week to nineteen. All of the fires have been of supposed incendiary origin. The police believe that a pyromaniac is working in the city and that he fires the stables just to see the blaze or that he delights to see the horses run. — o KILLS EGG-STEALING SNAKE Woman, Surprised by Big Serpent. Dispatches It. Chester, Pa., Sept. 2. —Mrs. William Reed, of Upland, had a fierce fight with a large snake in the rear yard of her home. She was carrying a pan of ashes when the snake darted from the grass toward her. Hastening to the kitchen and procuring a club, Mrs. Reed struck the reptile several times and killed it. The snake measured five feet and it had been stealing eggs from the hennery.

Ninth street. Good location, near Adams street Chicken park, cistern, etclßso.oC 721 —A comfortable story and a half residence, on Eleventh street. Stable, drove well, plenty of fruit corner lot $1,300.02 780 —A roomy seven-room residence property, with cellar, stable, etc., on north Third street. Good sewerage $1,700.00 745 —A nearly new five-room cottage on South Front street. Cement walks, city and cistern water, good sewerage $1,150.00 782 —A good, and well located cottage on Mercer avenue. Electric lights, cistern and city water, stable sewerage, etcsl,7oo.oo 778 —A well located and convenient cottage on South Tenth street Nice porch, drove well, maple shade, fruit trees, stable, etc 51,750.00 1 785 —A well located story and a half residence on the traction line In i south Decatur. Stable, city and cistern water, bath, electric lights, etc .$2,200.00 786 —Is a new seven-room story and a half residence on North Second street, cement walks, cistern, cellar, stable, etc. Sidewalks and all I street improvements made $2,750.00 '7Bl—ls a comfortable two-story residence on stone foundation, on Front stret, city and cistern water, furnished bath. Electric lights, fruit, and shade trees, etable, etc. Is on a brick street, cement sidewalks, all improvements made $3,800.00 See larger lists for other properties.

MINERS’ STRIKE AVERTED Order for Use of Black Powder Rescinded for the Present. Pittsburg, Pa., Sept. I.—The dispute betwen the miners and the operators of the Pittsburg district, affecting 18,000 men, 7,000 of whom have been on a strike for over a week was settled tonight at a conference between the operators and the national executive board members of the United Mine Workers of America, with National President Thomas L. Lewis, of the organization A notice will be posted tonight in all the mines in this district telling the miners that the recent order of the coal companies that black powder must be used in mining coal is rescinded for the present. This is A concession on the part of the operators. The state authorities ordered the use of this powder, but the miners contend that it shatters the coal to such an extent that their earnings are greatly decreased. TO MEET MONDAY The September Term of Commissioners’ Court Will Begin Then FIX TAX RATE The Board Holds a Session at Bluffton on Wednesday The September session of the commissioners will begin at their room in the auditor's office on next Monday, and for a day or two the regular routine of term business will be done. At present there is nothing out of the ordinary that will come up at this time. One of the important things that will come up during the session is the fixing of the tax rate that w ; ll be in force during next year. The board have been extremely cautious and the rate in vogue for county purposes now is about as low as any county in the state.

The board will go to Bluffton on Wednesday the Bth, at which time the J. A. Engle road will be sold. The road is on the county line between Hartford township in this county, and Nottingham township in Wells county, and is about two miles in length. The estimate for its construction is $6,673.25. A SUDDEN ILLNESS Overcomes Rural Carrier Hamrick While on His Route this Morning WIFE IS SUMMONED Is at the Campbell Home Near the State Line— Suffers from Cramps Warren Hamrick, rural mail carrier on route ten out of this city, is very seriously sick at the home of C. F. Campbell, near the state line. Mr. Hamrick left here this morning at the usual time feeling as well.as usual, at least he did not complain of any illness. At noon, Dr. Christy, of Willshire, called the postoffice over the phone and informed the postmaster that Mr. Hamrick was very ill with severe cramps and asked that Mrs. Hamrick be sent to her husband's side at once. Postmaster Frisinger left immediately to continue Mr. Hamrick s route and Mrs. Hamrick accompanied him to the Campbell home. The friends of the stricken man are hoping that the sickness is not as severe as they feared after receiving the message from the physician. Mr. Hamrick is one of the oldest carriers on the force here, and is well known over the county. Best line of school hose in city.. 10c Dutch collars 5 C DON’T MISS THIS Saturday, Sept. 4th, we will offer a lot of beautiful pictures at 10c. samples of which can now be seen in oar window at The Fair, 5c and 10c Store. Monroe Street.

