Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 31 March 1904 — Page 6

The tinners are busily engaged today in putting on some of the fancy work on the StudabakerAllison block. The masonry work is fast nearing completion and in a few weeks more the building will be ready for occupancy. The Portland Sun put out an extra Saturday giving a full account of the terrible floods in that community. The sheet was a credit to any office and Editor McKay proved his ability to meet with adverse circumstances. Issuing a paper under the conditions that exsited at Portland Saturday certainly proves the calibre of any office. Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Wertzberger of Elwood are in the city the guests of his parents on Third street. They left the first of this week for Tecumsee, Oklahoma Territory •where he will take up the management of a fruit farm owned by his father in law. He will also keep himself posted concerning the run of affairs here by receiving the Democrat. James McClary of VanWert was in the city Friday making all final arrangements whereby he will go into the hay business here. For several weeks this gentleman has had Miles Tindall going over the county and buying up hay for him, which will be delivered at a date when he is able to take care of it. It is also rumored that Mr. McClary is at this time trying to buy the outfit formerly owned and operated by L. A. Henning near the Grand Rapids tracks, and to go into the grain and hay business there on a large scale. Mr McClary is now getting ready to move his family to this place and make this his future home. He comes well recommended and should do a thriving business L. A. Henning, ex-hay and coal merchant went back to Auburn at 1:30 Thursday being accompanied by Sheriff Weeks, who arrested him at the Henning office at four o'clock Friday afternoon on a charge of grand larceny and obtained money under false pretenses. The arrest is the result of a j.r ind jury indictment. Mr. Henning’s business transactions in Decatur were straight forward and honest and the community can scarcely believe him guilty of wrong doing. However the officer took him says the feeling against the prisoner is very strong among Dekalb conuty farmers who claim he bought their hay and refuses to pay for it after same had been shipped, going into bankruptcy to avoid them. They have organized against him and employed two of the best lawyers in the state to assist the prosecutor. It is said the evidence against the defendant is very strong and the farmers will make a determined effort to punish him to the fullest extent. H. F. Hise, a special agent of the department of commerce and labor, the new government bureau recently created of which George B. Cortelyou is at the head is in the gas belt collecting statistics relative to the number of foreigners who are confined in the penal and charitable institutions. Mr. Hise is connected with the imigration bureau of the department of commerce and labor, and it is believed that his present trip over the country is to gather material to be used in legislating against the wholesale admission of undesirable classes of foreigners. Mr. Hise called on several people and was able tc secure much valauble information. The records as now kept show a man’s birthplace and jther information. While the agent is securing any information jossible it is his purpose to also nake arrangements for the keeping >f the records, as the government nay want them. They ask that all >risoner’s birthplaces be given, and f a foreigner whether or not he is laturalized. He paid a visit to all he institutions while here. The overnment agent will visit the tils and prisons in the state and is report will show just the permtage of foreigners among the risoners. According to Hise, the iporting of immigrants into this mntry at New York is something larming. While some of them will ake good citizens the majority them are lowest type of men and omen. Ninety out of every indred men are laborers. Hise <es not say what the purpose of , B report is, but it is strongly intilted that on the figures returned himself and other special agents attempt will be made to frame w and better imigration laws.

