Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 31 May 1906 — Page 5

OCEAN LINER DELAYED. — Barnacles Impeded Her Progress, Across the Atlantic. This was the excuse recently given by the officers of a big ocean lines which reached her destination three days overdue. The power was there, but her progress was retarded by the barnacles which had gathered on the bottom and‘sides of this great vessel. In referring to the matter our local druggist, a member of the firm of Smith, Yager & Fait, remarked “This "instance has a parallel case in the field of medicine. It is old-fashioned cod liver oil, which contains medicinal properties capable of splendid work as a body-building, strength-cre-ating medicine, yet on account of the system-clogging, greasy oil which it contains, its medicinal powers is impeded and its value lost. Yet we know the power is there, and it has remained for two great French chemists to find away to separate these medicinal, health-produc-ing elements from the oil bpd give us Vinol. Vinol actually contains all the medicinal curative and strengthcreating properties of cod liver oil, but contains not a drop of oil to upset the stomach and retard its work. In other words, the barnacles have been removed from this famous medicine by us. _ We ask every run-down, nervous, debilitated, aged or weak person in Decatur, and every person suffering > from stubborn colds, hanging-op coughs,. bronchitis or incipient consumption to try Vinol on our guarantee to return the money if it fails.” bmiih, Yager & Falk, druggists. CONTRACT FOB CEMENT WORK * At Library—Room| will be Frescoed By an Artist. The Library committee today awarded the contract for the building of a cement sidewalk to Frank .Hawkins. The only other bidder# were Hoffmap & Butler. The walk extends from the steps to the curb. A decorator will arrive from Indiananpolis tomorrow to figure on frescoing the wals and the building is to be complete and furnished by July Ist. It will be a beautiful and well furnished library. $ ■ -4, Quite a delegation of Adams county. Democrats will go to Indianapolis next week to root for the nomination of Judge R. K. Erwn for judge of the supreme court. Frank Christman, a former resident of Bluffton, but now of. Indianapolis, was talking insurance with a number of our people today. He represents the Indianapolis Life Insurance company.

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Consumption <j There is no specific for consumption. Fresh air, exercise, nourishing food and Scott’s Emulsion will come pretty near curing it, if there is anything to build on. Millions of people throughout the world are living and in good health on one lung. CJ From time immemorial the doctors prescribed cod liver oil for consumption. Os tourse the patient could not take it in its old form, hence | it did very little good. They 3 can take ! SCOTT’S EMULSION I and tolerate it for a long | time. There is no oil, not excepting butter, so easily digested and absorbed by the ' system as cod liver oil in the form of Scott’s Emulsion, and that is the reason it is so helpful in consumption where £, its use must be continuous. 9 We will send you a sample free. «Be sure that thia picture in the form of VMM a label is on the wrapper of every bottle of Emulsion you buy. • HR Scott & Bowne its Chemists Vi lIL. v 409 Pearl Street New York ’ joe. and >1; alFdracci(t)

George Tricker is talking coal to I beat the band, and is chalking down several advance orders for the Jackson Hill brand. His company did a profitable business last year, and this year they propose to double the dose. At the meeting of the members of the Prohibition State committee and the state candidates it was decided that an aggressive campaign with a sixty-day “whirlwind finish” should be the program. Jonas Neuenschwander was in from his French township farm yesterday and said his neighbors were mostly interested in ihacadam “road improvement, they hoping to land two extensions to be constructed yet this summer. The Fort Wayne & Springfield interurban line received seven ear loads of steel this morning from Pittsburg, which they axe unloading and distributing along their right-of-way. The work along this line is moving smoothly. The fanners of many counties of Indiana are complaining about the cost of maintaining ditches under the law passed by the last legislature, Which provides that all ditches be cleaned under the supervision of the county surveyor. The voters of St. Marys township are lining up for a macadam road election, which will take place Friday. They will vote on seven roads, and should they carry and be built, St. Marys wll be the best macadamized township! in Adams county. A private wireless station owned and operated by a boy offered the sole means of communication between the United States naval station and theoutside world during the San Francisco fire. Evidently all the boys in American are not playing ball all of the time. The Russian government has informed the state department that it. has directed the local officials at Batum, to do everything in their power to secure the arrest and punishment of the murderers of Vice Consul Stuart at Batum last week. Several arrests have been made. As the result of a congressional investigation of the extravagance in printing government documents a large saving is promised. A joint committee of house and senate conducted the investigation and has just issued its regulations, putting new printing orders into effect. Jerry Kelley, from *Blue Creek township, was arrested Sunday night by Policeman Reynolds and wafe lodged in jail on a charge of public intoxication. He was brought up before the mayor this morning and plead guilty and was fined a dollar and costs. He stayed the docket and was dismissed.

