Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 8 February 1906 — Page 5

■RK.jHsioner Laughlin returned to I'l. i! Jefferson township after .. a session of the board of , r . t 0 Highness the Bey." with over le ■^B )e opL‘, lias been booked be ; e r Bosse, and will be seen here it house on next Monday ’ I A fill has been issued for a meete ase ba!l enthusiasts at the Elks’ • at 8 o'clock Tuesday even- ? a t this meeting it is expected a baseball association for Lh4®Biiing season. All who are in i (i m baseball and are willing to fi tart the ball to rolling are in- ; I meeting and urged to atBluffton Banner. I Qp petition of John A. Anderson, I -rndnalf mile of the William Burke road was condemned, and order was entitled on the of their court. The is located in Wabash running east of Ge for that length. The same macadamized along with three of the Geneva, I O® on and Wabash’road. Extern number four or this road, was [ $ E. Smith informed! us this that in a few days he will to move his stock from "hie I pJ ellt location the Mangold I iar t 0 M e l er an d Ball furnstore where he will in the I f«m‘ conduct his business Mr. Smith leave tomorrow for Cincinati 0. he will purchase a full line of and will be ready to fill any de made by the public. He will a full line of musical instrusheet music and sewing ma

I ■The Young Matron's Club weie Friday of Mrs. D.JE. Smith street. The club departed J Sim the regular routine and indulgI el in games instead of fancy work. I ®e invited guests were Mesdames S. J. Moran, F. Heuer, M. ArehH. Gregg, C. A. Dugan and Rose Christen. Mrs. Smith was in serving very delicious reby her sisters. Mrs. John will entertain the club at a party on the Friday following Valentine day. I Dr. C. E. Neptune has opened His dental parlors in the Dorwin Hlook over Auth’a jewelry store Hrnia visit this morning convinced His that he has as modern and com Hlete equipment as can be found Hnywhere. His rooms are tastily Hrranged and present a very pleas- . Hng appearance. He uses an eleoHrio engine at his chair and also ■has a motor in his work room. As , ■state, the office is modern and oom Hplete and Dick will no doubt secure I is share of patronage. ,

All Run Down 'HIS is a common expression we hear on every side. Unless there is some organic trouble, the condition can doubtless be remedied. Your doctor i? the best adviser. Do not dose yourself with all kinds of advertised remedies — get his opinion. More than likely you need a concentrated fat food to enrich your blood and tone up the system.

Scott’s Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil is just such a food in its best form. It will build up the weakened and wasted body when all other foods fail to nourish. If you are run down or emaciated, give it a trial: it cannot hurt you. It is essentially the best possible nourishment for delicate children and pale, anaemic girls. We will send you a sample free. BBe sure that this picture in the form of a label is on the wrapper of every bottle of Emulsion you buy. scon & BOWNE Chemists 409 Pearl Street, New York 50c. and sl. All Druggists

Harvey Roop Jwho for the past two years has been acting as clerk at the Burt House will leave tomorrow morning for El Reno Okla, where he has accepted a similiar position with S. G. Humphries who formerly run the Burt House. Harvey will keep in touch with Decatur doings by reading the Democrat. Washington, D. 0.. Feb. 7.—Letters received here say that at a banquet held in Manila. W. J. Bryan told the Philippines that the republican party was] doing the liest they knew for them, that even the democrats]might make mistakes in power He refused to disouss the future of the islands until he 1 saves. The players of whist were in sesion last evening with Mr and Mrs. Harry R. Moltz at their handsome home, corner of Monroe and Sixth streets. After a two hours’ battle the championship honors went to Mrs. Roy Archbold and Mr. W.A. Kuebler, they hav ing secured the highest number of points, 216. The luncheon was delicious and the "social ghour afterward a delightful climax. It is seldom a man will pass out a ten dollar gold piece for a fifty cent piece, but such is just what Auditor Dee Lewton did last evening at the Opera House. Dee came in late and while in a hurry just tossed a coin on the ticket window received his ticket and went inside. While checking up his cash Manager Bosse discovered the mistake and came before the audience and made an announcement. Mr Lewton soon discovered his mistake and received his ten back.