The price of wheat is again steadily increasing and in a few more days will sell again at one dollar. Wheat today at Chicago sold for 96 cents and at Toledo for $1.03. This steady increase in the past week will undoubtedly mean dollar wheat and farmers who were so lucky as to retain their wheat may in a few days get a handsome price for the same. The old St. Marys river at this time is the highest that it has been for the last twenty five years and seems to be at present at a stand still. The lowlands surrounding are all overflowed and water has backed up as far as Steele's Park and part of this place is under water. In all probability the water w ill commence to recede in a few days and all future danger will be over. Reports are coming in from along the line concerning the damage that the water has done and farmers will be greatly relieved when the river once more assumes its natural course. On Easter Monday evening April 4th, the C. Y. M. S. Club of this city will hold their third annual Easter ball at their club rooms in the New Studabaker block and from the program prepared it will be one of the swellost society events that has ever been given in this city by any local organization. The boys have so far issued over one hundred invitations and contempalting a fine crowd and a good time. The music will be furnished by True Frist e's rag time orchestra and this a lone should offer some inducements. The boys of this club have a reputation of being fine entertainers and always doing things up in style, but on this occasion they will endeavor to out do all former and like occasions and are not sparing any time or money to make it a success. Should you prove to be among the lucky number in receiving an invitation you should not fail to accept it, and give yourself one evening’s enjoyment and be royally entertained Two large new engines passed through here Thursday on the Clover Leaf enroute to St. Louis where they will be put in use. The engines are of a large and modern type and will "have a capacity of pulling a very heavy train of vesti bule and baggage coaches. The Clover Leaf company have gone to the expense of buying ten of the monsters to be used on their road this summer for the main purpose of hauling their fast trains with through passengers to the St. Louis World’s Fair, which commences in May and with the Clover Leaf having a direct line into the World’s Fair city their passenger traffic will be unusually heavy. Hence the need of buying new engines for their special service. The clover Leaf officials have come to the con elusion that they will not be out done by any other road running into St. Louis this summer and it is their purpose and intent to have the finest passenger service that is available and everything modern will be used to make up the conveniences on these trains. A special tme card will be issued by the road directing how these trains shall run and giving them the right of way over every other passenger on the road, thus insuring to the traveling public fast time from any point along their line into St. Louis. Agents Wanted.—For the thrilling, sensational book and wonderful seller ‘T‘he Chicago Theatre Disaster.” 400 pages, memorial volume full of startling illustrations, stories of marvelous escapes, heoric rescues, list of 600 dead, etc. Price 31.50. Only book. Tremendous seller for agents. 37.00 a day average, country or town. Send 12 cents postage for fine outfit, terms and instructionsand make money fast. C W. Stanton Co., 325 Dearborn street Chicago, 111. 48 “DO IT TO-DAY.” The time-worn injunction, “Never put off ’til to-morrow what you can do to-day,” is now generally presented in this form: “Do it to-day!” That is the terse advice we want to give you about that hacking cough or demoralizing cold with which you have been struggling for several days, perhaps weeks. Take some reliable remedy for it today—and let that remedy be Dr. Boschee’s German Syrup, which has been in use for over thirty-five years. A few doses of it will undoubtedly relieve your cough or cold, and its continued use for a few days will cure you completely. No matter how deepseated your eough, even if dread consumption has lungs, German Syrup will surely effect a cure —as it has done before in thousands of apparently hopeless cases of lung troublt. New trial bottles, 25c; regular size, 75c. At all druggists.

