Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 9 November 1905 — Page 5

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A marriage license was issued Monday to John D. Tinkham and Sidie C. Lautzenheizer. The groom is twenty-two years old and the bride seventeen. W. K. Cross writes us from Newaygo, Michigan, that in that land of fruit, the prices are the highest they have been in years. Apples are scarce, way up in price and not very fancy, while potatoes are selling at eighty-five cents a bushel. Wednesday evening the Ist inst., at the M. E. parsonage, Bo io. occurred the wedding of Gus Smith and Nettie Archer, both of Pleasant Mills. These admirable young people have a large circle of friends who will wish them much happiness and prosperity in their wedded life. Lawrence Waring, who in the city over Sunday visiting relatives, returned last evening to his home in Decatur. He stated that his glove and mitten factory was working in first-class shape at this time and that orders were piled on «he book for some time to come.—Bluffton Banner. At 2:30 Thursday the jury in the case of Hurless & Brown vs Theodore Hendricks, suit to collect S3OO due on a clover huller, returned a verdict for the defendant. The first ballot was eleven to one for the defendant, but several hours were required to answer the seven interogatories. Rev. J. C. White was foreman of the jury.

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Mrs. Peter Gaffer received a letter Friday morning from Cardwell, Mo. from her sister, Mrs. Burt Mann, stating that her little daughter who had been seriously ill. is now on the road to recovery and was much improved. Mrs. Mann was unable to> accompany the remains of her husband here on account of the illness of the little one. Marriage licenses were issued Thursday to Nellie Picket, aged 19 and Frances Deriokson, aged twenty-one; also to Catrine Pipfer, aged thirty-one and Daniel O. Reinhard, aged thirty-three. The latter couple are from Vera Cruz. A license was also issued last evening to Rufus A. Flora, aged twentyfive and Ottilia Breohbulel, aged seventeen. J. W. Dickman the popular traveling man who represents the New York Grocery house of Richmond, and an ardent democrat, when he learned of the success of Dr. Richard Shsllinger, the democratic candidate for mayor, sent the following telegram: “Accept congratulations of the only democrat member of the council left of the last democratic administration.” Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 7—Arthur Bronier, charged with murdering his wife at Berea, this county, killed himself in the county jail Tuesday. He hanged himself, using his handkerchief and a sheet, which he fastened to the steam pipe in the same manner as did Albert Darwin yesterday. These two suicides have saved the county thousands of dollars in trials. Joe Clem ot Union township, had a sale at his farm Tuesday that furnished a few side issue s that were not printed on the bills. Two of the buyers present were Samuel J. Clem and Homer Costleman, and they succeeded in mixing up in an altercation that terminated m blows. Costleman knocked Clem a double-decked stiffener, that laid him out for a time. Friends of ' both paities took up the fracus ’ and for a time things looked oharry. Cool heads finally succeeded in clearing the atmosphere. Tuss. Clem appeared before Prosecutor Moran who has filed in Esquire Smith’s court an affidavit chargng and assault and battery, another affidavit charging provoke will be filed in the Adams circuit court. This was the day set by the order of court for the sale of the four acre tract of land located in the south part of town, and which ten years ago was leased to the Clover Leaf railway with the understanding that they establish a freight division in this city. The company only sustained a division here a short time, but as they had a ten year lease they held the land. Recently Hooper & Lenhart began a suit for Norman G. Lenhart to partition the ground and it was ordered sold at the office of Hooper & Lenhart to day. The land was appraied at $2 700 and up to noon no offer had been made. The four acres would make about twenty lots if platted and would be fairly good home sites. A corps of surveyors for the railroad were here a few days ago working on the ground and it was thought probable that the company would make an offer. If the land is not sold today ic will ba platted

A number of the friends of J. C. Johnston, who left today for Ohio, where he will engage in business for himself gave a little farewell banquet at Jacob Martin’s restaurant last evening in honor of Mr. Johnston and a fine time was had.

