Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 38, Decatur, Adams County, 23 November 1905 — Page 8

Pleasant Mills • Mr-. J. D. Winans cilled on friends here Monday. Mrs. Wa-h Ci-e moval into her new house last wees. Singing at the Baptist church every Friday evening. A protracted effort commenced at this 11. E. church, Monday evening. Mrs. Susanah Archer of Decatur, is spending the week here with relatives. Mr. and Mrs Gus Smith are moving this week. They will occupy the on Second street. Pleasant Mills is to have a new restaurant, with Burton Faller as proprietor, We wish him success in his new enterprise. Don't forget the Thanksgiving supper at the hall on Thursday evening, November *3Oth. A cordial invitation to all. John Armstrong and wife of Indianapolis, spent the past week here with his parents. Mr. and Mrs, William Armstrong. Mrs. Marguerite Patterson arrived from Muncie, Saturday, and will make her home for awhile with Mr. and Mrs. S. Steele. E. W. France, the hardware merchant, is doing a rushing business this fall, in the way of sellin g stoves and ranges. His stock is complete and at reasonable prices. | Lee Custer, who resides two miles south of Pleasant Mills, was united in marriage to Miss Mary Faller of this place. The ceremony was conducted by Rev. Swaney at the M. E parsonage, at Bobo, on Wednesday evening of last week. We extend congratulations in wishing them a happy married life. Two accidents occurred here last week. The one happened at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Mauller, when their little son fell from the outside stairway of their dwelling to the ground, inflicting a bad fracture of the forehead which seemed to be very serious. Attention was given him and he is impoving rapidly. The other occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Steele, when their little daughter, Lelah fell on a piece of glass which penetrated her check* and cutting her face in a frightful manner. She is getting along as well as can be expected. Linn Grove. Our pedagogues held an institute withstrict No. 5. last Saturday. Prof. B F. Winans of Berne, m’.de a sioial call on friends here ast Saturday. Candidates are more numerous than are wild beasts of the forest, but much more docile. Eugene Lindsey beats our record cn large pumpkins, he producing one weighing 75 ponds.

COMIING To the Murray House, Decatur, Ind., Saturday of Each Week Nil? UCnCIZV Graduate of Opthamic Col- . W. ntKjKl Chicago, Detroit and It is with pardonable pride that I could fill this newspaper full of testimonials indorsed by many of the leading physicians and professional men of Canada and the United States. But it is not the reccommendations of hundreds of miles away that count. It is to your good will and testimonials that I aspire, and to accomplish the same I will give you the benefit of my 15 years experience and knowledge free, and if I find glasses to be a benefit to yonr ejes, I shall fit you if you wish with a pair of the best. Crystal Lenses With Gold-Filled Frame $ 1.00 All I ask in return is that if I give you relief, help recommend me to your friends and acquaintances. I shall make a weekly call at the Murray House but remember this grand offer stands only for Saturday, November 25, ’OS After that time you will have to pay the refiular prices. In conclusion, will say that I will test your eyes and Give a Pair of Glasses FREE OF CHARGE to anyone who is poor and unable to purchase even at so small a cost. I make this offer, knowing the great boon glasses are to some people. You have a graduate dentist fill your teeth, why not have a competent :r.l' ’ 1 yes* Cone E?rly to Avoid Rush

Sterling P. Hoffman and Leander Rohn atended Eben Holden play at Bluffton Monday evening. The Linn Grove W. C. T. U. will I meet at the home of Miss Winona Hoffman, Friday afternoon, November 24. Our version to the problem in the Daily Democrat of the 16th inst., namely “How cold is it when it is twice as cold as two degrees below zero 0 " is 34 degrees, Noah Heller of Cleveland. Ohio, is paying his people here a visit. He holds a position as trading salesman for a large grocery concern of the above named city. Daniel and Noah Yoder, Albert ! Stadler and Vernon Lindsey returned from Fort Wayne last Saturday, having completed the ma- | sonry work for a church building. The Bowman families and Eli Bierrie and family of East Nottingham and ForestJHoffman and wife, Jacob Meschberger and wife of near this place, attended the Fred