For Sale—Gasoline engine. Enquire of J. S. Lower or C. D. Kunkle secretary fair association. 35tf If it’s billions attack, take Chamberlain’s stomach and liver tablets and a quick recovery is certain. For sale by The Holthouse Drug Co. Wanted at Once—An ambitious and energetic man over 21 years of age to work himself up to a good salaried position with a large company. Answer in own hand wt ting. P. 0. Box 234, Decatur, Ind. ts For sale or trade.—l have some very good farms for sale or exchange. Also a list of city property for sale at a bargain, Money to loan on farm or city property at five per cent. P. K. Kinney, the new Studabaker block, Decatur, Indiana. 48 m 6 I Horns 0$. —1 have for sale a few double standard Poll Durham bull calves out of my herd bull Good Luck If you want a sure dehorn call and look at my stock. C. D. Porter, Ge- ! ueva, Ind. 49w4 1 Walhaila, N. D., March 15, 1898. 'For loss of appetite, general debility j and convalescent after any illness, I there is nothing so beneficial as Dr. J. ' H. McLean’s Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier. I am enjoying vigorous health from its use E. A. Sharpe. For sale by The Holthouse Drvg Co. It Saved His Leg.—P. A. Danforth, of LaGrange, Ga., suffered for six months with a frightful running sore on his leg; but writes that Bucklen s Arnica Salve wholly cured it in five days. For ulcers, wounds, piles, it’s the best salve in the world. Cure guaranteed. Only 25c. Sold by Blackburn & Christen, Druggists. For Sale.—Chester White hogs choice boar pigs farrowed March 1903. Sire, Tiptoe; dam, Whinrey Girl. Me also offer a few choice gilts. Our hogs are firstt-class. our prices reasonable. Call at the Fonner Stock Farm, one mile north of Decatur, Ind., and we will show you something that will please you, or address Smith, Ullman & Co.. R. R. No. 1, Decatur. Ind. 36tf Working Overtime. —Eight hour laws are ignored by those tireless, little workers Dr. King’s New Life Pills. Millions are alwavs at work, night and day, curing indigestion, bilhousness, constipation, sick headache and all stqj»«ch, liver and bowel troubles. Easifpleasant, safe, sure. Only 25c, at Buckburn & Christen’s drug store. Will You Do This. We ask you to try Dr. Marshall’s Lung Syrup on these conditions. After using one bottle, and you find that it has not proved beneficial, return the same to the druggist you bought it of, and he will return the money paid. You cannot ask for more. This medicine is the best lung syrup on the market, and for lagrippe or influenza it has no superior. Will you give this cough syrup a trial? You will certainly not regret it. Price 25c. 50c and 31. By Druggists. More Riots. Disturbances of strikers are net nearly as grave as an individualdisorder of the system. Overwork, loss of sleep, nervous collapse, unless a reliable remedy is immediately employed. There’s nothing so efficient to cure disorders of the liver or kidneys as Electric Bitters. It’s a wonderful tonic, and effective nervine and the greatest all around medicine for run-down systems. It dispels nervousness, rheumatism and neuralgia and expels malaria gems. Only 50c. and satisfaction guaranteed by Blackburn & Christen. Tragedy averted “Justin the nick of time our little boy was saved” writes Mrs. W. Watkins of Pleasant City, Ohio. “Pneumonia had played sad havoc with him and a terrible cough set in besides. Doctors treated him, but he grew worseevery day. At length he tried Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption and was saved. He’s now sound and well.” Everybody ought to know, it’s the only sure cure for Coughs, Colds and all Lung dis eases. Gauranteed by Blackburn & Christen, Druggists. Price 50c and 8100. Trail bottles free. Strawberry Plants. Cheapest and best. Send postal request for free treatise on strawberry culture and catalogue of best varities of plant. A. Sibert, Rochester, Ind. 32d2w6t. Farmers Take Notice. Are your hogs and chickens healthy ' and in as thriving condition as you would like to have them, if not, feed them Egyptian Hog and Chicken Cholera Remedy. Put up in gallon and half gallon cans. For sale at the old reliable drug store, Smith, Yager & Falk. 48tf Notice. Notice is hereby given that the firm of Kern, Beeler & Co.; composed of the undersigned members, has been dissolved. All notes and accounts due said firm are left with Erwin & Erwin, attorneys, for collection, where they must be paid at once. John E. Kern. Edwin D. Beeler. Feb. 24, 1904. Harry Hirsch. Low Rate of Interest. Money loaned at five per cent, interest, payable annually or semi-an-nually, at option of borrower, with privilege of partial payments at any interest paying time. No delay in making loans. F. M. Schirmeyer, Decatur, Ind. 9tf