SOCIETY COLUMN Mrs. J. H. Moltz to Entertain Ladies’ Mite Society A THIMBLE PARTY Mrs. French Quinn to Entertain the Ladies’ Aid Society Mrs. J. H. Heller will entertain ' a few lady friends Saturday afternoon at a thimble party, in honor of Miss Bertha Heller, who leaves Monday for* Marion to begin her duties as a teacher in the Horace Mann schools of that city. The Ladies’ Mite Society of the Methodist church will meet Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Harry Moltz on Fourth street All the members are solicited to attend. The Ladies' Aid Society of the Christian church will meet Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. French Quinn in the soutn part of the city. The members are earnestly asked to be present. A picnic supper was given at Maple Grove park today for Miss Elizabeth Rathfon of Indianapolis. Those; who composed the party were the ' Misses Marguerite Garard. Anna l Fahrenbach, Agnes Webber, Gene- j vieve Berling, Vivian Closs, Catharine j McClean, Emma Kinney, Germaine . Coffee, Messrs. Glen Tague, Bob Meibers, Stuart Niblick, Felix Holthouse, Walter Corbett. Several other boys came out later in the evening. The Boston store girls gave a picnic at the park early this morning. Rising with the dawn they walked U> Steele's park and spread a picnic breakfast, which was excellent after their walk. The September meeting of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the M. E. church will be held next Thursday. Sept. 9, when the final | arrangements will be completed for. their ransack sale to be held in the city hall, beginning the first week ' s in October and continuing for about ’ two weeks. This society gave a sale, , last year and it was such a success ■ | in many ways that they at once voted i to make it an annual occurrence and , j have in connection with it an apron sale.

Great preparations have been going on for several weeks among the girls who are going away to school. At the last minute they are all as busy as can be making final arrangements. Among those who will leave in a fewweeks are the Misses Frances Dugan who will attend Vassar; Leota Bailey, Wellesley; Helen Niblick, Ferry Hall, Lake Forest, Ill.; Bessie Boyers, Champaign. 111.; Pearl Burdge, Indianapolis; Marie Allison, Washington, D. C., and the Messrs Clyde Baumgartner, Indianapolis; Earl Bremerkamp, Collegeville; John Wemhoff, Collegeville; Von Burke, Indiana University; Walter Baltzell, Indiana University; True Daugherty, Purdue. The first meeting of the Shakespeare Club was held yesterday commencing the winter’s study. Lessons will be on the history of the new possessions of ancient Rome. Some of the papers will be on famous men before Christ, and many evenings this winter will be spent in a profitable as well as pleasui-able way. to comFmonday (Continued from page 1.) va. Both parties have been married once before. Real estate transfers: Elizabeth F. Losh et al to John G. Harmon et al, lot 436. Decatur, $2,000. Maggie S. Vesey et al to W. O. Newton, inlot 12, Monroe, $155. W. O. Newton to N. F. Martz, lot 12, Monroe, $2lO. Anthony Glendening to J. M. Rose, part lot 11, Berne, $35. Dyonis Schmitt to John Smitley, lot 294, Decatur, $4,900. Amos Ellenberger to Jeremiah Luginbill, lot 190, Berne, $4,400. CURES CHICKEN CHOLERA Mrs. G. A. Beazley, Trenton, Ky., says: "I certainly had fine success in treating my fowls for limberneck and cholera with Bourbon Poultry Cure. I gave them this medicine in both drinking water and feed. I like this remedy fine.” Sold by H. H. Bremerkamp. z

