Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 2 June 1904 — Page 5

ffPISTOL'S J ! smoke I House I POR ALL KINDS OF ■ Tobacco I ... Cigars .... I We have more Brands to Se-B lect from than any house I in the City. 3 al fristoe. l East side 2d St.. opp. court house

The fire escape for the AllisonStudabaker block have arrived and will at once be put up on the south side of the building. Come to our social Thursday afternoon at Miss Hattie Moore's Cor. Madison and Ninth streets. Ladies Aid Society of Presbyterian church. Word comes from Winchester that Mr. Hopkins, who was dangerously ill with heart trouble, is somewhat better and that there is hope for his recovery.— Berne Witness. Rev. McCarty’ [of Hoagland, will preach a memorial sermon at the Alpha church next Sunday at ten o'clock. The Grand Army and Sons of Veterans are invited to attend A letter from Eugene Christen who is at Hot Springs, Arkansas says that he had been very sick for a week past but was feeling better again and believes he will get along allright. Old Soldiers, W. R. C-, Sons of Veterans and Spanish war Veterans should remember that they are invited to attend services at Alpha church Sunday, Rev. McCarty will preach. The Womens’ Home Missionary Society of the M. E. church will meet at two o’clock tomorrow afternoon with Mrs. Dan Sprang. This is the day for the election of officers and a good attendance is desired. The board of directors of the Great Northern Indiana Fair association will meet at Sheriff Butler’s office,*in this city, Saturday, June 11, to transact business of importance. Every director is requested to be present. The Adams county medical society which was to have met this evening at the office of Dr. H. E. Keller has been postponed until tomorrow evening at eight o'clock on account of the entertainment at St. Mary’s Catholic church tonight, Arrangements for the ninth annual commencement of the St. Jo. seph High School are being completed and the event will occur Monday evening June 20th at Bosses opera house. The graduating class includes Misses Emma Terveer and Celia A. Kinney and Mr. Edward F. Berling. Invitations will be sent out within a week or ten days. Marsh Burdg arrived last night from Franklin. Ohio, where he was on a business mission, and while there was bitten by an insect or poisoned in some manner so that his hand is badly swollen and is in terrible shape. Dr. Miller dressed his hand upon his return and is of the opinion that blood poison is setting in. Marsh is suffering a great deal of pain. The case of Mayer vs Glendening et al, demanding SSOO is at trial and from present appearances will continue several days, as a large number of witnesses have been subpoenaed. The jury in the case includes William Breiner, James Steele, J. D. Winans, Chester Buhler, George Cramer, William Hilgeman, James A. Sprague, Abraham Debolt, Fred Weiland, Jacob Magley, JohnChire and P. D. Friste. An old Amish mtin named Musser, from near Berne was in town Saturday and told of a new graft which is being worked in this community. It seems some fellow with plenty of nerve is going through the country representing himself to be Dr. J. S. Boyers of this city. He called on Mr. Musser last Sunday and arranged to meet him today when he was to begin treatment. It is needless to say that the fellow is a fake pure and simple.

