Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 19 April 1906 — Page 8

GENEVA NEWS A RAISE IN OIL IS EXPECTED Mission Meetings Open Wednesday— Friday Lecture —Old Building is Disappearing. Geneva, Ind., April 17. —Mr. and Mrs. ‘' Doe ’ ’ Haughton left here Monday, for Sturgis. Mich., where Doe will try for the place of billing clerk in the G. R. & L station. “Doe” has been a resident of this place for several years, he having learned the railroad business here and his many friends have no doubt but that he will make good in Sturgis. Both Mr. and Mrs. Haughton have a host of friends who are loath to have them leave here. Uncle George Pyle will open his Union Mission meetings again on Wednesday evening. For several weeks, because of sickness and other causes, the meetings have been closed, but Mr. Pyle states that so many people have been comng to him and asking him to resume the meetings because of the untold good they were doing the town, that he decided to begin another series and everybody is invited. From all appearances. I. M. Cochran, lecturer and reader, who is to appear here Friday evening under the auspices of the Geneva High School alumni, will be greeted by a large crowd for the members of the alumni have been working hard, advertising well, and selling tickets. The proceeds go toward the banquet fund for this year's graduating class. , In a day or two the old I. 0. 0. F. building will be a thing of the past, for workmen are rapidly tearing it down and making room for the handsome new brick and stone building which will take its place. It is said that another new business block is to be erected this summer, but on inquiry nothing definite could be learned. Old oil men are rather expecting another raise in the price of grease, either today or tomorrow. Leave 'er come. John D. does not have to endow an unversity for Geneva, he does not have to help the Baptist church, he really doesn't have to do anything, but if he wants to put grease up to the dollar point he will make a new town of Geneva. Geneva, Ind.. April 18. —Sanford Mutzler, 18. had the misfortune to lose two toes of his right foot yesterday while getting some farming implements from the bam loft on the Smith farm south-east of here. He was endeavoring to get a plow down and just as he got it where it had to eome whether or no. he lost his hold and as a result the plow share stnlek his foot just right to mash the small toe and the one next to it. Both had to be amputated. Mesdames N. Shepherd and Carpenter gave another of the popular five-cent socials in the Masonic banquet hall last evening and again the Eastern Star pian fund was increased by quite a nice little sum. During the evening the music was furnished by W. B. Hale, who surprised his many friends by his accomplished piano playing. That Mr. Hale is an artist does not half express what we would like to say. He uses a pianola though. After nine o’clock the floor was cleared and given over to dancing for the remainder of the evening. Praises be! For a long, long time the band stand at the corner of High ami Line streets has been an eyesore, because of the fact that it is nothing more or less than a public bill board and now it is to be done away with as far as bill posting is concerned. Evans & Clark, painters, are making an estimate on the cost of removing all the adverisements and giving the stand a few coats of paint. It would add a hundred per eent. to the appearance of the corner and as the stand belongs to the people everyone should assist, when asked, to improve it.

Selling Meat at Old Stand Hating purchased the entire butcher ehop and meat business from James Bain, I have assumed full and and individual control. I will continue to sell the best meat at the very lowest prices, and will buy and pay the highest marked prices for hogs, sheep, and cattle. Call and see ’me on Monroe street. WILLIAM BUTLER