Ahbauoher faneral at Bluffton Monday. The lecture by Rev. Milo Smith last Friday evening was fairly well attended and his efforts well received his views were not radical yet plain and decisive, arraigning the government much for (licensing and perpetrating the liquor traffic, which must be overcome at the ballot box. On Sunday, November 19th about three score or more of Grandmother French's children, grandchildren, and great grand children, meet at her heme and reminded her of her eighty-sixth birthday anniversary, an elegant dinner was one of the things that helped to make a good time, after which she was presented with many valuable and useful articles, one being an elegant rocking chair. Ail had a good time and wished grandmother many more just happy occasions. Those to participate in the good times were Mr. and Mrs. Marion French. John Stiner, John Miller, Hugh and Fred French, D. F. Hoffman, and their families, Mrs. Lowina North, Lew Justus and wife and son of Bluffton, Mrs. Peter Hoffman. Misses Lillian Beller of Bluffton, Nona Hoffman. Ethel French. Messrs. Herbert North of Delphos. Ohio, Earl Shalley of Berne, and Sterling G. and Oral V Hoffman. Photographer Shalley then took a picture of the entire group, also of three different set of four generations each. First, Grandmother French and her son and his daughter, Mrs. John Miller and her baby; the next group was Grandmother French, Mrs. Lowina North, Mrs. Lewis Justis and her son; third group were Grandmother French, Mrs. Peter Hoffman. D. F. Hoffman and sons. "The catalogue house, or home merchant, which? Come to hear this decided at the institute, December 1 and 2. 266dtf

Manager Bosse has seonred for all this week the f inions Guy Stock company of thirty people, including the great vaudeville artists 5 Dollars. G. Carlton Guy is one of the ablest actors in stock work, and has surrounded himself with a fine company carrying a car load of special scenery, a fine band of sis-. een pieces and orchestra cf ten pieces. This company have been very successful this season, playing to goed bouses everywhere and getting good newspaper notices. Toe prices will be 10, 20 and 30 cants. Ladies free the opening night. See free ladies’ tickets. Henry Cover, a tinner, who was famed throu?hont the state for his fearlessness in working at dizzy hights, was found dead in bed at his home in Bluffton Monday bv his wife. Cover who was known as “Deafy,” was 63 years of age and the oldest man working at that trade in Bluffton. He is survived by his wife and four children. The latter are: Mrs Mary Stilson, of L'ma. Ohio; Mrs. Bessie Spake, of Tiffin, Ohio, Mrs. Anna Fisher, of Fort Wayne, and Will Cover, of Parker City. Mr. Cover lived in Decatur years ago. and will be remembered by many. He built and operated Cover’s hall, the first opera house in the city, it being the building now occupied by H. S. Porter. The will of George Washington Calderwood, a ninety year old citizen. who died last week, was probated Monday. After providing for payment of funeral expenses and I debts, the will bequeaths all of the personal and ’real property of the deoaased to Rolla Calderwood, his son, who lived with him during the last years of his life. Rolla, however, is to pay off a S7OO mortgage and to pay SIOO each to Malissa Rhodes, Margaret Johns, Susan Sloate, Clark Calderwood and the children of J. C. Calderwood, and George Calderwood, these to be paid off in order named after the mortgage has been paid. The farm consists of forty acres in Blue Creek township. Uncle George named his old friend, James T. Merryman, as executor. The will was written last July. The city council met in regular business session Tuesday even'g, at the council chambers. Mayor Coffee, presiding, and Councilmen Bahler, Teenle. Porter. Gaffer. Kirsch and Fordyce present. The members got down to business at once and listened to the reading of the minutes of the last meeting, which were approved. Gaffer then made a motion that the oonract of Henry Stevens with the city for the construction of the Neptune sewer be accepted, which carried. Porter made a motion that the bond furnished by Stevens be accepted and spread of record, which carried. The matter concerning sidewalks of William, Al and Kate Burdg. Al Gerard and James Fristoe upon a motion by Teeple, was referred to the sidewalk committee, which carried. Teeple then moved that the matter of the settlement of the insurance on the boilers at the water works plant be continued until the