A correspondence school is to be opened in this city by three of the city's brightest young men, and if enthusiasm counts for anything the same will be a success. The school is to be conducts! upon the same plan as all the larger correspondence schools and will be equal in every respect, [as each of the instructors are well versed in this art. A. J. Forbing will be the teacher in telegraphy, Dick Farrell stenography and Earl Snow in drawing and designing. The boys have not as yet secured any building but heaquarters will soon be acquired and they will at once send out their advertising matter. With skillful managementjthe school will no doubt be successful. P. E, Beardsley is to be the corresponding secretary.

Frank Blossom, aged about twentyeight years, living a mile east of Steele, in Blue Creek township, was kicked oy a horse at 6 o’clock last evening, and it is believed he is fatally injured. He and a brother had been over to Steele to buy some groceries and returning at the hour mentioned had driven into the pasture lot to unhitch. There were several horses in the lot and one of them feeling light spirited, playfully kicked Frank, who had his overcoat collar turned up and had not noticed the horse was so near His brother tried to save him, but was an instant too late. The blow struck Frank just above the right ear, fracturing the skull and causing a hemorage of the brain. Drs. Parrish and McKean, of Monroe, and Dr. Christy of Willshire were called and one or more of them have been with him constantlv. A telephone message at noon said that Frank was much worse and hopes for his recovery are very slight indeed. The injured man is a son of Lyman Blossom of this city and is well known here. The cost of Miss Alioe Rnm’lt trousseau for her approaching wed ding is an all-absorbing topic with the ladies of the country just now. Girls, how would you like to have gowns and clothes for a similar occasion costing <11,400? That is what Alice will have itemized as follows: One wedding gown SI,OOO, six dinner gowns, average, S2OO, $1,200; two imported lace gowns, $1,000; one lace coat ssoo;six reception and afternoon gowns' average $l5O $900; Four evening wraps at $250. SI,OOO ; three street dresses at $l5O $450; one driving coat SSO; one automobile coat, $100; lingerie, twenty-four three-piece sets, average SSO, $1,200 twenty four embroidered muslin skirts, $500; six embroidered muslin and Itnen house gowns, $500; six matinee and lounging gowns $500; four corsets at SSO, «200 shoes $100; gloves $100; hosiery $200; parasols $500; handkeohiefs $200; ten street hats $250, six reception and hats S3OO three driving hats. SIOO, two evening dress hats, $100; two evening dress hats, S3O; six rough-and-ready hats for outdoor sports, $150; total $11,400.

HONORS FALL TO MISS ANNA WINNES With Mrs. Ed Luttman but Few Votes Behind The Ladies Poll a Heavy Vote Tuesday LADIES Miss Anna Winnes, Eastern Star 6299 Mrs. Ed. Luttman, Zion German Lutheran Church62l2 Miss Pearl Burdg, Presbyterian Churchs7s2 Amanda M. Soldner, German Reformed Church, Berne4s72 Miss Francis Bryson, High 5ch0013639 Miss Dude Voglewede, Bachelor Maids’ C1ub3528 Miss Bertha C. Hart, Bar Association 2734 Miss Maud L. Magley, English Luthern Church. 1917 Miss Winifred Johnson. High School 74) Mrs. Geo. Louthan, W. R. C 656 Mrs. Clayton Dailey, Ben Hur 162 Mrs. Jesse Smith, Pathfinders 160 Miss Mayme Smith, Beau Not Club 124 Miss Edna Ehinger, St. Mary's Church 101 Miss Pansy Bell, Methodist Church 85 Miss Josephine Schumaker. St. Mary’s Church 81 Mrs. Fred Linn, Rathbone Sisters 72 Miss Lizzie Peterson, Presbyterian Church 60 Mrs. Tom Butler, Eastern Star, Geneva 46 GENTLEMEN D. W. Beery, Elks ‘4402 L. C. Helm, I. O. O. F 3995 Dallas Butler, K. of P 3391 Wid Dorwin, Masons2ss4 Edgar Gerber, German Reformed Church 670 Wm. Darwachter, Red Men 506 Frank Wemhoff. Knights of Columbus 366 Ralph Case, High School 342 M. J. Krohn. Eagles 61 Earl K. Shalley, K. of P., Berne 53 Will Berling, K. of C 52 Ed. Kraner, Masons, Geneva 38 Fred Fullenkamp, St, Mary’s Church 38 H.L. Yager, K. of C- 34 C. S. Ward, High School 5