An Illinois editor printed the following: “The fellow who is courting a certain married lady had better leave town, as the husband is unto him.” The paper had not been out very long before every man had left except three old cripples and a man who had not read the paper. All persons who have persistently failed or refused to pay their doctor’s bills in the past are notified that their names will be placed upon a “dead beat” list at the next meeting of the Adams County Medical Society, and that hereafter they shall be refused all medical and sugical treatment, except for cash in advance, until they have settled their neglected accounts. dlw 1 Titus Ernst, the popular and well known custodian of the court house, was three score years old Tnesday, and in honor of the occasion he smoked a real cigar, the first in several years. His daughters surprised him with a big dinner and several valuable presents, and all together it was a pleasurable day Titus says a man only has a sixtieth birthday once in a lifetime and he means to make the most of it. Among the business transacted Tnesday morning in commissioners’ court, was the approval of the bond of John F. Laohot, county treasurerelect. The bond is for $200,000 and the names attached thereto makes it good for several times that amount. As stated, the document was duly accepted and now bears the endorsement of the county board of commissioners. Mr. Lachot will begin his duties on January Ist, next. Warren Baher, who lives on the Johnson farm south of town, had a narrow escape from serious in jury at noon Saturday. He was currying one of his horses when the animal kicked hijm, the hoof strixing Warren just over the left eye, and inflicting an ugly gash. A half inch lower and the blow would have knocked out the eye, while a half inch to the left would have struck the temple and might have proven fatal. An annunoement to be found elsewhere in this issue proclaims the fact that Dr. George and other financiers from Dayton. Ohio, will hold a meeting at Pleasant Mills on next Thursday evening, November 9, the objeot of which is to give them an opportunity to explain the intention of the Fort Wayne & Springfield Traction Co. They would like to have everyone in that vicinity present who is interested in the oomplet’on of the project. No doubt a large crowd will be present. J. B. Corson called at this office Thursday and insisted that we thank the hundreds of people who attended his big stock sale Tuesday. He is well satisfied and believes that every one who bought at the sale will be also. It was one of the most successful sales ever held in the county. Four head of horses, eleven cows, one bull, twelve calves and a bunch of sheep brought nearly $2,000. The reason is plain. Mr. Corson owned only high grade, full blooded stock and the bidders knew it. A large crowd was pres ent but everyone was given a good wholesome dinner and the sale was also a big happy reunion of friends.

The Bachelor Maids met Tuesday evening in regular social session with Miss May Niblick and a most enjoyable time was. lad. The event was turned into a masquerade affair and the members of the club all turned out in comic attire. Hearts was installed as the evening’s pasttime and for several hours the time was thus wiled away. Misses Dude Voglewede and Mayme Terveer captured the first prizes and Misses Agnes Schrock and May Holthoase te consolation prizes A three course luncheon was then served after w.hich Phographer Mo ser was [called and a flash light picure of the crowd was taken and at * late hour the club adjourned to meet next Tuesday evening with Miss Edith We-uhcff. Tfie outside guests ’of the club were Misses Vera Patterson, Agnes Schrock, May Holthouse, Kate Henneford, Clara Lange, and Justine Stineman of this city and Mrs. Ed-

News reached the city Monday from Columbus, Ohio, stating that the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Meyers had been gladdened by the arrival of a daughter, who has been christened Helen Elizabeth. Mrs. Meyers was formerly Miss Emma Jackson of this city. The Prudential Life Insurance Co., Monday, adjusted the claim upon the life of Wesley Logan, who was insured in that company. This makes the second claim that this company has settled in Decatur in the last few weeks, and prompt manner in which it settles its claims accounts for its great popularity. Johnson & Painter, the State street junk dealers, made a gruesome purchase one day last week in the shape of an over-box or “rough box.” It was bought from a man who built it 20 years ago, thinking that he had lived his allotted time. Failing to die within a reasonable length of time, he became disgusted and decided to “go west and grow up with the country.” In order to do that he sold off all his belongings, among them the over-box, which Johnson & Painter bought for 60c. The umber in the box is worth $3. — Willshire Herald.