next meeting, which carried. The report of the electric light commit- , tee concerning the light question with the Commercial club was read and upon a motion by Buhler was adopted, which means that the Commercial club must put in an electric meter. The following bills were then allowed: C. Vogt, labor. $5.25; election commissioners, labor. $18; D. F. Teeple. drayage. $9; D. B. Erwin, election expenses. $35; J. R. Smith, election expenses, $36.50; H. S. Steele, election expenses, $33.90; James Haefllng, election expenses, $37; John Lose, election expenses, $37 Oil company, oil, $22.58; Sunday Creek Supply company, coal, $675.25 Fort Wayne Supply company, supplies, $42.77; ; t Garlo ok Packing company, supplies, $46.70; Kuhlman Electric company, supplies, $153.50; Jlngersell Sargeat company, supplies, $113.38; Western electrio company, supplies, $113.38; Monitor Oil company, oil, ■546.42; H. C- Stetler, election expenses, $36.60; Fort Wayne Electric company, supplies, $146.95; C. &. E. Railroad company, freight, $182.46; W. E. Fulk, pay roll, $35.75; James Ault, labor, 60c; J. C. Patterson, epxress, $1 S. Spangler, rent, $lO, D. F. Teeple, drayage, $7.48; National Carbon company, supplies, $104.85; John Thomas, hauling coal $49.17;. No other business coming befo e the council they’adjourned to meet in two weeks.

I LINCOLN’S FOREFATHERS. A strain of Tragedy Runs Through Their History. Ibraham Lincoln's forefathers ware I pioneers—men who left their homes to open up the wilderness and make the way plain for others to follow them, lor 17U years, ever since the first American Lincoln came from England to Massachusetts, in 1638, they had been moving slowly westward as new settlements were made in the forest. They faced solitude, privation and all the dangers and hardships that beset men who take up their homes where only beasts and wild men have had homes before, but thej. continued to press steadily forward, though they lost fortune and sometimes even life itself in their westward progress. Back in Pennsylvania and New Jersey some of the Lincolns had been men of wealth and influence. In Kentucky, where the future president was born on Feb. 12. 1809, bis parents lived in deep poverty. Their home was a small log cabin of the rudest kind, and nothing seemed more unlikely than that their child, coming into the world in such humble surroundings, was destined to be the greatest man of his time. True to bis race, be also was to be a pioneer, not, indeed, like his ancestors. a leader into new woods and unexplored fields, but a pioneer of a nobler and grander sort, directing the thoughts of men ever toward the right and leading the American people through difficulties and dangers and a mighty war to peace and freedom. The story of this wonderful man begins and ends with a tragedy, for bls grandfather, also named Abraham, was killed by a shot from an Indian’s rifle while peaceably at work with his three sons on the edge of their frontier clearing. Eighty-one years later the president himself met death by an assassin’s bullet. The murderer of one was a savage of the forest; the murderer of the other that far more cruel thing, a savage of civilization. —St. Nicholas. FLATTERING RULERS. Their Weak Points Pass Innoticed. Napoleon's Marl-sniauship. Rulers have always been flattered, from Canute's time downward, it being. it wouid seem, an unwritten law that a monarch's weak points should pass unrecognized. Napoleon 111. once said, in consoling a friend who chanced to be shooting with him for bis poor p;m:ksmanship: •You need not fret about it. The emperor (by which he meant his uncle, the great Napoleon I.) was even a worse shot than you are. The only time they put a gnu in his band he killed a poor hound and went away thinking he bad killed a stag. "In those days the stag, whenever brought to bay. was left for the emperor to kill. One day, however, the emperor was not to be found, and the master of the staghounds finished the animal with his knife. Just then the emperor came in sight. ‘ They hurriedly got the dead stag on Its legs, propping it up with branches, etc., and handed the emperor the 'carabine of honor,’ as it was called. The emperor fired, and of course the stag tumbled over, but at the same time there was a piteous whine from one of the hounds, which had been shot through the head. "The emperor wheeled around, unconscious of the mischief be had done, saying to one of the aids-de-camp. •After all. I am not as bad a shot as they pretend!’”

