Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 5 July 1906 — Page 5

THE BESTCOUCHCUReI 7 A well-known Rochester lady L says: “I stayed in the Adirondack, L ' • away from friends and home, two • 7 winters before I found that by 7 L taking J Kemp’s Balsam | 2 I could subdue the cough that 2 7 drove me away from home and 7 w seemed likely to never allow me v 2 to live there in winter.” '* 7 Kemp’s Balsam will cure any 7 V cough that can be cured by any w 2” medicine. * 7 Sold by all dealers at 25c. and 50c. 7 BIDS FOR SUPPLYING COAL E. Burt Lenhart Asked for Favorable Action on County Orders Issued. The second day’s commissioners’ court -found the board busy, completing their labors by noon. The Luther Simon petition for a refund of taxes was granted,the amount allowed being $22.95. An extra well was instructed built in on the macadam roads known as the French township Central, Reynolds extension one" and Stegmeyer, and a five-inch drain on the BleekC road. The auditor was ordered to advertise for bids for supplying the public buildings of the county with coal. Three cars will be bought for the court house, five carl for the county infirmary and one ear for the county jail. Application was made for Margaret Moser for admittance to the institution for feeble minded at Fort Wayne. * The viewers’ report of the North St. Marys extension one, was ordered published. Liquor licenses were - granted to Michael MeGrff and Peter Burk, who do business at Geneva. ' A petition was filed and granted to the Geneva Masonic lodge; remitting taxes unlawfully assesed against them, they being a 'charitable- order and exempt from paying taxes on real estate owned and used for lodge purposes. 1 E. Burt Lenhart appeared before the board and asked motion upon soma old county orders issued during the life of his father as clerk of the Adams Circuit court. The orders are for fees in insanity eases, jury venires, marriage returns, etc. The board will not allow the claims, unless authorized by the court, The board of commissioners met in their regular July session and at once began to dispose of the business, the docket, however, is light. . Liquor licenses were granted to J. M. Ehrsam at. Linn Grove and Frank Bogner of this city. The Edward Staley petition for highway, which as been hanging fire for some time, was before-the board. The petitioners filed a motion that the damage as assessed bb bhaiged up to and paid out of the county treasury. The board has not actdd, on this petition. Bids Were ordered for the construction of the Ewell ipacadam road in Preble township, and the viewers’ report was ordered published on the Louis Wdrthman road. The Fort Wayne & Springfield Railway company presented a petition for a franchise over certain highways, which was granted. The date of sale for the Hartford ar 4 J’lench townships macadam roads ! s bf.cu changed to August 6. I Lu tier, the pitcher that was tried ; ~'ltcre ~ ag Ynst. the —Fort Wayne . tettm, was released last night r.i. I ■iigii'.'l with the Portland club. Mr. Butler.is a good pitcher and will , undoubtedly make good with the Portland fans. Ji We like best to call a * ] 1 , ;; SCOTT’S EMULSION J ( ( a food because it stands so era- J > , phatically for perfect nutrition. , 1 And yst in the matter of restor- ( » < • ing appetite, of giving new < 1 ’ *' strength to the tissues, especially 1 1 ’ [ to the nerves, its action is that •< 1 ' ’ ( of a medicine. ~ 1 ' . t . Send for freq «ampl«. 11 < ’ SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemi»t«, ( I' ( ( > 4®9*»>S Street, New York. . | ( I 50c. endfi.oo; all druggists. ' | - j i

MR. WILSON AS TREASURER' Auditing Committee Appointed—A . Wabash Construction Train Will Arrive Monday. , The fourth annual meeting of the stockholders of the Fort Wayne & Springfield Traction Company was held at the general manager’s office in this city Saturday. Practically every share of stock -was represented either in person or by proxy and the meeting was the most satisfactory one ever held by this prosperous organiaztion. The principal event of the Saturday meeting was the election of directors and officers for the ensuing year. The new board of directors as elected, consists of the following: W. H. Fledderjohann, John H. Koenig, B. A. Fledderjohann, M. H, Wilson, George B. Sidell, Herbert King and" E. B. Green. At the meeting of the directors’ board, officers were chosen, they being W. H. Fledderjohann, president and general manager; vice-president and general counsel, John H. Koenig; secretary, B. A. Fledderjohann; treasurer, M. H. Wilson. An auditing’ committee, with full power to act, was appointed, consisting of the following well known men: John Niblick, John D. Hale and John Schug. These officers are all well known here with the exception of M. H. Wilson, the new treasurer, who is vice-president and treasurer of the bond department of the Cleveland