John Johns, while working this morning at the carpenter trade ran a hard pine splinter in the .thumb on his right had, which had to be cut out by Dr. J. M. Miller. The splinter entered the thumb at the first joint and it was impossible to move his thumb at that joint. The injury is nothing serious.

Mr. W. H. Eledderjohann, president of the Fort Wayne & Springfield Traction Company, was in this city last night on business. Mr. Fledderjohann states that work on the road is progressing? favorably. The forces are engaged at present in distributing ties and setting poles. —Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. The Rome City correspondent to the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette said in Sunday’s, paper: Secretary Charlie Weaver has succeeded in having the railroad company place two electric lights on the mainland, one near the Larwill cottage and one at Hensley’s Point. This will give much needed illumination in a thickly'settled district. County Superintendent Opliger has received the list of school books for another year. The state board has adopted a new spelling book, English two books, and physiology and Hygiene. The United States history was readopted. The state board will issue questions for kindergarten teachers, for the June, July and August examinations. Also special questions for supervisors of music and drawing. Mrs. Dr. C. E. Stephenson, of Indianapolis, form?rly Miss Blanche Miller, who has been ill for some time, was operated on at St. Vincent j Hospital, Indianapolis, Saturday . morning. The operation was very sucIcessful and she is improving rapidly. This will be good news to her many friends here,' who all will wish her a speedy recovery. The railroads will sell tickets to the Democratic state convention at Indianapolis for one fare plus 25 cents for the round trip. The tickets will be sold June 5 and 6 and are good for the return passage until and including June 8, the day after the eon(vention. A great gathering is expected in Indianapolis.

I An Anderson paper says that the ‘hited S<a e- beasurer vante •"•or * | ten dollar gold certificates. There i are several people in Decatur in' the same fix. The Young Matrons’ Club will entertain the cast who will present “Hick’ry Farm.” A buffet luncheon will be given them at the home of Mrs. Tom Reid, immediately following the presentation of this clever drama at the Bosse Opera House, Friday evening. Anticipating and discounting the effects of the railroad rate bill, which demands a separation of the railroad and coal interests, J. Pierpont Morgan, so Wall street learns, has been entrusted with the organization of a coal combine with a capitalization which, it is believed, may reach fully $1,000,000,000, outstripping even the steel trust in the merging of industrial interests. Although he risked his life in the effort to save a drowning comrade, Arthur T. Reeder, of the marine corps, will not receive a medal from the treasury department as a reward for his valor, because the medals are only for deeds of heroism in the “navigable waters of the United States,” and the Chagres river, in the canal zone, is held not to be within the provisions of the law. The great American Fourth of July will be celebrated in Berne .Just because Berne has had no big celebration in six years is no sign that its citizens have become less patriotic, but the coming Fourth will show that the right kind of patriotism exists in the hearts of our people. The day will be celebrated —truly celebrated in the • right manner and spirit—as never before in the history of Berne.—Berne Witness. Mrs. Sue R. Beals, of Fort Wayne, past president of the Indiana department of the Ladies of the G. A., R., . was printed during the recent state encampment at Lafayette with a handome’ emblematic badge by the state organization in recognition of her devoted services to the order. The badge bears the insignia of the order. It is richly wrought and beautifully inlaid in enamel and gold with two pendants. 4-cting on an opinion rendered by Attorney General Charles W. Miller, Auditor of State Warren Bigler has decided that for Indiana, at least, the days of the so-called “grave-yard” insurance is a thing of the past. The attorney general has ruled that such organizations as burial associations, ' are, in effect, insurance organziations 1 which, because they do not come un- ! der the jurisdiction of any state department, are operating without legal right. Judge Dodge, of the Elkhart Circuit Court has. issued an official order denying newspaper reporters accesss to all the court dockets and the paper for cases filed and orders the reporters to remain outside the bar rail in the court room and remain in the lobby of the clerk’s office. No explanation accompanied the order, but it is said the court took offense at it regarded as a premature publication of criminal docket news. The order is without precedence in Indiana. An exchange says there is a movement on foot by prominent egg dealers to sell eggs by the pound and the old method of selling eggs by the dozen promises to soon give way to the weight plan. This change is due to the fact of the different sizes of eggs. In eastern markets now the eggs are sorted and if the smaller sizes sell at 15 cents per dozen the next size sells at 16 cents. The new method of selling by the pound is appealing to the public and no doubt will soon be put in effect. The wiseacres who compose the DeCatur city council deserve a leather medal if the story told on them is true. It is claimed that a week or so ago a small fire broke out and the department discovered that all the hose on the hose carts was in bad condition. At its next regular meeting the council is said to have passed a rule to the effect that ten days before each fire, the fire department thoroughly test the hose in the department and see that it was in good working order. —Bluffton Banner. Mr. Cleveland has paid, in an article in the Youths’ Companion, a tribute that was long due from some distinguished and capable hand, to the American country lawyer. He shows that eighteen but of twenty-five presidents have been country lawyers, in the senate of the fifty-eighth Congress there were 37 country lawyers and sixteen city lawyers out of a total membership of ninety, and in the house of representatives, one hundred and ninety-five country lawyers and sixty-two city lawyers out of a membership of three hundred and eightsix. Ask for Allen’s Foot-Base. A powder for swollen, tired, hot, smarting feet Sample sent FREE. Also Free Sample "bf the Foot-Ease Sanitary I Corn-Pad, a new invention. Address (Alien S. Olmstead, Leßoy, N. Y. ? r ;' ? ♦ ’ ■. '\