HOW A BADGER WORKS. Can Excavate Almost as Rapidly as a Man With a Spade. During the day the badger sleeps deep in bls burrow, far out on our western plains and prairies, and at twilight he starts forth on a night’s foraging. He is a dreaded enemy of the prairie dog and the ground squirrel, and when he begins to excavate for one nothing but solid rock or death can stop him. With the long, blunt claws of his fore feet he loosens up the dirt. Dig. dig. dig! He works as though his life depended on It, now scratching out the sides of the hole, then turning on his back to work overhead. At first he throws the dirt out between his hind legs, but soon he is too far down for that, so he banks it up back of him, then turns about and using his chest and forward parts as a pusher shoves it out before him. He works with such rapidity that it would be somewhat difficult for a man to overtake him with a spade.—St. Nicholas. Killin* a Robin. There are persons at the present day —and not all old women either—who believe that killing a robin will bring bad luck. According to ancient belief, the storm clotid was a huge bird. The Arabians represented his wings as measuring 10,000 fathoms. This bird lived on worms, the latter being the streaks of lightning accompanying storms. The Germans remodeled the fiction by creating the god Thor, whose bird was the robin. Consequently to kill a robin first meant death by lightning, then bod hick. The Early Boom. "When I was a boy,” said the rather vain person, "eyery!>->dy I was going to be president of the United States." “Yes.” answered the seasoned politician. "Your case simply illustrates my argument that it isn’t safe to start a boom too far ahead of election."— Washington Star. George L. Dobson has resigned his position as consul general at Hangchow. China, after but a few weeks. He says Hajigehow is the filthiest city on earth. The Chinese don’t bury their dead, sometimes even when they die from cholera, and he is coming back

MARKET REPORT. Aacuraie prices paid by Decaiar merchants for various products, Corectad every day at 2 o’clock, Buffalo Stock Market E. Buffalo, N. I. Nov 21 SpecialCattle —Receipts 5 cars; market steady Prime steers J • @5 25 Medium Steers — ■ @ 4 Stockers to best feeders . @3 o 5 Cows @ 3 if -.olurna bulls ....—- • @3 <5 Jews, fancy 42.00 @ 53 00 Common to good 22.00@ 4000 Hogs—Receipts 20 cars; market steady Jood mediums & heavy's . @5 15 Workers @ rige @ 5 la i Jood Roughs 4.85 @ 5 00 [ Common Roughs 2.75 @ 4 00 Stajs 6 30 , Sheep—Receipts 10 cars; marketj Steady Choice lambs 1 • 35 Choice westerns • @ 6 <, Choice yearlings • @ 6 00 Tandy mixed sheep . @525 j Cull and commo: sheep. 3.00 @ 4.00 i > I PITTSBURG MARFETS Union Stock Yards. Pitsburg, Pa.| Nov 21—Hogs—Receipts 1(00 cars I r-rket steady. _ j ieavy Hogs I ■ @ la Medium , @ 5 10 Zorkers ■ @ 5 10 jight @ 5 05 loledo Markets Changed every afternoon at 3:00 > clock by J. D. Hale, Decatur special rire service. lay Wheat ..I 89| Jec Wheat 87J July. Wheat 83| Jorn, May 43.; Dec corn 44 Jats. cash 32 | July. Corn 44j May oats 33| 1 Dec oats 32 J July. Oats 32 j 3 ye, cash 70 Chicago Markets Chicago market closed at 1:15 p m. today, according to Decatur Stock and Grain Exchange May Wheat $ 86J Jan. Wheat Dec Wheat 83 iday Corn 43j Jan. Corn Dec Corn 44 day Oats 324 Jan Oats Dec Oats 29| Jan Pork 12 7o Jan Lard 6 87 (WAIN. BY B. L. OABBOL, GBAIM MIBCHAXI Machine shucked one cent less. Corn New, delivered 45 lais, new 28 Theat, No. 2 Red 80 N heat, No. 3 Red 75 Parley _ 56 Tye No. 2 56 Jlover Seed_ 6 80 llsyke - O 6 16 Suekwheat 48 71ax Seed 80 fimothy — $1 00 Uli. ITARKBi. ndlana .. 