Mrs. Gart Shober received word yesterday that her sister Miss Fanme Winch who is living in Indian-1 apolis at present had met with a severe accident. She arose in the ngiht and started to go to a window of the room to close it without turning on the light, and as she passed under the chandelier her eye was caught by a piece of wire that hung there and the lid was torn badly and some injury done to the eye ball. The specialist in attendance cannot tell how serious the results may be.—Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. Drayman Abe Wahli is the loser of his Western horse and good work harness since Thursday night when it was stolen from his barn. Mr. Wahli had been running two drays and had a good team on each wagon, but the loss of one horse and harness puts him in bad shape. On Thursday he hauled for the Uncle Tom show people and had made arrangements with them to again do the hauling after the show was over. For that purpose he left the horse stand harnessed in the barn and as he arrived there to hitch up, his horse with harness was gone. Suspicion is resting on boys belonging to the show party who it is said, disappeared during the ! show. The horse is branded and one ear shorter than the other. Later: Report came from Peterson that the horse was seen there.— Berne Witness. Captain of Erie police Fred Ostenrider arrested two young fellows in the vicinity of the Erie transfer house Monday afternoon on the charge of trespass and vagrancy. Both denied the charge, claiming they were employes of the Wild West Show. Ostenrider, not satisfied with their story, accompanied the fellows to the show grounds where the manager was consulted. When the manager denied that they were employes one of the young fellows struck at the detective, then jerked away and was soon lost among the tents and the crowd. The other of the two was brought to this city and locked up. In police court this morning the fellow gave his name as Chas. Hendricks, of Decatur, and entered a plea of not guilty, but by the evidence produced in the cross examination he was judged guilty and fined $5 and costs.—Huntington Herald. Fire was narrowly averted Tuesdayevening at the home of Mrs. Victoria Hill on Mercer street she had early in the evening filled her kitchen stove oven with damp kindling wood and left the gas turned in the stove, she then called upon one of her neighbors and stayed for several hours returning home about nine o'clock and on opening the door a cloud of smoke rushed out in her face almost stifling her. She called for assistance and Frank Schimeyer who was passing along on the opposite side of the street rushed over and forced his way into the kitchen turned off the gas and proceeded to throw out the burning wood which had caught fire from tho heat of the stove. A few buckets of water soon extinguished the fire. The floor was burned in several places as was the woodwork and had Mrs. Hill not arrived home just at the time she did, a different story would have been told today. The Clover Leaf has inaugurated a radical change in the management of its passenger and freight business. Briefly the company has decided to operate the passenger and freight departments under seperate heads, and circulars sent out announced the appointment of W. L. Ross to the position of general passenger agent, with headquarters at Toledo. Mr. Ross comes from the Illinois, Indiana & lowa, which road he has been serving as a di vision passenger agent with headquarters at Streator, 11l In fact, he was with that road while President T. P. Shouts now President of the Clover Leaf was the chief executive of the “Three I’s.” Mr. Ross is said to be well equipped for the duties of his new position, and is regarded as the right man to oarry out the aggressive policy to be adopted by the Clover Leaf passenger department. The policy of operating the passenger and freight departments under one head was inaugurated under the regime of B. F. Norton who became president of the*Clover Leaf company immediately after its re-organization some years ago. Since that time T. J. Cook has dene double duty as general freight and passenger agenS»