BRIDGE LETTING I — Macadam Road Election on Friday SETTLEMENT SHEET COMPLETE Board of Commissioners Meet Monday—Macadam. Road BasLicss Hai Right-of-Way. Sol Carter was here Tuesday evening looking; over the specifications for three bridges. He represents the Atitca Bridge Company, and has placed several bridges n the county. Bids for them will be opened Monday. C. W. Yager, one of the commissioners for the macadam road election in St. Marys tpwnship, was in the city yesterday, and arranged for ballots. Seven roads will be voted on, the Piqua & Fort Wayne, Pleasant Mills, Decatur & Willshire, J. W. Broadbeck, E. W, Dailey, Irvin Carter and Grant Strickler roads. The election will occur Friday. Auditor Lewton has completed the settlement sheet for the spring collection of taxes, and the same is ready for the approval of the state auditor. Treasurer Lachot will go to Indianapolis next week to make settlement with the state for the amount due from Adams county to' the'different funds of the state. He will be among the first to make a settlement. ' r Harlo Mann has filed with the auditor his bond which calls for $5,000. The bond is given as superintendent of the Pleasant Valley & Oak Grove Macadam road, the contract for which was let at the last session of the commissioners’ court. The board of commissioners will meet in their regular June session, next Monday. As usual, macadam roads will overshadow all other business that will come before them. Eleven roads are ready to submit to contractors. Three roads will be sold, the Monroe Township Central number two, E. S. Moses and Geneva, Ceylon & Wabash Townshift. Seven petitions'will be* presented; they being? J. L. Aspy number one, Magley & Preble, Louis Worthman, North St. Marys, Hartford & French Township line, Geneva, Ceylon & Wabash Township extension two, From this it can be easily see that macadam roads have the right-of-way in commissoners’court. ■ r —: — APPOINTMENT OF EXECUTOR. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned have been appointed executors of the etate of Joshua Bright, late of Adnms Conntv. deceased. The estate is probably solvent ... i GEORGE H. BRIGHT, NELSON W. ABBOTT, Excutors. Merryman & Suttpn, Attorneys. May 28th, 1906. 13-3wks. SHERIFFF’S SALE. State of Indiana, Adami County, ss In the Adams Circuit Court of Adams County, Indiana. The German Building Loan Fund and Savings Association. vs. Jennie Case, Norman Case and William H. Niblick. No. 2602. By virtue of an order of sale to me directed by the Clerk of the Adams Circuit Court of said County and State, I have levied upon the real estate hereinafter mentioned and will expose for sale at public auction at the east door of the Court House in the City of Decatur, Adams County, Indiana, between the hours of 10 o’clock A. M., and 4 o’clock'P. M., on the 22nd day of June, 1906, the rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, of the following described real estate, situated in Adams County, Indiana, to-wlt: Commencing at the north-west corner of inlot number. 758, in Wm.. H. Niblick’s subdivision of out-lot number 26 and part of out-lot number 25, thence south 132 feet, thence east 84 feet to the west side of Russel street thence north 34 degrees east, along said street 52 feet, thence north-west 148 feet to the place of beginning, comprising inlot number 757 and 758 in said sub-di-vision in the town (now city) of Decatur, in Adams County, Indiana. And on failure to realise therefrom the full amount of judgment, interest thereon and costs, I will at the same time and in the same manner aforesaid, offer for sale, the fee simple of the above described premises. Taken as the property of Jennie Case and Norman Case to satisfy said orde this 2«tn day or May, 1»O6. ALBERT A. BUTLER, 13-3wks. Sheriff. . o To Mothers in This Town. Children who are delicate, feverish and cross will get immediate relief from Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for j Children. They cleanse the stomach, | act on, the liver, making a sickly child j strong and healthy. A certain cure for worms. Sold by all druggists, 25 cents. »Sample FREE. Address, Allen S. Olm--1 stead, Leßoy, N. Y '