Trust Company of Cleveland, 0. The board of directors and the new offieals are entirely satisfactory to the stockholders and the interest manifested at Saturday’s meeting was the genuine kind, showing faith in the early completion of this great enterprise and the building of the road from Fort Wayne to Portland. Work on the power house, stables and construction of the road is being pushed along rapidly and everything possible is being done to hasten the time for the first car to start out of Decatur. A contract was closed today for S. B. Kleher, of Fort Wayne, tdtake charge of a construction train. He will arrive next Monday with a Wabash-engine and will take immediate charge of the work. Mr. Kleher is a expert at this line of work and will rush the same along at a rapid pace. The Fort Wayne-Springfield line will soon be a certainty, a real interurban and with headquarters in Decatur. —L- i; —— - - - - - THE FUNERAL OF MRS. STEEL ■ Held Here Yesterday—Remains Taken to Ohio Today. The funeral servees for Mrs. Wilson Steel were held from the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Lenhart, on Indiana street Sunday afternoon at four o’clock. The funeral party left for Fort Recovery on an early train this morning. The obituary notice as read by Rev. Alfred Fowler, who conducted the service, follows: Sarah J., daughter of Andrew and Susann'ah Harter, was born near NewMadison, Darke county, , Ohio, Aug. 23, 1850, and died June 30, 1906, age 55 years, 10 months and 7 days. In 1868 she was united in marriage to Wilspn J. Steel and to this union was four children: Frances L. Merriam, Harland A. Steel, Myrtle 8. Lenhart and Chauncey Steel, all of whom are living. She also leaves a loving husband and three brothers, one sister, one half-sister, and many relatives and frienfls to mourn their loss. She has lived a Christian all . her life and at time of her death was a member of the Presbyterian church. She has been a fajthful wife and mother, and her kindness wa’s appreciated by all. She was willing with all her sorrow, deprivations and hardhsips, to await God’s time. Among her last words were these comforting ones to the sorrowing ones about her bedside: I 'Come, all of you, with me for all is well an-TT am going home. ” Then she fell asleep as a child and we believe she is at rest, for God hath said: "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for their’s is the kingdom of heaven.” Dearest mother, thou hast left us, And thy loss we deeply feel, But 'tis God who hath bereft us, He can all our sorrows heal. Peaceful be thy silent slumbers, V Peaceful in the grave so low, Thou shalt no more join our numbers. Thou no more our songs shall know. Yet again we hope to meet you, When the days of life are fled. Then in Heaven we hope to greet you, Where no farewell tears are shed. CARD OF THANKS. To the kind and loving friends and neighbors who assisted us during the sufferings and death of our beloved companion and mother, we would say, "Please accept our most grateful thanks. ” WILSON STEEL and FAMILY.

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TWO WOMEN PLACED IN JAIL Sent up From Near Berne to Serve Sentences. E. Franz, of Berne, arrived Monday, having in charge two women, who will serve jail sentences. The women were Mary Clymer and Clara Booth, both so far driven in the depths of sin that they have no right to the name woman, so bur informant says. Mrs. Clymer was sentenced to jail for thirty days for cruel treatment of her children, whom, it is said she used most shameful. Clara Booth got a twenty-five day trip for trespass. The women live in the country near Berne and have been causing talk for some tme. Mrs. Clymer’s husband will apply for a divorce soon, it is stated. J. E. Merriweather the Indianapolis traveling man, who thought he had lost a grip between Decatur and Bluffton yesterday, found that he had left his- own grip at a hotel in Decatur and that it was a similar grip belonging to another man which he had seen on the train and thought his own. The rightful owner, of course, took his own grip off the train here and Merriweather found his in the hotel in Decatur:—Bluffton News. The Bluffton and Wells county men who attended the convention at Alexandria yesterday arrived home on the 6:51 train.. They were informed of the ball scores before reaching this city, calling up from Marion where they changed cars and getting the glad tidings first hand. Two or three Adams county men, who up until reaching Marion had maintained a cheerful mood, repaired at once to the buffet. — Bluffton Banper. A Certain Cure lor Aching Feet. Shake into your shoes Alien’s FootEase, a powder It cures Tired, Aching, Callous, Sweating, Swollen feet. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample FREE. Address Allen S. Olmstead, Leßoy, N. Y. MANY CHILDREN ARE SICKLY. Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for Children, used by Mother 'Gray, a nurse in Children’s Home. New York, breaks up Colds in 2 4hours, cure Feverishness Headache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Disorders, and Destroy Worms. At all druggists, 25c. Sampl mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmstead, I -eßoy. N. Y. . , » . . Ask for Allen’s Foot-Ease. A powder for swollen, tired, hot, smarting feet Sample sent FREE. Also Free Sample of the Foot-Ease Sanitary Corn-Pad, a new invention. Address Allen S. Olmstead, Leßoy, N. Y. A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES. Itching, Blind, Bleeding-or Protrudining Pies Druggists refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure any case, no matter of how long standing, in 6 to 14 days First application gives ease and rest, 50c If your druggist hasn’t it, send 50c in stamps and it will be forwarded postpaid by the Paris Medicine Co., S. Louis, Mo. Legal Advertising NOTICE. All taxes on Fourth, Monroe, Rh’gg, Fornax, Sixth Street Brick, Second and Winchester Streets and Bowers Alley Sewers, Brick alleys, Gregory Alley, Gay Alley Sewer; Krick, or Thirteenth Sewer, Marshall Street Sewer,. Meyer, Erwin and Miller Branch Sewers, William Harting Sewer and Elm Street. Sewer, are delinquent June Ist, and subject to penalty. W. J. ARCHBOLD, 149-3wks.daily Treasurer. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed receiver for the flrm of Loch, Dirkson & Co., of Decatur, Indiana. All accounts and notes due said* firm must be paid at once. - Persons knowing themselves indebted to said firm, will please call and pay same. Those having claims against said firm will please file same with me as provided by law. Accounts may be paid to receiver, or to Dore B. Erwin, attorney. ’ JAMES P. HAEFLING, Receiver. NOTICE FOR BIDS. Notice is hereby given that the Common Council of the City of Decatur, Indiana, wil receive sealed bids or proposals for the improvement of. First street commencing at the north side of Marshal sti-eet thence south to Adams street of the city of Decatur, Indiana, said improvement to be with modern paving blocks or bricks The improvemen of said. First street from Marshal street south to Adams street to be 30 feet wide according to the drawings and specifications now on file In the office of the city clerk of said city on the ■ 10th day of July, 1000, bids to be received between the hours of eight o’clock a. m. and six o’clock p. m. Each bidder must file with the clerk of said city. when he flies his bid, the usual statutory affidavit and deposit with him the sum of one thousand dollars, in money or certified check as a guaranty that he will accept said bid and carry out the construction of said work The successful bidder will be required to give bond with surety to be approved by the Common Council insuring the faithful completion of said work according to the contract The Common Council reserves .the. right to reject any and all bids and readvertise for bids for said improvement. This 20th day of June, 1906. CARL O. FRANCE, 16-3 t. City Clerk.

i Te Mothers In This Town. ■ Children who are delicate, feverish and cross will get immediate relief from Motner Gray’s Sweet Powders for Children. They cleanse the stomach, i act on the liver, making a .sickly child strong and healthy. A certain cure for worms. Sold by all druggists, 25 cents. Sample FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmstead, Leßoy, N. Y .A small blaze started in the rear of the Burt hotel at 10:33 Friday" even T ing. Some person carelessly threw a lighted cigar in a corner which ignited the floor. Dale Peoples, who ’ was working as night clerk, happened to smell something burning and going to the rear found a good sized blaze. With some help he tore up part of the flooring and soon had the blaze extinguished. No great damage was done. A FRIGHTENED ACTRESS. Whm Mallbran Ran For Her Llfo From Her Father. Malibrati was an exceptional woman as well as a great singer, and she had an interesting and spontaneous temperament. The daughter of Garcia, she bad a harsh and difficult master in her-own father. When she was sixteen he one day came to her room and without any kind of preparation said to her, “You will make your first appearance with me on Saturday in ‘Otello.’ ” It gave her exactly six days for preparation. The child, terrified nearly into speechlessucss. stammered that she could not possibly do it—what be asked was impossible. But Garcia could take no contradiction. All he answered was: “Yen’ll make your first appearance on Saturday, and be perfect. If not, in the last scene, when I am supposed to plunge my dagger into your breast. I’ll do so in real earnest.” The frightened gill ..had to make thb best of it. Her success was absolute, but one little piece of realism in her acting at the end was a delicious though entirely unconscious piece of retaliation upon her father for a rather brutal method. Her Desdemona had been exquisite; she had made her what she was herself, a child, Innocent and submissive and adoring. But in the last act; when Othello strode toward her with uplifted dagger, la Malibrnn, truly frightened out of her wits, ran away from him and made for windows and doors, frantically trying to escape. When her father at lastcaught hoM of ber, so real had the whole thing become that, seizing the hand with which he was supposed to murder her, she bit it till it bled. Garcia gave a cry of pain, which ths sudience took for a ery of rage, and th< act ended In deafening applause so« father and daughter. ■>'The incideqH reveals la .Mallbran She was pever, in one sense of tho word, an actress at all. There was no studied counterfeit of emotions, but'* woman with an extraordinary power of losing herself in the emotions of others.—T. P.’s Weekly. FORCED TO EAT BOOKS. ■t. ■sauui Bela** Who Woro Com*ello4 to Devour Literature. Among the causes that contribute to the destruction of books, says an Italian writer, Americo ScArlatti, there is one very curious one that may be called bibliophagia. No reference is intended to the mice that once destroyed In England an entire edition of .Castell’s “Lexicon Heptaglotton,” but to human beings who have literally devoured books. In 1370 Bamabo Visconti compelled two papal delegates to eat the bull of excommunication which they had brought him," together with its silken cdtds’and leatlen seal. As the bull was written on parchment, says the Scientific American, not paper, It was all the more difficult to digest Y A similar anecdote was related by Oelrleh in his “Dlssertatio de Bibliothecarum Librerum Fatis” (1756) of an Austrian general who had signed e note for 2,000 florins and when It fell due compelled his creditors to eat It. The Tartars, when books fall into their possession, eat them that they may acquire the knowledge contained in them. A Scandinavian writer, the author of _a political book, was compelled to '•boose between being beheaded or eat-

SOUTHWEST The Land of 810 CROPS and PROSPERITY Are you making as much off ’your farm as you ought? No doubt vou 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 smdll farm, or perhaps you are renting one and paying a good share of what you 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 $3 to $lO an acre. This is increasing in value each year. SEE THE SOUTHWEST‘AT SMALL COST A trip to the Southwest will convince you that your best interests lav in settling there The trip can be made at very little expense. On the first and third ‘Tuesdays of each mo nth 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 you are interested in. Write at once for free copies of books describing this wonderful counttv and for full information about cost of tickets etc. L. O. Schaefer, T.P. A. Cotton Belt Route 614 Traction Term. Bdfl. Indianapolis, Ind

tng his manuscript ooneo in orotn. Isaac Volmar, who wrote some spicy ’ satires against Bernard, duke of Saxony, was not allowed the courtesy of the kitchen, but was forced to swallow them uncooked. Still worse was the fate of Philip Oldenburger. a jurist of great renown. . who was condemned not only to eat a pamphlet of his writings, but also to be flogged during bls repast, with orders that the flogging should not cease until he had swallowed the last crumb. Terror Saved Her. A tale of a paralytic and a stroke of lightning: For twenty-two years a woman had been paralyzed, unable to leate her room. One night when she happened to be alone In the house a fierce storm broke. The psor woman' was terrified by the thunder and the blinding glare of the lightning. With an effort of which no one had believed her capable-she struggled from her bed and to the house of a neighbor. Barely had she reached safety when the place »he had just left was struck by lightning. The room in which she had lived so long was rent in two and everything In it was burned or smashed. Power of locomotion had been restored to the cripple just in time to save ber life.—Chicago News. Her Advantage. Mistress (after many remonstrances on unpunctuality)—Really, Mary, you must try to be more punctual about serving the meals. When they are late your master blames me. Mary— Ah, well, mum, of course I can go, but you’re a prisoner for life! — London Punch. Suspicion!. Mr. Bilkins (looking up from the paper)—The eminent physician, Dr. Greathead, says there Is no exercise so conducive to health In woman as ordinary housework. Mrs. Bilkins— Huh! I’ll bet he’s married.—Tlt-Blts. Apples Improve Cigars. Possibly the best way to improve cigars Is to place very thin slices of apple between them. This is a familiar practice among connoisseurs. Any old apple will do.—New York Press. ' ' Unfortunate inventors. “Trevethick,” said an inventor !