Mrs. Fred Witte aged sixty five i years died at nine o’clock Tuesday I night at her home just north of Freidheim after having suffered a very severe attack of heart fail urf, Mrs. \V itte, prior to this time had been in the best of health and had on Tuesday morning done her usual house work and other duties per-tain-ng to her farm life and was stricken early in the evening, the attack of which she could not succumb. She was an old resident of this county having come to this country when but a meje girl and had resided at her late home for j thirty five years. She was a member of the Freidheim Lutheran church and was a conscientious worker in its behalf. The community has lost a gOvd neighbor, and the church a faithful member. The funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at two o'clock at the ; Friedheim Lutheran church the Rev. Pruese officiating and inter- ! raent will be made at the Freidheim j cemetery. She leaves six sons to I mourn their loss. Besides twenty five Decatur i scholars who received diplomas which admits them to any high j school in Iniaana without further examination there were fifty six | fiom the various township, and ■ town schools a total of eighty one. Etta Brandyberry who had the highest grade 95 per cent is the daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Simon Brandyberry. Miss Leia Myers grade was 93 per cent. The names of those students outside of Decatur who got diplomas were as follows: Union township, Edna Heming, Madge Barkley,Mabel Magner. RootTownship Emma Magley, Will D. Evans, Florence Kunkle and Helen J Evans. Preble township, Pecca Trenary, and Irven F. Case. Kirkland township, Velma Daniels and Margaret Beery. Washington township, Allie Bender, Ray Smith, ! James I. Keif er, Maggie Faurot and Joseph Faurot. Blue Creek: Township, Bertha Ferguson, Charles Bevington, and Forest Danner.Monroe township Mae Mock, O. V. Graham, Stella Duer, Evie Karschbaum, Rinda Johnosn, Golde Nofisinger, Pearl Ray, and Clarence Smith. French township Edna V. Engle, Simon Schindler. Hartford Township, Eddie Opliger, Bessie Baumgartner, Robert SJawson, Nellie Funt, Martha Ashliman and Eddie Addlor. Wabash township, Hazel Macklin, Ida Schenbeck R. Hirschy, Menno Hirshy, Clayton Smith, Arthur Farlow and Rufus Pierry. Jefferson township, Alty M. Rumple, Frank I Engle, Alta Ford. Katie Ford. Berne Corporation, George Witt wer, Ida Sprunger Noah Gilliom, Tilman Soldner, Bessie Sprunger and Emma Bixler. Charles Schepherd Win. F. Egley, Julia Wegmiller and Floyd Teeple. The city council met in special sessionTuesday evening upon call of Mayor Coffee for the purpse of accepting the contract of the new boilers. The purchasing committee reported that they had contracted with A. Vancamp for the new boiler who is to furnish some of Atlas makes for $2092 to be delivered at 'the water works station by June 10th and to be paid for by January 15th. The contract was approved by a full vote of the council. The committee was authorized to contract for moving the boilers from the depot to the city plant. Mayor Coffee then presented the names of Samuel Frank and Joel Reynolds as appointees to the office of night police to take the place of Amos Fisher and Jacob Mangold and asked that they be placed on the payroll Attorney L. C. De Voss representing Amos Fisher objected but a motion for the approval of the new appointments carried unanimously. I Councilman Teeple then moved that i the salaries of the council be in- ■ creased from SIOO per annum $l5O i which was carried and a resolution fixing the salaries of the city officers as follows was adopted, all voting aye: Mayor $300; City Clerk, $350! Treasurer $300; Marshal S6OO City councilmen, each $150; City Attorney $300; street commissioners, $550; City Civil Engineer $480; secretary Board of 1 Health $100; chief of fire department $75. The new policemen ' assumed their duties last evening. The new boilers are expected to arrive this week and will immediately be placed in position, work in the foundation for some having begun several days ago. As soon as these new boilers are ready tor operating the plant will be ready I for all emergencies, the electric light service will be better, though i it has been wonderfully good when the old machinery is considered. A day current will be operated.

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Otis Judy of Genevans the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Al Burdg. Alma Case will arrive from St. Louis tomorrow and will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Case at Magley. Photographer Elmer Moser has taken an order from the Old Adams County bank for an enlarged pic ture of their ex-official and coworker Judge Studabaker. The picture is to be high grade sepia and will be a work of art, bearing the guarantee Mr Moser whose work is always first class. The picture will be placed in the private offiec of the bank. People & Holthouse this atfernoon received word from Washington D. C. stating that their firm had received the contract from the government to handle all mail between the depots and the Post Office for one year, their bid being the lowest one received. This is certainly a nice contract and one this firm is proud of and they will at once order a new mail wagon so as to handle the govenment matter more easily and without any delay whatevre. The contract price is stated to be $750.00. Nat Popkin the genial artist received a letter today from his wife at New York City stating that Sadie his three year old daughter was run over last week by a heavily loaded wagon while playing in the street and had her right leg broken between the knee and the hip. But that she was now resting quite well and all danger was passed. She further stated that in all probability the whole family would arrive here by Saturday of this week. They will occupy the residence of Mrs. Theodore Smith on Fifth street. Summer outings in Wisconsin Over a hundred summer resorts located on the Wisconsin Central Ry. between Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Ashland, offers to the summer tourists all attractions in the way of rest, comfort and recreation. The hotels are modern and splendidly equipped for the business. Waukesha, Waupaca, Fifield and a score of other resorts are famous. Beautifully illustrated booklots desejipjive of this region will be mailed upon application to, Jas. C. Pond, Gen. Pass. Agt. WiS? Cent. Ry., Milwaukee. Wis.