Ed Ashbaucher, the barber, met with quite a seriou? accident Friday morning, which will keep him from performing his duties for several weeks to come. The accident happen'd while Ed was stropping his razor, preparatory to shaving a customer, the razor slipping and cutting his left hand in which he was holding the strop in a zizgag manner through the fleshy part of the hand. He hurried to;Dr. J. S. Coverdales office, where the hand was dressed, it taking three stitches to close up the wound. The accident, although very painful, will prove nothing serious. The will of the lite Sidney W. Cantwell, speaker of the last Indiana house of representatives, was filed in the circuit court Tuesday for probate, Mr. Cantwell was a practicing attorney. He was sucoessful at his profession and amassed a small fortune. His entire estate, including real estate, was bequeathed to his wife, Flora V. Cantwell, and she was also named as executor. The ’will was made July 29, 1905, shortly before he was taken to the hospital at Indianapolis to be operated on. Mr. Cantwell carried SSOOO [life insurance and his estate was valued at s2o,ooo—Hartford City Gazette. Conrad Casper Chronister, one of the oldest residents of the county, and a well respected citizen, passed away at the home on rural route number nine, east of this city, at Tuesday at sa. m., death resulting from hypertrophy of the prostrate gland, he being sick only fortyeight hours. He was born in Pennsylvania, October 18, 1827, being 78 years and 19 days old at the time of his death. He came to the county years ago from Pennsylvania and has lived here ever since He was an active church worker, having assisted in the erection of an edifice for the worship of God upon his farm. Funeral services will be held Thursday at the church, 1 p. m. which went by his name. Interment will be made at Bobo cemetery. He had numerous relatives and many friends in this city as well as elsewhere over the’county, who will hear with sincere regret of his sud den death. 4

According to an eastern scientist, who has made a study of forestry, the Indiana people who are desroying their Lombardy noplar trees in order to plant some other kind of trees for shade are doing a very wrong thing. He says that in a country where the timber is rapidly being annihilated for commercial purposes there should be some tall timber left to attract the lightning during severe electrical storms, as such a proceeding would protect many barns and houses from strokes of electric fluid which o late years does great damage in lovel countries. In this respect he states that there is no tree that is better for the purpose (than the Lombardy poplar which is just now under the ban. In some cities throughout the country the councils have legislated against this tree and it must be out down or dug up, and no more of them planted. The gentleman cite the faotTthat flfere is not a single instinoe on record where a house or barn was ever struck by lightning in the vicinity so a Lombardy or C Ambia "poplar

Mark Riker, the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Lew Riker, left Monday night for Rockford. 111., where he will enter the employ ct\his uncle, Ira Cutting, an 1 learn the merohantile business. If Mark will become as attentive to his.new vocation as he has been for several years to assisting his*father in the dray business, he will make a success of his new work—and we hope to hear of his prosperity amid his new surroundings.—Willshire Herald.

Local officers who have been in conference with Pinkerton detectives on the trail of the Ridgeville and Hagerstown bank robbers have faith that the robbers will be caught. However, from the information that they have received from the Pinkerton men they do not believe that any of the men caught in Kentucky are the right ones. The Pinkerton agency connects the robberies at Hagerstown and Rigdeville but is not going at all on the assumption that the men who did these two jobs are the ones that have been operating in Kentucky this week. They have some apparently strong knowledge of who the leader of the Rigdeville gang was and it is only a question now of locating him.—Portland Commercial-Review.

The following item sent out from Springfield, 111., will be of interest to those who have seen “Shine” Bates, the wild man of Wallace’s circus, whose experiences have been somewhat similar to this man’s. Dr Ryan was called to St John's hospital today to perform a strange operation, Charles Brown, a negro, who came here from Waycross, Gi, had two horns and a pair of tusks removed. Some time ago the man received an offer to travel with a show as a wild man and a silver plate was sewed beneath his scalp and two of hia teeth sawed off and tusks joined on them, which protruded four inches. The plate was put in place by Dr James Corbett of Pierson, Ga, and the dental work was done by Dr John Duge, of Waycross. Brown tired of being a wild man and decided to have his tusks and horns removed

Interest is growing in the Sunday school convention to be held here November 13-14 as the time approaches. It will be the greatest convention ever held in Berne. All the county papers have thoroughly advertised the convention in the way ot news items and consequently a large delegation of Sunday School woikers from all schools are expected. D. L. Tuttle, of Buffalo, and General Secretary E. A. Halpenny, of Indianapols, will be the principal speakers. Following is one of the many pro’s clippings Mr. Tutle has received, and reads in part as follows: “His subject was, “Hurry, hurry, you’ll have to hurry,” and the address sparkled and teemed with comm m sense, and was instructive as well as entertaining throughout its entire delivery. For nearly an hour Mr. Tuttle held the undivided at tention of the audience as he made point after point, illustrated by apt anecdotes and quotations, and was frequently interrupted by rounds of applause.” Hear him next Monday evening at the opening meeting of the convention.— Berne Witness.