89 iVhitehouee , 104 Somerset 89 Neodasha, (Kan.) 51 3arkersville ........ .95 Sagland.. .49 Fiona ............11.68 Pennsylvania 1.58 Doming. ..... .. 1,10 .Sew Oasi •>. . 1.35 ■;orth Lima..... 94 South Lima 89 STOCK BY FBED SHEIMAW OEB LEB Lambs .550@650 Hogs per cwt ••. @4.40 Jattle per lb 34 @4 Calves, Per lb @5 "ows 1 3 Sheep 4@ 5 WOOL AND HIDES by b. halves & son. Phone 442 Wnc . unwashed 30 Beef Hides 9 Calf „ 11 Sheep Pelts 25@ 1.50 Tallow 3| HAY MARKET E. L. CARBOL So ITimothy Baled J 7.00 Mixed Baled 5.00 Clover Baled 4.50 OTHER PRODUCTS. tff OBOCKBS AMD MIBCBAMIS Egg fressh, perdoz • | 28 uard 17 3utter.per pound 15 c'oialoee, new 75 POULTRY BY J W PLACE CO chickens, young per lb 6} Fowls, per lb _ Young Turkey @ll4 Old Turkeys y Young Ducks 8 Old Ducks 8 Geese •• 8 COAL—Par Te» Prices of coal on and after December Ist, until further notice will be as follows: Hocking Lump, perlon $3 75 Virgina Splim 4 00 Indiana Lump 3 40 Domestic Nut 3 40 Washed Nut 3 75 Pittsburg Lump 3 75 Pocahontas 4 50 Kentucky Cannell 6 00: Anthracite 7 50 Charges for carrying coal —25c per i ton or fraction thereof; up stairs 50c der ton. 1

COMING D.W.TUCKER.M.D. the leading SPECIALIST os- fort wayn e WILL BE AT THE Murray House Monday, NOV. 27 And Every Four;Weeks Thereafter. He Treats Successfully All forms of Chronic Diseases that are curable. Diseases of the Eve i Ear, Throit, Lungs, Heart, Stomach’ j Kidueys. Liver, Bladder, Rheumatism, Dyspepsia and all diseases of I the Blood, Epilepsy (or falling fits) Cancer, Scrofula, Private and Nervous Diseases, Female Diseases, Night Losses, Loss of Vitality from indiscretions in youth or maturer years. Piles, Fistula, Fissure and Ulceration of the Rectum, Bright's Disease, Diabetes. DON’T GET PATCHED DP When You Cant Be Cured—Come To HIM and Cet Back Your Old Strength What would you give to feel as you did a few years ago, to have the same snap and energy, the same gladsome, joyous, light-hearted spirit and the physical strength you used to have? You might as well be. Its easy. I am making men out of wrecks every day, and I can make you as good a man as you ever were with my method of cureI can cure your pains and aches, limber up your joints and make you feel as firisky and vigorous as vou ever were in your life. That’s claim ing a great deal, but I know just whet my treatment will do. LADIES!—AII diseases peculiar to your sex successfully treated. You may consult me in confidence, uo matter what the trouble may Don’t suffer longer with headache, backache, dragging sensation, Irreg ularities, dizziness, nervousness, and orber kindred troubles. Don’t fail to call, as a visit costs you nothing and may save your li <“• Strict secrecy andjprivacy is my ironclad rule. CLASSES CORRECT!? FITTED For Headache Eye Strain and Poor VisionIF YOU ARE RUN D° WN ; Nervous and debilitated, have i gestion and chronic headaches, neuralgia, eyes, stys, cysts cross eyes, or any disease, <- v see me. Examination and con tion always free. DR. D.W. TUCKER j 221 W. Wayne St. Feit V ayne, Ii