THE GREAT SOUTHWEST. MANY SEEKING HOMES WHERE LANDS ARE CHEAP AND CLIMATE IS MILD. Low Rates for Homeseekers and Colonists Twice a Month. Many farmers in the Northern and Eastern states are selling their high I | priced landsand locating in the South-I i wes t—in Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. Manv who have been I unable to own their homes in the older I country are buying land at the low prices prevailing in the new country 35, SlO, 315 per acre and up. These lands are mostly cut-over timber lands, some of them possessing a deep rich soil producing corn, wheat, oats, clover, cotton, fruit and vegetables. Well improved farms are scattered throughout this country. Many places with small clearings and some improvements can be bought very cheap. Our descriptive literature gives a fairly good idea of this country. It tells about the soil, crops, climate, people, schools, churches, water and health. It contains maps showing locations of counties, towns, railways and streams, and gives names and addresses of real estate dealers in the towns. Reduced rates for homeseekers and colonists are in effect first and third Tuesdays of each month, byway of St. Louis, Cairo or Memphis and the Cotton Belt Route. Let us send you our literature and quote you rates. Address E. W. Laßeaume, Gen. Pass, and Ticket Agent, Cotton Belt Route, St. Louis, Mo. Grand Rapids & Indiana. In effect Feb. 1. TRAINS NORTH. No. s—Leaves Decatur 1:1« a m •• *• Fort Wayne 2:10 am *• Kalamazoo. s:lsam Arrives Grand Rapids 6:45 am “ •• Petoskey 2:f>o pm “ •• Mackinaw City 4:15 pm No, 7—Leaves Decatur 8:00 a m Fort Wavne 8:50 am “ •• Kalamazoo 12:15 pm Arrives Grand Rapids 1:50 pm “ - Petoskey 11:00 pm “ “ Mackinaw City 11:20 pm No. 3—Leaves Decatur 3:13 pm Fort Wayne 4:20 pm “ Kalamazoo B:o6pm Arrives Grand Rapds 10:00 pm TRAINS SOUTH, No. 6—Leaves Decatur 2;CO a m ” “ Portland 3:02 a m •• Arrives Richmond 4:35 a m “ *• Cincinnati 7:15 am Indianapolis... 6:35a m “ “ St. Louis 1:42 pm “ “ Louisville 10:05 pm No. 12-Leaves Decatur 7:l4am •• •* Portland 8:15 a m “ Arrives Richmond 9:42 am “ •* Cincinnati 12:20 pm “ “ Indianapolis 12:10 pm “ “ Sc. Louis 7:00 pm No. 2—Leaves Decatur 1:15 pm “ “ P irtland 2:15 p m *• Arrives Richmond 3:40 pm “ •* Cincinnati 5:55 pm No. 30—Leaves Decatur 7:51 p m “ Arrives Portland, 9:03 pm No. 16—Leaves Decatur... .1 7:15 p m •• “ Portland 8:15 pm “ Arrives Richmond 9:45 pm “ “ Indianapjlis 11:59 pm No. s—Dai y. Sleeping car to Mackinaw City. No.7—Daily to Fort Wayne. No. 7—Daily except Sunday. Parlor car to Mackinaw City. N). 3—Daily except Sunday. Parlor car to Grand Kapids. No. 6—Daily. Sleeping car to Cißcinnatl. No. 2-Daily except Sunday. Parlor car to Cincinnati. No. 16—Sunday only. J. Bryson. Agt. C. L. Lock wood. G. P. A. Gr. Rapids Mich.

‘.■X H I i i t~»fAA n-»l I fl ! tai ■\'MoO#' Wfa«^u£iu^,-' ■‘fcwfgjHMsagS EAST. No. 6. TheComm’l Traveler, dally. 5:25 a. n. No. 2. Mail, daily, except Sunday... 11 -50 a. m No. 4. Day express, daily 6:43 p. m No. 22, Local freight 1:10 a. m WEST, No. 3 Day express daily 5:25 a. m No. 1. Mail, daily except Sunday... .11:25 p. m No. 5. TheComm’l Traveler, daily.. 9:19 p.m No. 23. Local freight 12:05p. n ■' ® RAILROAD CHICAGO & ERIE. In effect Dec. 27, 1903. WEST, No 7—Express, dally 3:00a m No 3—New York and Chicago Limited through coach Columbus and Chicago daily 12:44 p m No 13—Wells Fargo Express except Monday 5:43 p m No 21—Marlon-Huntington Acc’m.. 10:10am EAST No B—Vestibule Limited for N Y 2:43 a m No 22—Marion and Columbus except Sundav 6:58 a m No 4—New York and Boston Limited through coaches Columbus and Chicago . 3:21 p m No. 14. dally except Sunday, and carries passengers bdtween Hammond and Marlon. No. 13 will not carry baggage. 3 and 4 bas -trough coach Columbus to Chicago. Lake Erie & Western Time card from Bluffton, Ind. SOUTHBOUND No. 41—Daily excpt Sunday 7:15 am No. 19—Daily except Sunday 11:57a m No. 35—Daily except Sunday 5:25 pm No 41 runs through to Indianapolis without change, arriving 10:30 a in No. 42 leaves Indianopolis at 7:00 a m. Kuns through without change, arriving at Bluffton 10:35 a m No, 41 and 42 run via Muncie & Big 4 route PARKER’S hair balsam Jel Clean? 3 and beautifies the hair. Promote® a luxuriant growth. MUUr.- Never Fails to Restore Gray - Ha * r to its Youthful Color. va.p diseases & hair falling, i axative firomo Quinine ores a Cold in One Day, Grip in 2 Days

harness We have and are complete in this line, and €verlh:ig made to order on short notice. Repair Up and Oil Up Now is’the time, and we ’Jiave the best oil, or will oil and repair for you cheaper than you can do it ourself, REMEMBER US FOR AWNINGS Don’t? forget our drawing. Five fine prizes, Ticket with ever 50c pur chase. See bills. H. S. Porter