A. SAFE DIET RULE. Ent thr Smallest Amount of Food That Will Preserve Health. How shall one determine how much food to eat? Too much mystery -has been thrown about this subject. Let your sensations decide, it must be kept in mind that the entire function of digestion and assimilation is carried on without conscious supervision or concurrence. It should be entirely unfelt and unknown, excepting by the feeling of bien etre which accompanies and follows its normal accomplishment. Satiety is bad. It implies a sensation of fullness in the region of the stomach, and that means that too much food has been taken. The exact correspondence in a healthy animal between the appetite and the amount of food required is extraordinary. As a rule, the meal, unless eaten very slowly, should cease before the appetite is entirely satisfied, because a little time is required for the outlying organs and tissues to feel the effects of the food Jiat has been ingested. If too little baa oeen taken, it is easy enough to make It up at the next meal, and the appetite will be only the better and the food more grateful. No one was ever sorry for having voluntarily eaten too little, while millions every day repent having eaten too much. It has been said that the great ■csson homeopathy taught the world was this—that whereas physicians bad been in the habit of giving the patient the largest dose he could stand, they have been led to see that their purpose was better subserved by giving him the smallest dose that would produce the desired effect. And so it is with food. Instead of eating, as most people unfortunately do, as much as they can, they should eat the smallest amount that will keep them in good health. —Roger S. Tracy in Century. THE MINISTER’S WIFE. She lias Her Trials and Sorrows, but Also Her Reward. The minister’s wife exercises the statesmanship necessary to maintain a well ordered and cultured home on a small income—a home constantly under inspection by the whole parish. She sets a fashion in becoming dress which tones up the taste of many of her parishioners whose husbands’ incomes are two or three times as large as the minister’s salary. She is the pastor and the actual head of the too numerous women’s and children’s organizations in the church, and she manages to keep most of the jealousies of their leaders from coming to the surface. She listens sympathetically to the confidences of the young women of the congregation, and the small wedding fees which occasionally fall into her lap are meager wages for all the time and thought she has given and the teas she has served to bring about these weddings—services which hei. neighbors may laugh at, but which are the most delicate and valuable of all

ministries wnen they issue m nappy homes. She knows the pains, the joys and the sorrows of motherhood, and she has strengthened the courage of many a shrinking wife faltering on the threshold of an unknown realm. When she has closed the eyes of the darling of her heart in the last sleep she goes out to cheer weary watchers by sick beds and to give her silent sympathy to mourners who will not be comforted. She holds her queenly way in poverty. trial and not seldom under unkind and unjust criticism, and as she grows older a light radiates from her patient face which moves discerning friends who otherwise would pity her to say, “Verily, she has her reward!”— Congregationalist. She Was* Too Enthusiastic. “Teaching to me," said an enthusiastic young schoolmistress, “is a holy calling. To sow in the young mind the seeds of future knowledge and watch them as they grow and develop is a pleasure greater than I can tell. I never weary of my work. My thoughts are only of”— “I am very sorry,” interrupted the young man to whom she was talking, “that you are so devoted to your profession, Miss Clara. I had hoped that some day I might have asked you—in fact, I called tonight—but I hardly dare go on, in the light of what you”— “You may go on. Mr. Smith,” said the young lady softly. “I am a little too enthusiastic at times perhaps.” She Hail to Forgive. Mrs. Winks—Mrs. Ayres and her husband have had a dreadful quarrel just because she gave him a letter to mail and be carried it around in his pockets for a week. Isn't it too silly of her? Mr. Winks—Maybe that would make you mad too. Mrs. Winks —Ob, .John, I wouldn’t lose my temper over a little thing like that. Mr. Winks—l'm glad to hear you say it. my dear. I just recall that I’ve still got that letter yotl gave me last Wednesday.—Philadelphia Press. Escaped Her Notice. “How did you like the way the minister animadverted upon our colloquialisms last Sunday?” asked Mrs. Oldcastle. “I didn’t notice it,” replied her hostess. “Me and Josiah were crowded out of our own pew and had to set white we couldn't when he wasn’t standin’ up.”—Chicago Record-Herald. The Spinster Aunt's Opinion. Carrie—Do you think a woman is justified in marrying a man she doesn't know? Aunt Jane—She certainly wouldn’t be justified in marrying a man she did know. —Boston Transcript. Children under ten shouldn't know when there is a moon, and people over seventy* houldn’t know except by the calendar.—Atchison Globe.