*********** * * * * THE JUDGES. * * * * C. A. Dugan. * * C. S. Niblick. * * D. E. Smith. * * J. D. Winteregg. * * J. T. Merrymax. * Will. P. Schrock. * Shaffer Peterson * *********** *

Only four days more of he contest are now remaining and these last few days are bound to be filed with (clever eampaining and fence building by the different contestants and their many friends. United suport [is what will count and the friends of ithe J different candidates are rallying royally to the standards of their favorites and in the corner grocery store where generally bace ball games of a! decade ago are played and replayed at I this time of the year, the general topic of discussion t brought up by the debating society is the merits of the different contestants. The final count Saturday night is to be an open and public.one and the contestantsand their friends [are all invited to attend and judge for them as to whether each candidate shall receive due justice and inpartially. Again wejmust mention that in Fridays issue there will be no coupon printed and as the time limit on ail outstanding coupons expire on Feb 9th. therefore they [must be voted by that day. This will facilitate the final count and an early result of the decision of the judges. Another thing the different contestants are requested to do in order to aid in the speedy count is this; Each can didate should arrange the certificates to be voted Saturday according to consecative numbering. For illustration— coupons from book No. 1, which contains 25 certificates numfa 3red from 1 to 25, should be ar ranged together, then book No 2,

GENTLEMAN'S BALLOT. ♦ • One vote for Name of Organization—- ♦ In the Daily Democrat Voting Contest. Void after Feb. 9. ; mu. —...... ........ im.iw......'* ******* f t LADY’S BALLOT. I One vote for Name of Organization i In the Daily Democrat Voting Contest. 51 oid after Feb. 9.

certificates from 26 te 50 and so on. This will also greatly aid and save much time and the general public will be able to learn the result by 10 o’clock Saturday evening. The place of holding the final count will be announced later. The main feature of Tuesdays voting was the extra ordinary heavy vote polled .by the ladies who out vo'ed the men almost ten to one. [Miss Anna Winnes polled 1119 and thereby takes ahe lead by the small margin of 87 votes over Mrs. Ed Luttman who polled 2009 ballots, the highest score for any one candidate in one days balloting. Miss Pearl Burdg after leading the race into the stretch for the past two days, drops down to third place for a short breathing spell before the strenuous finish next Saturday night. This popular young lady is certainly making a head to head finish and may ‘have something jelse up her sleeve that will make it appearance in due time. All the ladies were favored and the race is still in doubt even in the minds of those who think they know [some thing. Not once in this struggle has the interest lagged one bit and in fact is on the increase all the time as shown bv the attention the bulletins in our windows attract and also by the frequent calls by the 'phone. Up to date and during the entire .contest just 53,467 votes have been cast of which the ladies have polled 36,952 and the gentlemen 16,515. This shows the gentlemen's vote is already 20,437 short and the question is who ' has them? If they are in the hands of any one candidate, whoever he is, he will make a garrison finish But this is hardly probable as it is almost cer tain that this vote is divided among the different contestants on the gentlemen’s sides. Still there is a chance that the oft mentioned dark horse may et any time jump in the race and show a clean pair of heals to the others and win in a walk. This certainly only helps to make the contest all the more popular and interst at fever heat.

THE GOOD THINGS OF EARTH

Are Not All Far-Fetched.