Among the many events which have delighted Decatur society this season none have been more pleasant than the surprise given Thurs day evening byMiss Eleanor Forbing for her sister, Miss Rose Forbing, during which the latter’s engage- I ment to Mr. J. C. Johnston was I announced. The pretty Forbing I home was attractively arranged and decorated for the occasion and the guests included about twenty of Miss Rose’s most intimate friends. A session of euchre was indulged in, Misses Bert Voglewede and Nettie Smith being the luoky ladies and receiving as prizes a beautiful berry dish of cut glass and a pretty piece of hand painted china. The consolation awards were made to Misses Edna Craw ford and Dude Voglewede. A delicious luncheon was served in which each guest was presented with an envelope on which was written an appropriate verse and as Miss Eleanor readers, the guests screamed with delight, for it unfolded’the long-guarded secrethow Rose had found a man ", and announced the fact- that a wedding will occur soon. It was really a nappy evening and this agreement -cached by er cry.

Mrs. James Everett, aged twentytwo years died at the home of her husoand, James Everett, two and one half miles south of Monroe Thursday morning, at 4 o’clock,after an illness of several months’ duration, death resulting from dropsy and consumption. She was taken bedfast just a week ago, and from that time on gradually grew weaker until her demise occurred. The funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at two o’clock at the M E church at Monroe, Rev. J. A. Sprague conducting the same, and interment taking place in the Chaple cemetery. She leave s a husband, a nine months’ old daughter, father and mother, two sisters and two brothers to mourn their loss. Her death is indeed a sad one and her many friends are heartbroken. The remains ot Wesley A. Longan, who died Friday morning at the soldiers’ home at Marion, arrived Saturday over the Clover Leaf, and were taken to the home of Albert N. Sudduth, on East Elm street. The funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock from the Evangelical church, Rev. A. B. Haist officiating. Mr. Logan was sixty-three yeais old and lived here a number of years. For a long time he has been a sufferer from bowel trouble and paralysis, and these complications finally caused death. Five years ago ho went to Marion and entered the soldiers’ home, where he has since lived. He was a member of company C, 44th Indiana regiment during the civil war, and was a fearless soldier. His [children, who survive him, are John N. Logan, of Monroe; Mrs. Albert N. Silduth, of thisc’ty and Mrs. C. C- Edington, of Rockford, Ohio. The legislature of 1903 enacted a law providing for the election of road supervisors in all townships in this state. The date for the election was fixed for the second riaturdav after the first Monday in January, 1905, and an election for the same purpose was provided for every two years thereafter, the supervisors then elected to serve two years. The legislature of 1905 enacted a law for the election of road supervisor which provides that the qualified voters in each district of the several townships of the several counties of the state shall on the second Saturday after the first Monday in December, 1905, and every two years thereafter, elect a supervisor who shall hold his o ffice for a term of two years. Township trustees are puzzled to knew what they are going to do v.ith the surplus stock of supervisors. Those eleot]ed last January were elected for two years and they probably will insist that they are entitled to held the office for that length of time The fellows to be elected next December may insist upon taking up their duties at once and each road district will therefore have two road supervisors. Kokomo, Ind., Nov. 7—Miss Eliza Williams, the oldest unmarried woman in the United States, was 101 years ola Monday. She is confined to her bed with a crushed hip, the result of a fall a few days ago. Until this accident she was able to walk about with the assistance of her canes, and, the first to arise about the household, generally dressed herself unaided. Miss Williams did her own sewing until two years ago, when she was persuaded to give up anything of that kind, she being assured that she has done all that was to be expected of her. She performed all the ' duties of her household until five I years ago. Miss Williams is as j clear in mind as ever in her lifetime, and to prove that she was not growing childish committed a hymn to memory. She is now at the home of her favorite nephew, O. A. Somers, whom she taught his letters She fnade the journey to his home late in the summer from her home in Anderson, Ind., by carriage and rail. She had hoped to be able to return there soon, but probably will never be able to now. She has al ways prided herself that she never went with the same man twice in her life. She received one proposal. An admiral obtained permission call on her once and 1 proposed on the spot, but was re- ' jected and never allowed to oall again. Miss Williams says God ' never intended her to marry. She 1 cares for the men only who are ’ relatives. Some time ago she refused to attend a picnic because she 1 I would have to be assisted in and out of the h’.Cr.-v by • / - men.