LINN GROVE. D. A. Baumgartner, of Decatur, sojourned here over the Sabbath. Mrs. D. F. Hoffman entertained at dinner. Sunday, the Misses Leona Coffin, Orrila Birie, Winona Hoffman. Elmer Augsburger went to Bluffton Monday, w here he has accepted a position in the Bunny Atkins barber shop. Sherman Higgins is erecting a new barn and is doing the work himself. This is his first endeavor at being a mechanic. Arthur Schaupp. who planned to return to Cincinnati on Monday, to resume his work there, is ill at his home with lagrippe. Our schools elose on Friday of this week, the date for the commencement exerciss of the High Schol will be announced later. John Hornaday, the princiapl of the Peterson schools, moved to this place Thursday of last week, and occupies the A. J. French property. James Kizer left for Fort Wayne, last Saturday to take the civil service examination . Miss Stella Liddy is tilling his position as teacher in the graded school during his absence. Misses Katherin and Effie Meshberger gave a farewell reception, Sunday evening, in honor of Misses Leona Coffin, and Orilla Bierie, who have been visiting her for some time. Mrs. Tina K. Mann, of Muncie, president of the Rebekah Assembly, will meet with the Linn Grove lodge on Friday evening. April 26. and Assembly Conductor. Mi's. Lizzie Heim, will no doubt be present, also. All members of the order are requested to attend. F. J. Shepherd is experimenting with an idea, original with him, for changing the habitation of poultry, which have adopted the straw staek as their roosting place. His success in this venture is marked. For full information concerning his methods and success, ask Mr. Shepherd, and he will tell you all about it, free of charge. An entertainment will be given on Saturday evening of this week at the Elmwood school house, district No. 3. Two farce comedy-dramas, entitled “That Rascal Pat.'’ and “The Loan of a Lover.” will be presented. Good music will be given in great quantities. The entertainment is under the direction of Miss Adelia Bryan, the teacher. As evidence that our people are adhering to Coxie’s advice in the establishment of good roads, is shown by the circulation of a petition for a macadamized road on the boundary line between Hartford and French townships, by Taiford Runyon, who reports 73 subscribers obtained in one day. The paper bears in all ninety-five names. Not one to whom the petition was presented, hesitated to sign it. Mr. Runyon is much pleased with the co-operation of the people, and extends his thanks. A RESIDENT FOR SIXTY YEARS Was Nearly Four Score Years of Age—The Funeral to be Held Saturday Afternoon. Death has again entered our community and taken from our midst one of the oldest and best known women in the city. Mrs. Jacob Hart. The end came yesterday at seven o'clock after an illness of over a year's duration, during which time she suffered patiently and without a murmur. with cancer of the stomach. Mrs. Hart was bora in Wayne county, Ohio on November the Ist. 1826, where she lived until she was a young lady, when her parents moved to Ashland county, in the same state. It was here that she was met by Jacob Hart, their marriage taking place April 2nd, 1846. The happy couple resided at this place until the year 1847. when they moved to Adams county, and for nine years they resided on a farm, where they prospered. In 1856 they moved to the city where Mr. Hart engaged in the brick business and later in the milling business in 1860 c? which he followed until a few years ago. when he sold out and has since lived a retired life. Mrs. Hart was a member of the Presbyteran church of this city and was a devoted Christian and an earnest worker in its behalf. The funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at two o'clock at the residence on Monroe street. Rev. Fowler officiating and interment will be made in the Decatur cemetery. She leaves a husband and five children, namely Henry Hartp Mrs. Elizabeth Rice, Mrs. Mary Bremerkamp. J. W. Hart and Harvey D. Hart, to mourn their loss.

SEPARATE ELECTION BOARDS Many Have Thought an Attempt Would be Made to Ignore District Committee. Separate Republican primaries are to be held in Delaware county Tuesday. April 24. one for the congressional candidates and one for the aspirants to county offices, according to the statement made by C. E. Lambert, secretary of the county Republcan central committee. The district committee announced some time ago that the congressional primary would be held on April 24. and the executive board of the county committee announced that the county primary would be held on the same date. The statement that the primaries will separate will eome as a surprise to some who believed an attempt would be made to ignore the district committee's acton by placing the names of the congressional candidates on the same ticket with the county candidates. Secretary Lambert stated that the two primaries will be held in the same room or building, wherever possible. This will be done to save as much time and trouble to the voters as possible as they will not be compelled to travel several blocks to ballot on both the county and congressional tickets. If rooms large enough to accommodate both election boards can be secured this will be done, but it is probable that diferent •■ooms will be used in a number of i lie precincts.