That our American forests abound in plants, the roots of which possess the most valuable medicinal and curative virtues, is abundantly attested by scores of the most eminent medical writers and teachers of our age. Even the untutored Indians had. by intuition and experiment, discovered the usefulness of many native plants before the advent of the white race on this continent. This ireformation. crude though it was. imparted freely to the friendlier of the whites, led the latter to continue investigations until to-day we have a rich assortment of most valuable American medicinal roots and herbs. It is no longer thought necessary that a medicinal agent, in order to be good and useful, must have been brought across the ocean or that "being carried seven times across the Sahara Desert on the backs of fourteen camels” makes it the more valuable. Dr. Pierce believes that our American forests abound in most valuable medicinal roots for the cure of most of our obstinate and most fatal diseases, if we would properly investigate them: and. in confirmation of this firm conviction, he points with pride to the almost, marvelous cures effected by his "Golden Medical Discovery,” which has proven itself to be the most efficient stomach tonic, liver invigorator, heart tonic and regulator. and blood cleanser known to medical science. Not less marvelous, in the unparalleled cures it is constantly making of woman’s many peculiar affections, weaknesses and distressing derangements, is Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, as is amply attested by thousands of unsolicited testimonials contributed by grateful patients who have been cured by Itof leucorrhea, painful periods, irregularities, prolapsus and other displacements, ulceration of uterus and kindred affections, often after many other advertised medicines had failed. Both these world-famed medicines are wholly made up from the glyceric extracts of native, medicinal roots, found in our American forests. The processes employed in their manufacture were original with Dr. Pierce, and they are carried on by skilled chemists and pharmacists with the aid of apparatus and appliances specially designed and built for this purpose. Both medicines are entirely free from alcohol and all other harmful, habit-forming drugs. A full list of their ingredients is printed on each of their wrappers. They are both made of such native, medicinal roots as have received the strongest endorsement and praise for their curative virtues from the most prominent writers on Maicrio Medica in this country. What is said of their power to cure the several diseases for which they are advised may be easily learned by sending your name and Address to Dr. R. V. Pierce. Buffalo. N.Y, for a little booklet which he has compiled, containing copious extracts from numerous standard medical books, which are consulted as authorities by physicians of the several schools of practice for their guidance in prescribing. It is free to all. A postal card request will bring it. You don’t have to rely solely upon the manufacturer’s say-so as to the power of Dr. Pierce’s medicines to cure, as with other medicines sold through druggists. You have the disinterested testimony of a host of the leading medical writers and teachers. Send for this copious testimony. It can be relied upon to be truthful because it is entirely disinterested. From the little booklet above mentioned, you will learn what a marvelous curative action Stone root, one of the prominent ingredients of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, ?xercises over the heart and its diseases, especially those valvular affections which are attended with diffi-

One week from next Saturday the teachers of Root and Union townships will hold a joint institute at the Monmouth school house. A big dinner will be served for the teachers, visitors and patrons. The Ladies Aid society of the the Presbyterian church will meet with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Lee, Thursday afternoon. A very cordial invitation is given to the ladies of the church and their friends to come and spend a pleasant afternoon. Yesterday afternoon two car of In dians, all decorated in war paint feathers and bright blankets, passed through our city enroute from the Indian reservation to Dunkirk, N. ¥., where they will join Buffalo Bill's wild west show for the coming season. The two cars in all probability held nearly a hundred and fifty of these red skins. Dell Lock’s hotel company held their second annual meeting the other evening, an election of officers being included in the program. They wisely paid Mr. Locke the compliment of a vote of thanks for main taining one of the best hotels on earth —or elsewhere. The company represents a capital stock of $55,000 but they value their property at t vic* that figure. Mrs. John Barger, who has been confined to her home west of this city, suffering with obstruction of the bowels, was taken to Fort Wayne Tuos evening under the oar of a trained nurse that had taken charge of her last Monday, and at six o'clock she was on the opera ticn table under the oare of Dr. Maurice Rosenthal at the Hope hospital. The operation lasted one hour and a half and a careful diagnosis was made of her condition, Dr. Rosenthal announcing that the patient was suffering from either a cancerous growth or a tumorous growth, and if the latter he thought j the same could be removed and the patient could get well, the former it was only a question of time until death resulted. Mrs. Barger stood the operation well * and revived in nice shape. Dr. . Rosenthal did not state when he i would endeavor to remove the growth.