SOUTHWEST The Land of BIG CROPS and PROSPERITY Are you making as much off your farm as jpu ought? No doubt you are making all you can. The trouble is the land costs too much. It takes too much money to buy a big farm, and so you are trying to make a living on a small farm, or perhaps you are renting one and paying a good share of what yon raise, in rent. Wouldn’t it be better to go where the price of good land is so little that you can own a big farm—where every acre of the ground is|working for you and all you raise is paying good profits. There are thousands of acres ol fertile land in the Southwest along the line of the Cotton Belt Route that can be bought from 83 to $lO an acre. This land is increasing in value each year. ______ SEE THE SOUTHWEST AT SMALL COST A trip to the Southwest will convince you that your best interests lay in settling there The trip can be made at very little expense. On the first and third. Tuesdays of each month you can purchase a round trtp ticket to any point in the Southwest on or via the Cotton Belt Route at very low rates. Stop-overs will be allowed for you to examine any locality yon are interested in. Write at once for free copies of books describing this wonderful country and for full information about cost of tickets etc. L.O. Schaefer, T.PA. Cotton Belt Route Trectkm Term. Bdg. Indianapolis, Ind ■■■■■■■■■■m

APPELLATE COURT DECISION County Officers’ Bond not Liable for Illegal Fees. The appellate court yesterday decided that sureties on a county officer ’s bond are not liable to the county for illegal fees collected by him and not paid into the county treasury. It was shown that Cincinnatus B. Williams had paid over all the legal fees which he collected as clerk o Hamilton county, but he had collected and kept $2,965 of fees which the law forbade him to charge. The court says that however little right Williams had to the money, it clearly did not belong to the county, and even if the persons who paid the fees slept on their rights until they had no right to proceed against the clerk either civilly or criminally, this would not enlarge the rights of the county to claim money which never belonged to it. COURT NEWS Default as to the defendants was "noted in the case of John Owens et al., vs. Franklin Adams, et al., a suit to quiet title. The jury reported this morning to hear the trial of Belus E. Van Camp vs. Christ. Hoffstetter, for S7)O damages, but the cause was continued and the jury dismissed. The last will and testament of Joshua Bright was probated Monday morning. After providing for the payment of debts and funeral expenses, he bequeaths to his beloved wife, Nancy Bright, all his real estate and personal property, so long as she remained his widow. Should she remarry, she is to have SSOO and the household goods. After the death of Mrs. Bright, the property is to be divided equally among the ten children, and the heirs of one child, deceased, each receiving the one-elev-enth part, each child to be charged with what money they have heretofore been advanced, as set out in the will. No division is to be made of either money or property until Mrs. Bright dies or re-marries. Should any of the children die without heirs, their share is to be distributed among the others equally. George H. Bright and Nelson W. Abbot are named as executors. The will was written March 17, 1906. Attorney Dave E. Smith as attorney for George W. Nichols has filed suit against Clara D. Sheets, administrator of the estate of William Sheets, on a claim demanding $1,625.59. Nichols had to pay a note for this amount on which he was surety. Flint Stone Company vs. Calvin Miller,’ et ah, suit on account, demand $1,000; appaj’ance for the defendants by D. D. Heller & Son and A. P. Beatty; rule to answer. The case of the Cincinnati, Richmond & Fort Wayne Railroad Co., and G. R. & I. vs. The Fort Wayne & Springfield Traction Co., an injunction suit, was sent to Jay county today on motion for a change of venue. Judge Zollars, of Fort Wayne and Assistant General Manager Hudson, of the G. R. & L railroad, were in court today looking’ after railroad business of a legal matter. Business at the court room continues rather light, though there remains but ten days of the present term. A few cases are set for trial next week A marriage license has been issued to Ezra Sprunger and Rosa S. Beer. Mr. Sprunger is a photographer.