CONDEMN BAD SCHOOL HOUSES Secretary Hurty Opens War on the Unsanitary Ones. A vigorous campaign is being planned against unsanitary school houses by the state board of health, which last week began its war by closing four buildings which had been found to be detrimental to the health of pupils. The names of six more buildings have been sent to the board by persons having children attending them, with petitions that they be investigated. Dr. J. N. Hurty. secretary of the board, has said that the investigation would be taken up immediately, and that if the biddings were found to be unsanitary they would be closed. “M’e are going to begin the investigation without delay,” said Dr. Hurty, “and if the buildngs are found to be in bad condition they will be closed, immediately. M’herever we find a bad building we are going to elose it. and the trustees will bt.informed that if they wish to continue school they will have to erect a new structure or remove the unsanitary conditions some way.” A number of bad sructures are in use in this county and it is likely their condition will be reported to the state board of health. More school houses will be built this summer in Indiana than there have been for a long time.

TWENTY PRECINCT IN COUNTY - Chairman Frisinger Getting Ready For Voting on April Twen-ty-Fourth. John M. Frisinger, as chairman of the Republican county central committee, has arranged the voting precincts for the congressional primary election, which is due Tuesday. April 24. As arranged, there will be twenty voting places: Union township. Kobe school house. East Root township. Aber school house. M'est Root township, Monmouth school house. P’eble township, both precincts, school house. Kirkland township. Election school house. Washington township, both precincts, George Earnest restaurant. St. Marys, north preeinct. Bobo. St. Marys, south precinct, Pleasant Mills. Blue Creek, north precinct. Salem. Blue Creek, south precinct, Prairie school house. Nortn and middle Monroe. Monroe. Berne, A and B, Town Hall, Berne. French township, Election school house. Hartford, both precindts, Brushschool house. M’abash. north and Ceylon precinct, Town of Ceylon. . M’est Jefferson, Buekmaster school house. East Jefferson Booher school house. Geneva. A and B, Calaboose. Decatur. Ist wan], B precinct 2nd'ward, Vail's office. Decatur, 3rd ward, A preeinct 2nd ward, Holthouse barn. J. M. FRISINGER, Chairman.