■ a bitter tone, “Invented th'e'first' strain' locomotive. He exhibited it in London on a circular track. It ran fifteen miles an hour. Trevethick. though, made nothing out of his invention. People laughed at lt: They'd have none -of-X All Trevethick accomplished In his life was to pave the way for Stephenson’s success. He died in poverty, poor fellow. “Koenig Invented the sten n printing press. His partner, Betislc ’. cheated him. Koenig, to support l;>'e, had to sell his, patents. He died poot*smichinist, working for about , <: x a week. "Whitney, the inventor of the cotton gin, didn’t make a cent out es his idea. “Howe, the Inventor of the sewing machine, sold his patent rights for a passage to England. He was a mill hand when his machine was putting millions In the pockets of other men. “Jacquard, *the Inventor of the famous loom, might have become a billionaire. This unselfish Frenchman though, gave his Invention to the government, and all he got In return—all he asked in return—was a pension of SI,OOO a year.” VEGETABLES AS MEQICINE. Asparagus stimulates the kidneys. Water cress Is an excellent blood p> rlfier. * Parsnips possess the same virtues at sarsaparilla. Carrots are good for those having r tendency to gout. Celery contains sulphur and helps to .ward off rheumatism. Celery is a nerve tonic; onions alsc are a tonic for the nerves. Tomatoes are good for a torpid liver, but should be avoided by gouty people. Beets are fattening and good for people who want to put on flesh; so are potatoes, Lettuce has a soothing effect on the nerves and is excellent for sufferers from insomnia. Spinach has great aperient qualities and is far better than medicine for sufferers from constipation

COMING DR.W.TUCKER.M.D Indiana’s Leading Specsalist in Chronic and Private Diseases of Men and Women. , PRESIDENT Fort Wayne Sanitarium 221 W. Wayne St. fort Wavne, Indiana. Will Be At The Murray Hotel Monday, July 9 And Every Four Weeks Thereafter. Sixteen Years of Success. More Genuine Mecical Diplomas Than Any Other Specialist in the States. Absolute Cures. I Never Disappoint’My Patients, T Fulfill Every Promis and Never Hold Out False Reports. I TREAT SUCCESSFULLY Catarrh, Brohchitis, Lung Trouble, E e Diseases, Headache, Deafness, N uralgia, Rheumatism, Paralysis, Heart Disdase, Cancer. Tumors, Goiter, Rupture, Epilepsy, Appandictis, Sterility., Constipation, Piles, Fistula, Skiu disease, Eceema, Hydrocele. Faricoccle, Lost Vitality, Weak, i Nerves, Blood Poison, Liquor Hab ti Opium Habit, Bladder Trouble, Kiid i nej Trouble, Ssomach and Liver i Trouble. WOMEN troubled with irregular 1 suppnessed or painful menstruation, 1 weakness, leucorrhoe, displacement or ulceration of the womb, that bear-ing-down feeling, inflammation of i the ouaries, backach, bloating, [flatu--1 lence,] general debility, indigestion 1 or nervout prostraiion, or are beset wite such symptoms as dizziness, faintness lassitude, excitability, irritability, nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, hot flashes and tirtd, worn-out feeling, should call and I will explain my home treatment to them. I Guarantee to Cure in the Shortest Possible Time. BLOODPOISON. My treatment for this :errible disis tho best know n to the Medical Science. I have yet to find the tare that will not yield to my treatment. The disease rapidly disapyears and a cure is certain in every case. NERVOUS DEBILITY. Are you suffering from that peculiar weakness that makes life a bore? I treat and cure thousands of cases every year. The nerves are strengthed, every portion of the body made stronger-, and perfect health and strength result from my treatment. ' VARICOCELE. Any sufferer from this disease knows its terrible effects upon the mind and body. Unless cured it results in some special weakness. I cure vari cocele speedily and without operation, STRICTURE Is usually accompanied by some other trouble, such as inflammation of the prostate gland, kieney orbladder trouble. My treatment is a true specific and quiokly removes every vestige of the trouble, leaving the portions with normal strength. KIDNEY, BLADDER AND PROSTATIC DISEASES. I cure all irritation, frequent desire, stoppage, pain in the back, brick dust sediments, scanty flow and ca tarrhal conditions. If you are troubled, you should consult me at once, because Bright’s Disease may de velop, unless you receive the attention of a skilled specialist. PILES AND FISTULA. I cure without the knife, cautery or operation, No pain or detention from business. My treatment is guaranteed to cure the most severe cases. REMEMBER, DR. TUCKER Will cure you at your borne in the shortest time possible. His treatment will bring back your old time vigor and make you yourself again. If you are suffering from anv chronic or private disease, come and consult him free, and find out just what is the matter, xlf your case is curable, he will cure you. If not he will honestly tell you so. He has cured hundreds right here in Adams county.