Next week is the closing one of the April term and a ten weeks’ vacation follows. Judge Erwin Monday, morning discharged the petit jury with the thanks of the. court. Several eases will be heard this week and next, but no jury will likely be used. E. Burt Lenhart vs. J. Roman Hubacheck et al., affidavit of non-resi-dence filed, publication ordered, returnable at the September term. Gottfried Burry was granted naturalization papers today. H" y Emil Franz appearing for him. Burry is a resident of Berne. He was formerly a citizen of Switzerland and came to this country in 1883 and first declared his intention of becoming a citizen of the United States April 2, 1888. Fred Schafer, et al., vs. Christ. Beery, suit on account, $300; partial appearance by Heller & Son for defendant.-'' ' George W. Bolds vs. The National Supply Co., et al., plaintiff withdraws motion for change of venue and dismissed cause; have asked to withdraw complaint. Kuebler & Moltz Co., vs. J. K. Niblick, defendant ruled to answer within five -days. State on the relation of Tray Huey vs. Henry Decker, trustee, plaintiff ruled to reply within five days. 1 ’ , Hurless & Brown vs. Theodore A. Hendricks, demurrer overruled; answer filed; set for trial, Friday, June Bth. Cincinnati, Richmond & Ft. Wayne Railroad Company and G. R. & I. vs. The Ft. Wayne & Springfield Co, injunction; demurre to complaint; set for hearig on demurrer, Tuesday, May 29. Sarah J. Steel, guardian for Morse E. Steele, et al., filed an inventory, which was examined and allowed. Gottlieb F. Gerber ,of tins township and was gr«* -ted nalualization papers today. He was born in Switzerland, but came to this country twenty-three years ago. His first papers were taken out in 1884. At- i forney Franz appeared for him. A marriage license has been isused to Otto Bryan, an oil man from Wells county, Heller, of this county 6 . .41 3 The ease of Pierce Oil Company and James H. Witty vs. Albert A. Butler, sheriff, a replevin suit, is set J for trial next Thursday, May 31st. Attorney A.' P. Beatty represents the |g defendant and Shaffer Peterson and W. S. Taylor the plaintiff. The latter is the ex-governor of Kentucky, whose connection with the Goebel murder, made him an exile from his. state. He will no doubt prove an at- . traction in this civilized community. O| In the case of Andrew J. Smith vs.. Sabin Smith, et al., to set aside deed. and mortgage; all depostions were ordered published; motion to submit cause to the jury. . J! -‘J Gustave A. Brandt, et al., vs. Rosa * E. Smitley, motion for change of •/' venue from county sustained; cause sent to superior court at Fort Wayne for trial. S. E. Hurless, et al., vs. Theodore ( - j A. Hendricks, on note, $400; demur- . ' rer filed to. complaint. ; , v ii In the cases of John S. Bowers vs. »* J. Q. Neptune et al., Margaret J. Louthan, et al., William McConnehey, ~J| et al., and Eduard Johnson, Elm yda street sewer assessments, the plain- d tiff filed a motion for change of venue -'j which .was granted end the cases sent to the Allen County Circuit Court for trial. Judge Branyan;of Huntington, | who had been appointed .special judge in these cases, granted the change.