A VERY INTERESTING LETTER Telling of Wallington Climate—Published Through the Kindness of J. H. Beatty. Puyallup. Wash.. April 8, 06. J. H. Beatty. Monroe, Ind. My Dear Friend: — Was glad to hear from you all, and to know that every body is well. We are all well as common. ' I will now trv and tell you in my awkwatd way, what I think of the west. Me first lived in Oregon, for 20 months, and that valley was so much like Indiana that we began to hunt for something better. So we moved to Stockton. California, a eity of 25,000. and liv - ed there nearly nine months and that was no place for a man with my little means. So I left for this state, and landed in Seattle. Then I went to every town and city on Puget Sound and settled in this little village of 4.000. which I have never regretted. Tomorrow, the 9th. five years ago. we left Decatur. West of the Cascade range from Canada to California is poor farming country and stock raisingJs the thing. Me don't raise corn here, neither do we wheat. But the M’illiamette Valley in Oreson raises wheat. This is the finest valley to live in and most productive. we think, in the world. M’e have 5 large saw mills here. 1 shingle mill. 2 box and berry factories. The lanrest saw mill saws from 30.000 to 50.000 feet of lumber per day. It has self feed. The land here is so productive that it is worth from S4OO to S6OO per acre without anything growing on it. Now this valley is adapted to raising hops and berries, sueh as raspberries and blackberries. M'e ship during berry season to the east over 169 car loads out of Puyallup. After berry season is over, for six weeks hop picking lasts, then comes the Pierce county or Puyallup Valley fair, w hich would be the finest display of fruits and vegetables you' ever saw. M’e are at the top in the state. You could get a job from some nursery to sell fruit trees as no one here or any other place is selling trees in the valley. Any one can make a living here that will get a move on himself. M’e are nine miles from Taeoma. a city of 75.000; 38 miles from Seattle, a city of 150.000. I was to both cities yesterday. It cost me 75 cents, and I paid fuD faro. M'e go to Taeoma and return for 25 cents, from Taeoma to Seattle and return for 50 cents, by water or on interurban for SI.OO. M'e live on the Northern Pacific railroad, which connects Portland. Oregon. Tacoma and Seattle. I am engaged in the meat business here and have been for over' two years. I have the leading market. own the building myself, which is a fine new brick. M'e own and built our dwelling, which is modern. M'e are all well satisfied here, and you could not hire my wife to live in old Adams county. M’e have the finest water in the world, cold spring water which is all soft. People here don't know what a cistern for soft water looks like. You don't have to warm the water to wash with soap, as it suds as well cold as hot. M'e keep our potatoes and all fruits in out houses all winter and they don’t freeze. M'e can look on Mt. Rainier, which looks to be ten mjjes distant, but is sixty miles. Oh! what a pretty scenery. Plenty of cows and cattle raised here as grass is green all the year round and chickens do well here and is quite an industry, as they help to cultivate the berries and keep them clean. Living is higher here than there. M’ages are much better ■ here. The clear sparkling waters and beautiful mountain scenery, with the green foliage the year round, would compensate for any advantage you leave in Adams county. Everything here is hustle and bustle, up-to-date and have a good time and enjoy life. M'e don’t see why you can’t do as well here as people from the east are all satisfied. M’e neither have it too warm or too eold on the Sound as we are favored with the Japan current of the ocean. Now as to the farming country of M’ashington you will find it located between the Rocky Mountains on the east and Cascade Mountains on the west, which is nearly the same climate as where you are. Wheat and cattle raising are the principal industries. You cannot homestead any good claims as tjjev have been taken long ago. Land is high, and timber is scarce in that belt hot and dry in summer and cold iu winter. Don't fail to see this valleybefore you locate. As ever your friend. AMOS FOREMAN, Puyallup. Pieree County. M’ashington Col. Fred Reppert left last evening for Morris Bluff. Nebraska, where on M’ednesday, he will conduct a big Fred Reppert is gaining an interstate sale of race horses. As an auctioneer, reputation.

HAD STRANGLED TO DEATH Sad Occurrence at Monroe Monday Morning—The Parents Heart Broken. Sunday evening, when Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Balmer of Monroe, retired for the night their little baby, only a few days old. was well and the fond parents had not other thought than that the little one would live 'to bless their home. During the night the little one awakened, taking nourishment but while the mother and father slept peacefully and unsuspectingly. the little one must have strangled and died. Until the mother awakened early in the morning she did not discover that the child nestled in her arms was eold in death. A physician was called but the child had been dead for some time, and the cause of its death is reported to be strangulation. The parents are almost heart broken on account of the suddenness of the young life's departure. —Berne News.

TO BE PRINTED IN ANDERSON Sixty-Five Thousand Tickets Ordered and Chairman Boltz Gets a Fat Job. The contract for printing the ballots for the Republican congressional primary has been awarded to Chairman John H. Boltz, of Randolph county. Instead of costing $350 as stipulated in the bill of rules as first formulated by the friends ol Candidate Stilwell, the contract price is $lO. The specifications calls for 65,000 tickets, 5x7 inches in size. The other bids ranged from s4i to S6O. and would have perhaps been a fair and reasonable compensation for the work. Chairman Boltz is a partisan of Mr. Cromer and the conclusion to be drawn is that at least some of the friends of Mr. Cromer did not propose to give the “subsidized press” an opportunity to print the tickets. Mr. Boltz is not a. printer, but the rules did not exclude his right to bid on the job. District Chairman Terhune made a little rule of his own after the contract was awarded to the effect that said ballots must be printed, counted and sealed in Anderson. under his own personal supervision.