ROY ARCHBOLD DENTIST I. O. O. F. BLOCK ’Phones — Office 164, residence 245. MERRYMAN & SUTTON. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DECATUR. IND. Office—Nos. 1, 2. 3, over Adams Co. Bank. We refer, by permission to Adams Co. Bank BCHURGER & SMITH, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Notar’es. Abstracters, Real Estate Agents. Money to Loan. Deeds and Mortgages written on short notice. Office in Allison block second story, over Frlstoe's Smoke House, Decatur. Indiana. J, Q. Neptune. D. D. 8. C. E. Neptune, D. D. 8 ’Pnoae 23. ’Phone 236. Neptune Brothers, DENTISTS. Rooms 1,2, 3,4, Spangler Building, Decatur, Indiana. Office ’Phone 207. Lady Attendant English, German and Swiss spoken. FRED REP P;E RT, Sale Crier and Auctioneer. DECATUR, ... INDIANA Speaks English.FGerman, Swiss and Low. German. MANN & CHRISTEN, Architects. Are prepared to do any kind of work in their line. Persons contemplating building can save times, trouble and money by consulting them. Office— MANN A CHRISTEN, Bowers Block, Monroe st. Architect l i nin; & p a t t o n ’.Contractors and Builders Slate Rooters and Galvanized Gutters. Shop, Corner Bugg and Market Streets. Linn &JPatton. AUCTIONEER For Good Service See L. H. GAGE (Speaks German and English) Auctioneer and Sale Crier. Rates 84.00 Sales over 8500 80c per 8100. Leave address at Berne Witness Office, Berne, Ind.

J. D. HALE, DIALER IN Seeds, H-ay, Wool, Oil Salt, Goal, Lirne, Gerrjeqt Fertilizers. Office and retail store store southeast cor p er of Second and Jefferson streets Your patronage solicited. 1 AMOS P. BEATTY ATTORNEY AT LAW And Notary Public Pension claims prosecuted. Odd Fellows building. I

D. D. HELLER & SON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Offica over Blackburn & Christen’s drug store DORE B. ERWIN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office.—Corner Monroe and Second streets General practitioner. No charge for consul, tation H. O. WELLS. M. D., SPECIALIST. 723 CLINTON STREET, FORT WAYNE. Cures Piles. Fistula. Fissure. Stricture of the Rectum. Itching. Bleeding. Ulceration. Constipation and all diseases of the Rectun.. Also Rupture. Dr. Wells will be at ihe Murray hotel, in the forenoon, and at the Shamrock hotel in Geneva in the afternoon, on the first Tuesday in every month. In order to introduce his painless treatment, he will give one treatment free to ail who call to see him. np» 0 Dr. Williams’ Indian Pile L will cure Blind. | and Itching ■•Piles. It absorbs the tumors, allays the itching at once, acts as a poultice, gives instant reDr. Williams’ Indian Pile Ointt is prepared for Piles and ItchJ private parts. Every box is wurrauied. By druggists, by mail on receipt of price. 50 cents and SI.OO. Wli LIAMS MANUFACTURING CO.. Props., Cleveland. Ohio. Nachtrleb & Fuelling. DOCTOR E. J, Beardsley, General Practice and Surgery. ®,P ec >iU Attention given to Eye. Ear Nose, Throat and Chronic Dieeases. Expert in Fitting Glasses. Uro roughly equipped for treating Eye. Ear Throat and Catarrhal cases. S£iJ£?T, answere<l ' or night. Ob r ICE—over postoffice. RESIDENCE—cor. Monroe and Ninth sts Office Hours--9 to 11 a. m. 2 to 4p. m.

$250.000. $250,000 to loan on improved farms at lowest rate of interest, we can place your loan at a lower rate of interest and less expense than another Agency in the city. The Decatur Abstract & Loan Company. Rooms 3 and 4, Studabaker Block.