cult breathing, smothered sensations, palpitation or irregular heart actions Dr. Paine, author of Paine’s Epitomy o| Medicine, considered Stone root specifics in these cases, and cites bad eases cured! by it in his extensive practice. Golden Seal root, another prominent ingredient of Dr. Pierce’s "Discovery,” is also a valuable heart tonic, as is also Black Cherrybark, another ingredient. You will also learn that the eminent Drs. ’ Hale, Ellingwood, Johnson, Hare, Coo i and others recommend Golden Seal root. ■ ajid several of them Slone root, Queen’s. | root. Blood root and Black Cherry bark I for bronchial, throat and lung affecI lions attended with hoarseness, persistent cough, night-sweats and kindred symptoms indicating approaching consump- | tion. All these agents are faithfully and : fully represented in Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, and it can be confidentally relied upon to produce their j combined curative effects, not only in the above mentioned affections, but also in all catarrhal diseases, no matter whether affecting the nasal passages or other i regions of the body. In nasal catarrh, while relying on the I "Discovery" as the best constitutional remedy known to medical science, Dr. I .Sage’s Catarrh Remedy should be used Ito cleanse the nasal passages. Together , they constitute the most thorough and effective course of treatment which can be employed for the cure of that troublesome disease. No other medicines sold through druggists for liks purposes, have any such professional endorsement as Dr. Pierce’s, and. in consequence, none are so largely prescribed by physicians who know what they are made of and that their composition is of the best ingredients regardless of cost. Send for the little free book NOW. The "Golden Medical Discovery ” must not be expected to produce miracles. While it is especially suited for the cure of all chronic, lin/jeriurj coughs that are curable, it is not so effective in acute colds and coughs unless slippery elm ! mucilage. flaxseed tea, solution of gum arable, or other mucilaginous demulcent Ibe drank freely in connection with its I use. Nor must the "Discovery" be exI pected to cure consumption in its advanced stages. In its early stages it will stay its progress and often effect a cure | if its use be persisted in for a reasonable j length of time. Send for the little book ! noted above and learn what those most I eminent in the medical profession say of the ingredients out of which Dr. Pierce’s I medicines are made and thereby learn i K /q/ they cure obstinate diseases. Doctor Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets cure | biliousness, sick and bilious headache, dizziness, costiveness, or constipation of I the bowels, loss of appetite, coated j tongue, sour stomach, windy belchings, "heart-burn.” pain and distress after eating, and kindred derangements of the liver, stomach and bowels. Put up in glass vials, tightly corked, therefore always fresh and reliable. One little "Pellet” is a laxative, two are cathartic. They regulate, invigorate and cleanse the liver, stomach and bowels. A good medical book, written in plain English, and free from technical terms, is a valuable work for frequent consultation. Such a work is Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Advise it plain English, or Medicine Simplified, ft's a book of 1008 pages, profusely illustrated with wood cuts and colored plates. It is given away now. although formerly sold in cloth binding for $1.50. Send 21 cents, in one-eent stamps, to pay for cost of mailing only for paper-covered copy, addressing Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.; or 31 cents for an elegantly clothliound copv. It gives over 200 prescriptions for the treatment of acute and chronic ailments.

TOOK CHILDREN Drove to School House in Cleveland, Ohio, and Secured Her Babies— Denies Kidnapping Story. •y United Preet Nev. a Aeeonlatlon. Cleveland. 0., Feb. 7.—Two women and a man, late yesterday afternoon, kidnapped Fred, Laura and Charles Williams from the Lakewood school and took them away in a cab before the pupils and teachers realized what was being done. The children have been living with their father, Albert S. Williams, a carpenter, who has asked the police to Icok for Mrs. Anna Williams at Decatur, Indiana. Williams was divorced recently from bis (wife in Indiana and says she has remarried. The Mrs. Williams spoken of above arrived here over the Erie at three O'clock Tues, morning, accompanied by the three children. They are now at their home on north Eighth street. She said that she kidnapped the children, but says she had been informed by people who live near her former husband, that he was abusing the babies and asked her to come and get them. Accompanied by her lawyer she went to the school house, got her babies and came to Decatur Mrs Williams is now Mrs Ira Thomas to whom she was mar ried about a month ago, at Elkhart Inidana, the day after she had been granted a divorce from her former husband, Albert Williams, before Judge O'Rourke at Fjrt Wayne. At that time she was givaa the custody of her daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas now live here and Mrs. Thomas went to Cleve land a week ago to appear iu a case against, her former hu-*b..ni, in which she sued hi n on •- uo'.e for S9OO which be had b rrowed j from her.