WORDS OF PRAISE WELL MERITED BY A MELL KNOWN ARTICLE.

So much has been written by the I standard medicial authorities, of all the several schools of practice, in praise of the native, or American, medicinal plants which enter into the composition of Dr.‘Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis-1 covery, that in attempting to quote from the various works on Materia I Medica one hardlv knows where to commence, since they are so voluminous that only the briefest and most imperfect reference can be presented in a short article like this. Briefly then let us say that the I "Golden Medical Discovery” was named from the sturdy little plant Golden Seal, the root of which enters I largely into its composition. Besides this most valuable ingredient, it contains glyceric extracts of Stone root, Queen's root, Black Cherrybark, Bloodrpoj ajid Mandrake root. ’ — Finley EUingwood. M. D., an eminent practitioner of Chicago and Professor of Materia Medica in the Bennett Medical College of that city*, in his recently published work on Yherapeutics, says of Golden Seal root: "It is the most natural of stimulants to the normal functions of digestion. Its influence upon the mucous surfaces renders it most important in catarrhal gastritis (inflammation of stomach) and gastric (stomach) ulceration.” Many other authorities as well as Dr. EUingwood extol the Hydrastis (Golden Seal), as a remedy for catarrhal diseases of the nasal passages, stomach, bronchia, gall ducts, kidneys, intestines and bladder. Among these, we may mention Prof. John King. M. D., author sf the American Dispensatory; Prof. J. M. Scudder, M. D., in his " Specific Medication”; Dr. H.ale of the Hahnemann Med. College of Chicago; Grover Coe, M. D.. of New York, in his "Organic Medicines,” Dr. Bartholow of Jefferson Med. College and scores of other leading medical writers and teachers. All the foregoing eminent authorities extol the curative virtues of Golden 6eal in cases of stomach, liver and intestinal weakness, torpor and ulceration of bowels. Dr. EUingwood recommends it most highly, " In those cases of atonic dyspepsia when the entire apparatus, Including the liver, is stagnant and Inoperative." He also extols it most highly in the many weaknesses and derangements peculiar to women and says, "It is a most important remedy in many disorders of the womb.” Golden Seal root (Hydrastis), is an important ingredient of Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription for weak, nervous,"rundown” women. But to return to the "Golden Medical Discovery ” it may he said that its curative properties are not wholly dependent upon Golden Seal, vai-.sb’e as it is, as other equally pc ant ingredients add Eeatly to its value and in fact are not ss important than the Hydrastis, or Solden Seal. >ln all bronchial, throat, lung and kindred ailments, Stone root, Blsck Cherrybark, Queen’s root and Blood•oot, each p’ays as important a part ta effecting the phenominal cures ofGolden Medical Discovery ” as does i Golden Seal, All these ingredients nave the endorsement of prominent practitioners of all schools of medicine for the cure of diseases of the bronchia throat and lungs.