BOY’S CLOTHES FOR SCHOOL WEAR There are a lot of clothes for boys made now-a-days that we wouldn’t care to sell Know they would never please you; that you wouldn’t get your money’s worth. We’ve made a special effort this season to give you the best there is in style, fit and wear and the’re clothes we are glad to sell and they’re clothes you’ll be glad to get for your boys. Double Breasted Styles, either plain or Knickerbocker pants, 7 to 17 year sizes, come in the new colorings, Gray, Olive, Green and Tan mixtures. Prices: 82.00, 82.50, 83.00 and 83.50 See our North Show Window. Holthouse, Schulte & Co. Good Clothes Sellers for Men and Boys

ASK FOR A REHEARING A Petition Filed in the State House Engineer Case. Indianapolis, Sept. 2. —A petition for rehearing of the case of Samuel C. Shutt against the state of Indiana in relation to Michael H. Cain was filed yesterday in the supreme court by Cain through his attorneys, John W. Kern and Charles E. Cox. The case arose from the appointment of Cain as state house engineer by Governor Marshall. Auditor Billheimer and Secretary of State Sims named Charles J. Wheeler as custodian and he appointed Shutt engineer, a position he has since held. The case went to the supreme court and both Colbert and Cain lost. The petition is redundant with sarcasm. “As stated,” it says, “this is a case involving party politics. The office contested for by the party litigants is a small ( one —that of chief stoker of the boilers in the state house casement. But as it carries with it a half dozen jobs for coal-heaving statesmen, who have earned a reward for campaign servise in their respective wards, it is, of course, political.” The petition bases its claims to a rehearing on the intention of the legislature in passing the law providing for appointments, on the contradictory wording of the law and on the fact that it had never ben enforced according to the decision of the courts until the present case arose. o RESOLUTIONS Resolutions, Olive Rebekah Lodge, No. 86, D. of R.: We, the committee, appointed to draft resolutions of respect to our departed sister, Rosanna Buhler,whose death occurred Aug. 23, 1909, would respectfully submit the following: Whereas, It has pleased God in his all wise providence to nail from us to His realm above, the spirit of our sister, while we bow in humble submission to the divine will, it is with feeling that we bear testimony to her good qualities, and express in this manner our deep sorrow, and while we mourn the untimely decease, our heartfelt sympathy goes out to her sorrow stricken children, which to them is an irreparable loss. May they be tenderly cared for and sustained by the One who tempers the wind of the shorn lambs Resolved, That we extend to her sorrowing children our heartfelt sympathy in this their time of trouble and commend them to the infinite love and mercy of God. Resolved, That our charter be draped in mourning for thirty days and that these resolutions be spread on the minutes of this lodge, and a copy of these resolutions be sent to the children of our deceased sister, and also be published in our city papers. SADIE MILLER, LILLIAN BAUMGARTNER, DELLA HARRUFF, Committee.

Foleys orinoLaxauve i ioleyskidneypiiis son Stomach Taouscc and Cohstipatioi. Bacaachc Kiohcviaxo Blaooao Bosse opera house — ONE NIGHT ONLy FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER, 3d. The Hilarious Rural Comedy A Pair of Country Kids Q* ' The Realistic Explosion. The Wharf \ , , Scene. Rescue from the Waves. The A Country Dance. The Lively Kids. The vLL Funny Old Folks. > > & A Scenic Production Complete. 10 Great Specialties and Musical Numbers. A Guaranteed New and First Class Production. PRICES: 25, 35 and 50 Cts. Seats on sale at the usual place. Undertaking At 7VI On roe Liechty Brothers and Biere have opened an Undertaking Establishment at Mfonroe and they are now ready to re- 1 | ceive calls at any time—day or night. j If In Need Os Cement, Coal or Building Material of any kind, do not fail to call upon Leichty Brothers at Monroe before buy- » ing. Their prices are right. The Monroe, Ind., General Hardware Dealers.