WAS SICK ONLY THREE DA} Post Mortem to be Held—Deceasi Was Brother of John and George Everett. Jonothan Everett, a prominent a influential citizen of Van M’ert con ty, and who is well known in tl eity and county, being a brother John and George Everett of this ci died yesterday at his home, p miles east of the state fine at f 0 o'clock, after an illness of tin days’ duration, the exact cause his death not being known at tl time, as a post mortem examinati will be necessary to determine t cause of his demise. The disea which caused his death attacked h last Monday and his pain and sufft ing were great, it being imivssil for the doctors to give him any thii to bring relief, and his demise oeci red just three days after the attac The funeral arrangements have not i yet been made as no word has bet received from a daughter in India Territory, or a brother in Kansas ai it is possible that both will desire attend. The arrangements will I announced later. THEY ALI SAY SO. ; Not Only In Decnt ur But lu Every (| and Town in the I niun. If the reader took the time ai trouble to ask his fellow residents Decatur the si.apla quest; -i trier. I low. he world oo’i o the onl. a: swi If he would read the sta■••monts no being published in Decatur. which i fer to this answer, b would mirpri him to note that they number so man As -nanv more could lie. and ;nav I published, but in the meantime a i lie first person .ou meet wiiat cur headache. The ans.ver will be Boat Kidney Pills Here is a citizen w endorses our claim: Mrs. C. Conter. of I’irst St.. sn “Pain across the small of my bar much deeper seated and harder to r mov than that which conies irom o erexertion annoyed u ■ for some tin A few days' treatment of loans Ki ney Pills, procured at Holtiionse. t.'s low annd Co.'s drug store, so radical and quickly disposed of the innoyan that I came to the conclusion th Doan's Kidney Pills acted as repr sented. Other membeis of my tami have taken a course of the treat-ne of Doan's Kidney Pills and good 1 suits have follow-el their use. I w be only too plea n d to end ir- boat Kidney Pills on ever occasion wh I have an opportunit. . Sold for 50 tents per box by dealers. Foster-Milburn Co.. Buifa N. Y.. sole agents for the Unit States. Remember the name—DOaNS—at take no substitute.

Os Queen's root, Prof. King says "An alterative (blood purifier) unsur passed by few if any other of the knowi alteratives. Most successful in skii and scrofulous affections; beneficial ii bronchial affections; permanently curs bronchitis; relieves irritations; an im portant cough remedy; coughs of yean standing being cureti; aids in blood making and nutrition and may be taket with out harm for long periods.” Queen’s root, 'Golden Seal root, Stow i root, Black Cherrybark and Bloodroot all articles extolled by leading practi tioners of all the schools, as the verj best of cough medicines, are made f* pecially valuable when combined witi chemically pure glycerine which greatly enhances the curative action of all thew ingredients in all bronchial, throat ant lung affections, severe coughs and kin dred ailments. " Who ettp doubt the efficacy of such I compound, when scientifically made up, as in Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery? Who can doubt that it is * most effective remedy for the several diseases for which its ingredients are so highly recommended by the formoa writers on Materia Medicat It is in the cure of the more chroma or lingering, persistent, and obstinate cases of bronchial, laryngial and lung affections, attended by hoarseness ana severe cough, which if neglected or badly treated would generally have ran into consumption, that "Golden M™" ical Discovery ” has won the hignepraise from all who have observed. ia marvelous control over these and Kindred affections. It is no cheap compound made-up of trashy ingredien for free distribution, that curious people may experiment upon themsei as with the many fake nostrums so commonly sent out as "trial bottlesIt has a forty year record, embracinj many thousands of cures behind it. sold at a reasonable price and may found in all drug and medicine sto in this and many foreign countries. It will be seen from the above c extracts how well "Golden Medical covery” is adapted for the cure o ‘ blood diseases, as, scrofulous andl> affections, eruptions, blotches, pi®P . and kindred ailments; also that ■ equally good in all Catarrhal affec . ■■ no matter where seated, and io cases of indigestion, or dyspepsia, pid liver, or biliousness and , tonic and invigorator in all mann weaknesses, and in nervous d '■ and prostration the above ex amply show. , ,h e Much further information as , properties and uses of "Golden . d w Discovery” and Dr. Pierces Fa Prescription for weak women, found in a little booklet °^ e kj C ii from standard medical books will be mailed free to any adore® request, by letter or postal card, seu Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N- * • , p t> All the several ingredients Pierce’s medicines will be fou>- w the reading of this little be’ £‘ ci ; ng i have the strongest possime j ation j endorsements and recomme f O f ! for the cure of all the diset ffl . ! which these medicines are i mended. No other m< icin f' ri ,. al entpurposes have any such en ~'sdr I They are non-slcohoiic, non-sec > land reliable.